Mel Bochner, 1984 Silkscreen, Hand Signed and Dated, Rare Artist's Proof

Name: Mel Bochner, 1984 Silkscreen, Hand Signed and Dated, Rare Artist's Proof
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MEL BOCHNER, American, b. 1984

Untitled Silkscreen, Hand signed and dated

Rare Unnumbered Signed Artist's Proof, Aside from the regular edition of 144

Measurements: 43 by 35 inches

This large, unframed work was created by renowned American artist Mel Bochner to benefit the Jazz at Lincoln Center programs in the 1980s. It is a rare hand signed Artist's Proof (unnumbered), making it more unique than the regular edition. In very good condition, though there is a small scratch and indentation in the white margin above the pencil signature, visible up close - not affecting the image or the signature.

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About The Artist

A pioneer of conceptual art in the 1960s, Mel Bochner is known for work that addresses the visual representation of systems, with a particular focus on the analysis of language.

In his Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed as Art (1966), the artist exhibited binders containing Xeroxed copies of drawings, scribbles, and notes by himself and fellow artists—such as Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and John Cage—on a pedestal, comically challenging the distinction between art and non-art. In the early 2000s, he began the Thesaurus Paintings, a series that extended his work from the 1960s. In these paintings, the artist creates brightly colored representations of the mutability of language, depicting lists of synonyms ranging from the eloquent and articulate to the colloquial and vulgar.

Bochner's work was included in many of the most significant early exhibitions of Conceptual art, including the seminal When Attitudes Become Form at the Kunsthalle Bern, curated by Harald Szeemann in 1969, and Information at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970. He has also been the subject of retrospectives at institutions including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (2011), and the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).

ABOUT THE VERA LIST ART PROJECT

The Vera List Art Project was launched at Lincoln Center in 1962 by philanthropist and art collector Vera List. A pioneer in the fields of contemporary patronage and art education, Vera was deeply engaged with the projects she supported; never one to simply write a check, she proposed innovative programs which would shape cultural institutions like the New School, the Jewish Museum, MIT, and the New Museum (which she helped to found). In particular, her vision and commitment helped to develop Lincoln Center into a true intersection of the arts, both visual and performance.

Vera firmly believed in the power of art to transform its surroundings, which is why she insisted that the Lincoln Center have a strong program for the visual arts, and committed substantial funding towards that goal. Vera and her husband Albert facilitated the acquisition of works by artists like Jasper Johns and Henry Moore for Lincoln Center, encouraging like-minded patrons to contribute to what would become the Public Art Collection.

Vera’s ambitions for Lincoln Center stretched beyond one-time donations; she wanted to establish something that could grow along with this new cultural hub. Her vision would be realized in the Vera List Art Project, a program that initially commissioned contemporary artists to create posters for Lincoln Center’s events. Bridging the gap between the visual and performing arts, the program invited artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana and Robert Rauschenberg to create posters to advertise and commemorate events from film screenings to operas. This initiative took the art out of Lincoln Center and into the streets, where it could be appreciated by the general public.

Noticing how popular the posters were becoming, in 1970 she decided that there should also be premium limited-edition prints. Signed-and-numbered by the artists, these stand-alone works of art could be sold to benefit the education and performance programs at Lincoln Center, a novel idea at the time.

Bearing witness to five decades of American contemporary art, the Vera List Art Project has produced between four and six signed print editions each year. Vera personally oversaw the project from the very first commission in 1963 up through 1974. In a nod to her visionary legacy, the Vera List Art Project commissions artists to this day, with recent prints from Chuck Close, Karen Kilimnik, William Kentridge, and Barbara Kruger to name a few. Proceeds from the sale of these prints continue to benefit Lincoln Center's innovative cultural programming.