$86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's May 15, 2008
4 centimeters high, was painted in 1963 in oil and silkscreen ink. Here, too, the legacy of the art of the absurd invented by Marcel Duchamp is in evidence, albeit in very different fashion. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Lucian Freud painting breaks record May 14, 2008
Warhol's large-scale silkscreen Double Marlon of actor Marlon Brando from The Wild One went for $US32. 5m, while other Warhols also sold well. (The Australian)
You Paid How Much? World record sum for Freud painting May 14, 2008
Mark Rothko's No 15 fetched nearly 26m, including commission, while Andy Warhol's large-scale silkscreen Double Marlon of actor Marlon Brando went for nearly 16m. Bookmark this page. (Sky News)
Robert Rauschenberg's art challenged assumptions May 14, 2008
Later, he became a master printmaker; he was one of the first to incorporate commercial silkscreen printing into painting. He also experimented with interactive electronics, light sculpture and performance art. (USA Today -- Life)
Freud nude shatters price record May 14, 2008
Warhol's large-scale silkscreen Double Marlon of actor Marlon Brando in The Wild One went for $US32. 5 million ($34. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Art becomes luxury-brand for Asians May 6, 2008
A Damien Hirst "spot" painting and a 1962 Andy Warhol silkscreen could also fetch millions, organisers say. "With so many top calibre galleries exhibiting a huge range of 20th and 21st century art there will be something for everyone," said Renfrew. (India Times)
City Program Exposes Positives Of 'Urban Art' Apr 8, 2008
Venegas is the director of production for the Writerz Blok silkscreen business. The program also offers training in graphic design, muralism and even club DJ skills. (TheSanDiegoChannel.com, CA)
In picturesArtists exhibit their talents at the Royal Academy of Arts Apr 1, 2008
Artist Andy Lovell, from Gloucester, brought two silkscreen prints - including this one of Ashdown Forest, in East Sussex. The Summer Exhibition will open on 9 June. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Artist finds working with clay ‘meditative’ Mar 27, 2008
Besides caning, Stout will hand paint, silkscreen, carve and sculpt. There s a joke within the clay industry Sharp side down, Stout says, laughing. (Pearland Journal, TX)
Area students can enter congressional art contest Mar 21, 2008
Categories of artwork include paintings (oil, acrylics, watercolor), drawings (colored pencil, pencil, charcoal, ink or markers), collage, prints (lithographs, silkscreen or block prints), mixed media, computer generated art or photography. Deville said the event has attracted more participants each year. (Kansas City Kansan, KS)
Sally Morgan - Aboriginal Artist Mar 21, 2008
A suggested outline for a critical analysis of Sally Morgan's silkscreen print "Taken Away." The work evokes a feeling of searching for a sense of identity and place ... If you would like to know more about the Lost Generation, read "Bringing Them Home Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. April 1997 In this report authors spoke to more than 500 Aboriginal people whose lives have been directly affected by the... (Suite101.com)
Boston Printmakers 60th anniversary exhibit travels to Gordon College Mar 7, 2008
Their first exhibit featured a variety of contemporary printmaking forms for that time period, including etchings and drypoints, lino cuts, engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, wood-engravings, and the newly popular serigraph, which is a silkscreen process. From 1954 to 1969 the Boston Printmakers exhibits were on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. (Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, MA)
Hospice helpers Mar 7, 2008
Lying on a hospital bed in his southwest Corvallis home, Jim Howland looked up at the wall, where some of his silkscreen prints hang. He focused on them as a Hospice worker smoothed out the knots in his back, and slowly released the tension built up in his arms and legs. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Traveling exhibit tells Mississippians' Katrina stories Mar 3, 2008
"Porter, an artist in the social realist genre, had long documented Mississippians; her signature style involves environmental portraits in black-and-white photography, a high-contrast silkscreen image, acrylic paint and Prismacolor pencil. Based in Jackson for years, she now has a gallery in downtown Vicksburg.She's drawn to resiliency, adaptability and strength in her subjects."That's what's been in my work for all these years, with a big strong dose of spirituality and Mississippi... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Vero museum puts on brave face Feb 18, 2008
The exhibition ends with huge powerhouse Paintings, including Andy Warhol's "Self-Portrait" (1986 acrylic and silkscreen on canvas); Till Freiwall's "Untitled" (2004 watercolor on paper); Susan Hauptman's "Self-Portrait" (1990 charcoal and pastel on paper); and Chuck Close's "Lyle" (2003 color silkscreen). While the show reveals the museum's heft when it comes to borrowing works and installing them into a smart exhibition, it doesn't mean the Vero Beach Museum of Art is doing away with renting... (Florida Today)
AUCTIONS: At Christie's Post-War and Contemporary sale, 3 world records, but danger looms Feb 9, 2008
Most astonishingly, Warhol's self-portrait in synthetic polymer paint on silkscreen and inks done on canvas in 1966 failed to make the grade. It was bought in at 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Bono, Hirst auction combines art, charity in NY Feb 5, 2008
Among them is Koons's silkscreen "Balloon rabbit wall relief (Red)," expected to command about $1 million. His sculpture "Hanging Heart" broke the record in November for a living artist, soaring to $23. (AlertNet)
Causing a splash Local artists exhibit talent in their own backyard Feb 3, 2008
La Ola began when longtime friends Nicole Contreras, a silkscreen artist, and Roxana Marroquin, a photographer, expressed their wishes to create an artist organization exclusive to North Hudson. "It's very doable," Contreras remembered telling Marroquin when first approached about the idea. (Hoboken Reporter, NJ)
Out of India: Design dynasty with 'fun' twist Feb 1, 2008
Ancient dancers get a silkscreen treatment, and Bollywood's Technicolor feel goes black and white ... Dancers in Tune, silkscreen print on pastel paper, $179. (USA Today -- Life)
Black's portrait up for bids next week Jan 31, 2008
The blue silkscreen is being put up for auction in London on Feb. 7 by Christie's International PLC, and the auction house is hoping it will fetch up to $240,000 ... The two met a year earlier through a mutual friend and Mr. Warhol offered to produce the silkscreens based on a photograph of Lord Black, then a 37-year-old entrepreneur. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Think of Earl, the 'Brilliant Eccentric' Jan 10, 2008
Michael Riley and others help with the silkscreen process, shifting multicolored poster paper under a series of screens on which Earl s alchemy of line and color manifest spookily. He does something supernatural on flat sheets of paper. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Quit bogarting the Warhol, man Jan 8, 2008
Prices for middling Warhols now often exceed 1 million and a Warhol silkscreen of a car crash sold this May for a record 71 million. Many longtime dealers and collectors are quick to compliment the family's singular strategy. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Memorex(R) Adds to Specialty Media Line Jan 7, 2008
With Memorex LightScribe media and a LightScribe-enabled optical drive, consumers can create silkscreen quality disc prints using photos, graphics and text, and then inscribe the designs directly onto the specially coated discs. Simply burn the data side of the disc as usual, then flip the disc over and use the same drive to burn a rich, custom label. (PR Newswire)
Immobilised in tests of time Dec 29, 2007
At the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, there is a massive Warhol retrospective that gathers together all that is most familiar about his work - the iconic '60s portraits, the Campbell's Soup silkscreens, the Brillo boxes - as well as much that is elusive, surprising, easily overlooked ... Hanging close to the screening rooms, there's an image that looks like a Screen Test on canvas, a large silkscreen 1962 portrait of Natalie Wood, which uses a single black-and-white publicity shot, printed in... (The Age)
Critics' picks - visual arts Dec 24, 2007
It's a magical experience, and it's sobering to pass into the nearby small galleries where Holzer has mounted recent silkscreen paintings depicting formerly classified US government documents related to the war in Iraq. Each body of work is lean and visceral. (Boston Globe)
Beneath the floss was an obsession with mortality Dec 7, 2007
Though Warhol's name is synonymous with sugary sweet silkscreen prints of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, his most expensive work to date shows no trace of a superstar grin, nor even a tin of Campbell's soup ... With his army of bohemian assistants, he transferred the clippings on to enormous silkscreens and produced print after morbid print. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Bacon and Koons lead $315.9 million sale Nov 16, 2007
"Self-Portrait (Green Camouflage)," done in acrylic and silkscreen in 1986, shows the artist's face in fragments, as if seen in some unfinished jigsaw puzzle. This goes straight back to the Surrealist portraits of Francis Picabia on the eve of World War II. The bill for the portrait was a huge $12. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Andy's Black Period Nov 15, 2007
The silver silkscreen was one of a series of four Warhol painted in 1981 when Black, then 37, was just starting to build his newspaper empire. It was expected to garner between 150,000 and 200,000. (New York Post -- Business)
One superstar cashes in on another Nov 14, 2007
Liz, a silkscreen print on canvas measuring a metre square, is one of 12 that Warhol made of Taylor and captures her at the height of her fame and beauty. It is modelled on a still photograph from the 1960 film Butterfield 8, for which Taylor won an Oscar. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
$325 million Christie's sale reflects buoyant market Nov 14, 2007
The second highest price was paid for the enormous poster-style image of "Liz" done in the silkscreen technique by Andy Warhol in 1963 and that too may have disappointed Christie's, if very mildly - at $23. 56 million, "Liz" missed the lower end of the estimate by nearly 20 percent. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Craft lovers click at Etsy.com Nov 8, 2007
First, Frake and Manubay lay out their designs (inspired by everything from their travels to what they see on the street) using design software, then they silkscreen the images onto various items, like baby T-shirts and passport holders, in their South End studio. In their words: "Our inspiration comes from everything. It might be visual like a color combo, or sometimes signage inspires us. We tend to differ in style. Ann goes toward the minimalist while Dabney tends toward cute. Then we meet in... (Boston Globe)
ECU Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Nursing change name Oct 29, 2007
It was printed by a team of ECU faculty and students, using silkscreen and letterpress techniques. RENCI/CCSIM hosts open house. (The Daily Reflector)
R.B. Kitaj, 74; paintings conveyed historical, literary themes Oct 25, 2007
He remained defiantly eclectic and worked in several media, including silkscreen. Starting in the mid-1970s, he began concentrating on pastels in the tradition of Degas. (Boston Globe)
Chinese works elicit surprise at Christie's and Sotheby's contemporary sales Oct 15, 2007
Later Andy Warhol's "Jackie," an ink and silkscreen work of 1964, went up to 1. 7 million, 25 percent more than expected. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Black Must Buy Warhol Sep 29, 2007
Black, who was convicted in July of plundering millions from investors in his newspaper empire, tried to argue that the pink silkscreen and two other Warhols with blue and black backgrounds were his personal property. Creditors for Toronto-based Ravelston, Black's private company that controlled his newspaper empire, said the portraits belonged to his company, which should be forced to sell them to pay his debts. (New York Post -- Business)
On video: Lawyers play in the halls of power Sep 20, 2007
Here Walker relies on Warhol's old standby, the silkscreen. He scanned bricks and cinderblocks, and using color separation and silk-screening, he printed the scans and placed them in shifting, Mondrian-like grids on panels. (Boston Globe -- Living)
This is a warning Aug 1, 2007
Only a hostile witness can miss the endless permutations of the silkscreen method by which he transferred photographs to a porous screen and pressed paint through it ... But in this grossest of Warhol's gross-outs, the beauty of his art asserts itself: the repeated silkscreens of the terrible sight wash out into the mystical emptiness of the abstract setting, a panel three and a half metres long, much of which is empty linen. (Guardian Unlimited)
Art owner alleges Warhol conspiracy Jul 18, 2007
July 17, 2007, 9:55 AM EDT NEW YORK -- The owner of a silkscreen self-portrait of Andy Warhol is suing the late artist's estate, saying it conspired for 20 years to control the market for Warhol's work with authority to stamp "DENIED" on any work it claimed was fake ... He accused them of engaging in a two-decade scheme of fraud, collusion and manipulation that caused them to twice deny the authenticity of his 24-by-20-inch silkscreen even though it already had been authenticated multiple times... (Newsday -- Entertainment)
The real deal? Jul 18, 2007
A silkscreen self-portrait of Andy Warhol is shown. On the back, a stamp from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. labels it "Denied" after having declared it a fake. (Guardian Unlimited)
DENIED? Warhol Silkscreen Owner Sues Jul 17, 2007
Warhol Silkscreen Owner Sues - Forbes ... Warhol Silkscreen Owner SuesBy LARRY NEUMEISTER 07 ... The owner of a silkscreen self-portrait of Andy Warhol sued the late artist's estate on Monday, saying it conspired for 20 years to control the market for Warhol's work with authority to stamp "DENIED" on any work it claimed was fake. (Forbes)
Hugo Rifkind: People at No 10 Jun 27, 2007
The leftover dust from the grinding of the many, many diamonds on Damien Hirst s jewelled skull is, we are told, to be used in a triptych silkscreen piece called Crucifixion, by the artist Mat Collishaw. Waste not, want not. (Times Online)
Portrait by Lucian Freud earns £7.86 million at record-setting Christie's sale Jun 22, 2007
Andy Warhol's silkscreen works found a ready market, although perhaps not quite with the same consistent enthusiasm as in previous sales. "Three Marilyns," done in 1962, shows three shots of the American actress, one above the other as in a developed roll of film, reworked in silkscreen and colored ... Nothing looks more like one silkscreen portrait or flower by Warhol than another silkscreen portrait or flower by the said artist. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Apocalypse at the Venice Biennale Jun 11, 2007
A room of new silkscreen paintings by the American artist Jenny Holzer, best known for her neon signs of social commentary, were based on classified military documents from the Iraq war and the Guantnamo Bay prison, including a medical examiner's autopsy report for an Iraq national. He had suffered "fractures of the ribs and a contusion of the left lung" suggesting "significant blunt force injuries of the thorax," the report noted. (International Herald Tribune)
The hidden cost of sky-high art prices Jun 3, 2007
The very next night at Christie's, a 1963 silkscreen on canvas by Andy Warhol went for $71. 7 million. (Boston Globe -- Living)
In the eye of the beholder Jun 3, 2007
Winter in Springs, the Pollock stolen from the Everhart along with the Andy Warhol silkscreen, Le Grand Passion, still hasn t been found. FBI and Scranton police investigators will say only that the investigation is ongoing. (Scranton Times, PA)
Warhol goes for record $71m May 17, 2007
Warhol created Green Car Crash, a silkscreen print on linen, in 1963 as part of his seminal Death and Disaster series. It shows repeated images of a mangled and burning car that has transformed a mundane suburban streetscape, and was based on a news photograph of an accident that appeared in Newsweek that same year. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Warhol Work Sets Record at NYC Auction May 17, 2007
This picture supplied by Christies shows Andy Warhol's "Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)," the synthetic polymer, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen image which is expected to sell for between $25 35 million when it is auctioned at Christie's in New York Wednesday evening, May 16, 2007 ... Silkscreened over a green background, the painting uses a news photograph of a grisly crash in Seattle. (Herald-Tribune)
Carol Ray is back in Washington May 12, 2007
In spite of having very bad health and three heart attacks, he did stage sets and silkscreen covers for programs of events, and then when he retired from teaching he took over the restoration of Blair House. Golden Triangle Media. (Washington Journal, IA)
Local artist puts county on map May 4, 2007
"It's a painting, but I added collages, silkscreen and stamps to the different areas," said Strauss. "There are lots of hidden things in it and people will keep seeing something new each time they look at it," she said. (Henrietta Post, NY)
Sotheby's and Christie's May Sell $1.4 Billion of Art in New York Auction Apr 17, 2007
Andy Warhol's ``Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I),'' a 1963 silkscreen, has a top estimate at Christie's of $35 million. The company set a Warhol auction record in November when Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau bought a Mao image for $17. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Warhol work seeks `15 million' of fame Mar 23, 2007
The 1962 silkscreen of the film star Marilyn Monroe was bought at the artist's first one-man show in New York for US$250 ... Often he used old photographs colored with synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks. (The Standard)
If things were different, we’d appreciate that adjustment Mar 22, 2007
He s a silkscreen artist who has made designs for the Monterey Jazz Festival for almost 50 seasons. He has done hundreds of posters for the Newport Aquarium, Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, every Summit event and to sell at a long string of fairs. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
more » Mar 8, 2007
(On our way into the cafe, we pass a gallery that's hanging Andy Warhol's "Early Colored Jackie," a silkscreen of a young first lady at the height of Camelot's incandescent power. Well, Jackie would no doubt suggest accentuating the positive - the positive being Jordan's food: fresh, creative, meticulously plated fare. (CTNow.com)
Original prints merit more than a glance Mar 3, 2007
"Miranda spent several weeks at Graphicstudio studying maps at the university. He found an ancient map of the New World showing Florida and Cuba."He incorporated that into the work itself," Sacilotto said. "We printed that combination of woodcut and silkscreen. It's a fascinating piece. (Florida Today)
A riot of dark fragments Mar 1, 2007
Brannon's later silkscreen Premature Ejaculation ("Torn Apart Pictures Presents") presents a roster of stars that includes "The Disappointment of Kenneth Anger, The Smells of Death, Gray Wolves Sipping Chianti, the Gruesome Guests and the Sadistic DJ." There is a scrambling here of fragments of Brannon's lived experience, drawn from many different vectors of the artist's life, with idiomatic phrases and assorted parts of speech appearing -- to our surprise -- in lieu of the usual cast of... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Exhibit explores Warhol's move from commercial to pop artist Feb 23, 2007
That ultimately drew him to the soup can silkscreens, two of which are part of the exhibit ... There's also a poster of the giant yellow banana he illustrated during his collaboration with Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground for the band's first album cover, and a bright silkscreen rendition of Elizabeth Taylor. (NEPA News, PA)
New season will put the daring back in fabrics Feb 9, 2007
A highlight at KBC was an abstract floral in a silkscreen over-printed effect on floaty cotton voile, which could easily be seen as a flowing summer evening dress. There was, however, plenty at Preview New York for those eschewing busy prints and bold colors thanks to a rich palette of neutrals in the official "color card" of Premi. (International Herald Tribune)
Strange Bedfellows Jan 20, 2007
Warhol might appear to have tried to get even with his piss painting portrait of Basquiat, made from acrylic, silkscreen ink, and urine on canvas. But then again, Warhol, the avid antique collector, loved the unexpected patinas that would emerge on metallic objets d arte over time. (San Antonio Current, TX)
Images of political 'Dissent!' on view at Fogg Art Museum Jan 18, 2007
A silkscreen by Andy Warhol reproduces a photograph of an Alabama race riot. Percussive montages of text, magazine photographs, and neon-bright colors by Sister Corita celebrate such avatars of progressive politics as Martin Luther King Jr., the Berrigan brothers, and Eugene McCarthy. (Boston Globe -- Living)
New Art: Putting yourself in the picture Jan 10, 2007
In preparing public artwork for the Montreal International Airport, she produced a uty Free brown paper shopping bag with silkscreen picture of nomadic person carrying her belongings on her head. Another piece memorializes the way Japan forced Korean women to work as prostitutes from 1910 to 1945. (Wood River Journal, ID)
