Sol LeWitt "Series and Sequence"

Senior & Shopmaker Gallery

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Senior & Shopmaker Gallery presents Sol Lewitt: Series and Sequence, a selection of prints by this venerable figure of the Conceptual Movement who passed away last year at the age of 79. Lewitt’s first published prints were made in 1970; the exhibition includes individual prints such as the 1972 screenprint Arcs, Circles & Grids and Wavy Brushstrokes #2 from 1995, as well as numerous prints in series such as The Location of Lines, 1975, Complex Forms, 1988, and Tondo Stars I-VI, 2002.

For Lewitt, the activity of printmaking was central to his art, being an ideal medium in which to employ his systematic methodologies to image-making. The ease with which the elements in a print can be altered – by changing colors, lines, or adding layers – allowed the artist to expand his serial imagery beyond the scope of drawing or sculpture. Whereas the imagery in the early prints generally conforms to prescribed progressions or themes, Lewitt relaxed the rigor of his systems in later works such as the 1988 Complex Forms where color appears subjective and interlocking patterns of lines take a more organic form.

Lewitt explored all print media equally. Silkscreens and woodcuts, like the artist’s well-known wall drawings, were executed by assistants, whereas etchings, like his drawings and gouaches on paper, were drawn by the artist himself. From the reductiveness of his early line etchings to the flat, precise delineations afforded by linocut and the sumptuous surfaces and layers of saturated color of his aquatints, Lewitt demonstrated a depth and versatility in printmaking that mark his towering achievement in the field.

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Schedule

from September 24, 2008 to November 26, 2008

Artist(s)

Sol LeWitt

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