Print Making
Three Remnants
- Item Number
- 144
- Estimated Value
- 400 USD
- Opening Bid
- 133 USD
Item Description
Monoprint
14 1/2" x 29 3/4"
John Avakian holds a BFA and MFA from Yale University. His monoprints have been in national and regional shows and have received awards including Best in Show, Attleboro Arts Museum, and first prize, Blanche Ames National Juried Show. His works are in many private, public, and corporate collections. He will have a solo show entitled Family Biography in the AAM’s Community Gallery in April 2014.
The monoprint “Three Remnants” submitted for auction is from a series of prints called “Lightness of Being”. The title comes from a poem I wrote afterwards to describe my newly found connection to feathers and later to leaves. The poem explores nature’s disconnected forms as a metaphor in a struggle to renew ones self as an individuating form.
The image of these weathered and damaged feathers came to me as they were being discarded. They were inked in black and placed on a lightly painted gray aluminum plate. A small sheet of BFK paper was placed over the plate and feathers and run through the press leaving behind their authentic profiles and surface details on the paper. At a later time these remnants of nature began to heal and find there way back to life, thus we see them with a hint of color appearing in an otherwise darkened image.
Item Special Note
Any high bid that does not follow the listed bidding increments will be nullified and voided.
This item can be shipped via UPS or picked up at the Attleboro Arts Museum from November 5 – 9, 2013. The Museum is open Tuesday – Saturday from 10-5pm. The winning bidder is responsible for all shipping and handling costs. The artist retains all reproduction and copyrights.
Donated By:
John Avakian
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