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.
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Wooka is an offset lithograph and screenprint in an edition of 76, which is one in a series produced by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, during two visits by Olitski. The screen-printed border accents the central space, which is offset, emphasizing the two planes that shimmer and radiate.
_{—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records}

Olitski was an artist thrilled by actions with unpredictable outcomes, by the tension of not knowing just what would happen as a consequence of the movements of his hand. Delicately particulate pinks, yellows, mauves, blues, greens, purples, and oranges engage in a whispery tête-à-tête. Generous, unpremeditated brush strokes and melting expanses of color characterize Olitski's prints from then on.
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