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Robert Kushner Hiroko Portrait American Litho 1980s
Description: Color lithograph on textured paper, framed (with plexiglass). Numbered with title and artist signature along lower edge: "'Hiroko 11/170 Robert Kushner". Lithograph includes typed letter signed by artist and printer, Judith Solodkin: "Solo Press Inc. 578 Broadway New York, NY...Artist: Robert Kushner Title: Hiroko Date: April, 1986 Paper: Ungeishi - grey Size: 28 1/2 x 24 Description: A lithograph printed from one limestone and 3 Aluminum plates in 5 colors. All were hand drawn by the artist using lithographic tusche and crayon and hand printed by Toshiyasu Shinozaki and Master printer Judith Solodkin. The paper, Ungeishi - grey, which has natural irregularities is hand made in Japan. The Solo Press Inc. chop is in the lower right hand corner....Lithograph commissioned by the Community Committee of the Brooklyn Museum.". Dimensions: Image: 28 1/2 x 24in. Frame: 38 1/4 x 32 1/4in. Weight: 10lbs. 6oz. (Box J) Condition: Please note: The work has not been inspected outside of the frame/plexi-glass. Slight darkening and rippling to paper throughout. Otherwise, appears to be in very good condition overall. Artist's Biography:
Robert Ellis Kushner (1949). A member of the Pattern and Decoration movement, Robert Kushner, creates art ranging from black and white drawings done directly on walls to paintings on stitched together pieces of fabric to large-scale mosaics. Kushner began his formal education at the University of California at San Diego studying with Nan Goldin, who was a visiting lecturer at the school from 1969-70. In the early 1970s, he moved to New York City where he first found work as a restorer and collector of Oriental carpets. In New York his relationship with Nan Goldin continued, and she became his mentor. The pair studied the essentials of decoration, and in 1974 they traveled to Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. In the late 1970s Kushner's work was boldly colored painted-fabric works that were inspired by the textiles of Uzbekistan in which patterned fabrics are stitched together to create wall hangings.In 1985, the artist traveled to Japan where he was strongly influenced by the country's art. In the late 1990s he began painting decoration on Japanese screens, which he has recovered from thrift shops and auctions adding "symbols of change and survival" to the artwork. Kushner's more recent work experiments with the use of chance, a theory of John Cage's in making artwork. For an artwork memorializing the victims of September 11, Kushner dropped paper onto a canvas then painted where the papers had fallen. He has also created some large-scale works including Island Garden, which measures 41 feet in length and wraps around a rooms four walls. A collaboration with mosaicist Stephen Miotto resulted in a large subway project in glass, tile and marble for the 77th Street Station in Manhattan. In 1990, during the extensive renovation of the lobby of 1270, Avenue of the Americas, Rockefeller Center, a search conducted by professionals of the Museum of Modern Art to locate an artist whose work was suitable for this project resulted in the selection of Kushner. [Source: ]
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