Frank Stella, Signed Very Special Arts Gallery Exhibition Print (After Wall Sculpture), 1992

Frank Stella

Untitled for the Very Special Arts Gallery

Offset lithograph and photo-lithograph

A rare hand signed exhibition photolithograph derived from Stella's sculptural relief works, presented here with exceptional depth and color and spatial illusion. Although completely two-dimentional, the work has the visual presence of a maquette or collage - a hallmark of Stella's experimentations in the 1980s and 1990s. He has sogned it boldly across the lower margin, given the piece an unusually strong artist's touch.

Published by the Very Special Arts Gallery in Washington DC., an organization long since closed, this print was originally created for a special exhibition initiative and survives today as a scarce artifact from that period. Extremely few examples appear on the market, and none that we've located with this scale, condition or presentation. A genuine collector's find.
Provenance: Gifted by the artist to the previous owner.

(VSA, previously named Very Special Arts, is part of the Washington D.C.-based John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. )
Measurements:
Frame:
22.5 x 27 x 2 inches
Work:
19.25 x 24 inches

About Frank Stella:
Frank Stella (b. 1936; Malden, MA) has produced an extraordinary body of work over the past six decades. Since his first solo gallery exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960, Stella has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. Early in his career, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the art in the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962) The Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964-65), Systemic Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971). Stella’s recent work uses digital modeling to explore how subtle changes in scale, texture, color and material can affect our perception and experience of an object.
Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery