Untitled (Red-VDZ Print) - Melvin Edwards (NEW)
Untitled (Red-VDZ Print), Melvin Edwards

Untitled (Red-VDZ Print)

Artist

Melvin Edwards

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

Medium

Offset Lithograph

Date

1998

Dimensions

30 x 21 1/2 inches

Edition Size

80 prints in this edition

Printer

Robert "Bob" Franklin

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Location

Philadelphia, PA

About the Work

From the Artist

Abstraction is a process or concept; it’s not a style. But a lot of people think of it as a style. They think if they don’t recognize it, it must be abstract, which is just not true. A Jackson Pollock painting, once you’re familiar with it, is a familiar object. It’s like how a foreign language sounds like noise or cacophonous nothing because you don’t speak it. But once you know the language, then it’s full of information and poetry.

I grew up in a world of art that produced the conventions of what we call “modern art,” and so those languages are part of the information that I have. Hopefully I’ve managed to give my own spin on the appearance of the things I create; the concerns that are particular to me.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

About the Artist

Melvin Edwards

A sculptor born in Houston, TX, Melvin Edwards earned his BFA from the University of Southern California.

Edwards has exhibited at the Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN;...

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