Description: ROSS BLECKNER (b. 1949, NY) 'Dream and Do', 1997 SIGNED Limited Edition PrintBeautiful 13-color screen-print on wove paper. Published by Lococo Mulder, Saint Louis, MO. Dimensions: 24" x 23" (61 x 58 cm) sheet, 17" x 17" (43 x 43 cm) image. Edition size: 250 (plus Arabic and Roman numeral AP's). SIGNED by artist (lr) and numbered XXX/XXX (ll) in pencil on recto. Reverse stamped '© 1997 Ross Bleckner, Lococo Mulder Fine Art Publisher'. Excellent condition with no visible defects (never framed or displayed). NOTE: the print for sale is UNFRAMED (shown are several framed examples. Ross Bleckner paints images that are visually dramatic and subtly representative of the artist's interest in human confrontations with tragedies. Time—and, by extension, mortality—has been a prevailing theme of Bleckner's work since he began exhibiting in the late 1970s. Much of Bleckner's work deals with the AIDS crisis and "the idea that something beautiful, like a cell, can mutate into something treacherous." His large-scale paintings depict flowers that are profuse and brightly colored, yet deliquesced, scraped away, and abstracted until they become blurs of paint, birds, and human cells floating in dark color fields, as though they were stars cast into the night sky. This prepossession with light and mortality—expressed through symbolic organic forms and painterly abstraction—is a theme that runs throughout Bleckner's thirty-year body of work. Emerging as a prominent artist in New York during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Bleckner’s paintings are an investigation of change, loss, and memory, often suggesting meditations on the body, health and disease, much like a memento mori. “The idea that the body is so perfect, until it’s not perfect. It’s a fragile membrane that separates us from disaster.” His immersive paintings, whether pure abstraction of stripes or dots, or more representational renderings of birds, flowers, and brains, elicit a powerful hypnotic and dizzying effect. To this day, Bleckner is the youngest artist to receive a midcareer retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, at the age of 45. His paintings can be found in many major museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art and in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, as well as numerous exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Reina Sofia, Madrid; L.A. County Museum, Los Angeles; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; and Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:2024 'Ross Bleckner: Mashber', Petzel Gallery, New York, NY2023 'Made in New York: Ross Bleckner, Donald Sultan and Hunt Slonem', Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco, CA2022 'Ross Bleckner: New Works', Carling Dalenson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 'Ross Bleckner: Sehnsucht', Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2021 'Ross Bleckner: Heart in the corner of the room', Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 'Ross Bleckner: Paralipsis', Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium 'Invisible Sun' (group collection exhibition), The Broad, Los Angeles, CA 'The Shadow of the Sun: Ross Bleckner and Zachari Logan', Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY2020 'Ross Bleckner: Text Me', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 'Ross Bleckner: 25 to Life' (group exhibition), Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2019 'Ross Bleckner: Recent Works', Galerie Frank Fluegel, Nürnberg, Germany 'Ross Bleckner: Overhead and Below', Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany 'How To Survive The Present | A Solo Show By Ross Bleckner', Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens, Greece 'Ross Bleckner: Pharmaceutria', Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY2018 'Ross Bleckner', W&K Palais, Vienna, Austria 'Ross Bleckner: Time of Disquiet', Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 'Ross Bleckner: Time of Disquiet', Maruani Mercier Gallery, Paris, France2017 'Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s' (group exhibition), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 'Ross Bleckner: Find a peaceful place where you can make plans for the future.', Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX2016 'Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle', Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY 'Ross Bleckner: Forever Overhead', Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 'Ross Bleckner: Prayer Rugs', Third Room, New York, NY2015 'Ross Bleckner', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO2014 'Ross Bleckner: Black, Bird, Brain', Maruani & Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 'Ross Bleckner', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY2012 'Ross Bleckner: Birds & Brains & Flowers', Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany 2011 'Ross Bleckner: Paintings', Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2010 'Ross Bleckner: Meditation and Time', Galleria Mazzoli, Modina, Italy 'Until Now: Collecting the New (1960–2010)' (group exhibition), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN 'Ross Bleckner', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY 2009 'Ross Bleckner: New Work', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 2008 'Ross Bleckner', Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA 'Genesis – The Art of Creation' (group exhibition), Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland 'Empires and Environments' (group exhibition), Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 2007 'Ross Bleckner', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY 'The Spirit of an Open Mind: Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, and Jonathan Lasker', Galerie Felix Ringel, Düsseldorf, Germany 'Ross Bleckner', Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich, Switzerland 2006 'Ross Bleckner', Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland 2005 'Ross Bleckner', Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria 2003 'Ross Bleckner: New Work', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY 'Ross Bleckner: Paintings', Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY 'Ross Bleckner: New Paintings', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO 'Ross Bleckner', Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium 2002 'Ross Bleckner', Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 'Ross Bleckner', Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm 'Ross Bleckner', Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy 'Ross Bleckner', Galleria Raffaelli, Trento, Italy 2001 'Ross Bleckner', Wilma Tloksdorf Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 'Ross Bleckner', Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY 2000 'Ross Bleckner', Vaknin Gallery, Atlanta, GA 'Ross Bleckner', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK 'Ross Bleckner', Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA 'Ross Bleckner', Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece 'Ross Bleckner', Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR 'Ross Bleckner', Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA 'Ross Bleckner', Galerie Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland 'Ross Bleckner', Maureen Paley / Interim Art, London, UK PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY StoreICON ABOVE
Price: 2000 USD
Location: Miami, Florida
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Artist: Ross Bleckner
Signed By: Ross Bleckner
Edition Size: 250, plus AP's
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Custom Bundle: No
Date of Creation: 2000-Now
Item Length: N/A
Region of Origin: USA
Framing: Unframed
Size Type/Largest Dimension: 24"
Personalize: No
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Year of Production: 1997
Unit Type: Unit
Width (Inches): 23
Item Height: 24 in
Style: Contemporary, Abstract
Features: Signed, Limited Edition, Numbered
Unit Quantity: 1
Item Width: 23 in
Culture: Contemporary
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1990-1999
Print Type: Serigraph & Silkscreen
Image Orientation: Portrait
Signed: Yes
Color: Multi-Color
Title: Dream and Do
Period: Contemporary (1970 - 2020)
Material: Serigraph & Silkscreen, Paper
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Original/Licensed Reprint: Limited Edition Print
Print Surface: Paper
Subject: Abstract, AIDS, Floral
Signed?: Signed
Type: Print
Edition Type: Limited Edition
Height (Inches): 24
Theme: Contemporary Art, Art
Original/Reproduction: Original Print
Production Technique: 13-Color Silkscreen
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
