Wooka

About the Work

From the Artist

What's so exciting about making a print, any print? It has to be that dizzy-making moment—call it terror? —that comes with the pulling of a proof.
_{—Excerpted from https://juditestein.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/stein_jules-olitski.pdf, accessed 7-8-2021}

Wooka, 1989, by Jules Olitski, is an offset lithograph and screenprint in an edition of 76 produced by Brandywine during two visits. The screen-printed border highlights the offset central space, emphasizing the presence of two planes that shimmer and radiate. Olitski is regarded as a master of color field painting, and his Brandywine prints demonstrate his fascination with the visual sensation of color. 
_{—Adapted from https://juditestein.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/stein_jules-olitski.pdf, accessed 7-8-2021, from Brandywine Workshop and Archives records and "Fresh, Human and Personal: Signature of Brandywine Workshop," Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection (Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2004)}