Evangelismo - Don Colley (NEW)
Evangelismo, Don Colley

Evangelismo

Artist

Don Colley

Nationality

American

Heritage

European American

Medium

Offset Lithograph

Date

1992

Dimensions

22 x 30 inches

Edition Size

100 prints in this edition

Printer

Robert "Bob" Franklin

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Location

Philadelphia, PA

About the Work

From the Artist

Very briefly I would just like to say that the present electoral climate influenced the imagery.

Technically—I wanted to use the color separation process very much in the way commercial printing breaks down color—in primary colors: yellow, magenta, and cyan (blue) with a black key propped on top. In this way, the print would have a feel like comic books. To further that feeling, I relied heavily on chart pack dot patterns for both grainy and mechanical textures. The challenge in this way of approaching color is to produce as wide a range of the color spectrum with a limited means—earth tones and secondary colors being a bit tricky, and I might add, a bit more "contrived," which again was the look I was after. Another effect I wanted was an enriched texture from the moiré patterns that are created by the overlapping and offsetting of the chart pack dot patterns.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

About the Artist

Don Colley

Born in Phoenix, AZ, Don Colley earned a BFA from the University of Texas. His work has been exhibited in institutions including the Janet Fleisher Gallery (now Fleisher/Ollman), Philadelphia; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Moore College of Art & Des...

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