Matt Phillips

Matt Phillips is a talented artist who has been creating stunning works of art for over a decade.

Recognition

Hand painted etching

Nudes

An elegant work that marries etching and watercolor with the literary writing of poetry.

Composition

Phillips' artwork was inspired by the monotypes of Edgar Degas. His retrospectives have been in the Baltimore Museum and Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

By including a hand-colored image in each portfolio, there's a balance between the austere print and that of the fluid paint.

Intent

This rare gem of a hand-colored etching that can be framed individually to create an entire wall series.

Ceres Take

Gordon Cook

Gordon Cook was a renowned artist born in 1927 in the United States. He was known for his unique style of painting that combined abstract and figurative elements.

Etching

Iris, Tulip, Daisies, Chrysanthemums

<ul><li>A dance of shadow, cuves, and reaching stems – from corner to corner.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Bay Area artist of real things, has an impressive reputation for printmaking and landscape painting.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Cook establishes a language of visual meaning with etching lines that evokes light and substance.</li></ul>

<ul><li>The arts' directness is a celebration of what-is in the world. His etchings have been collected by the the Met, MOMA, Art Institue of Chicago.</li></ul>

Hugh O'Donnell

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Lacuna

Hugh's Abstract Expressionist style taps into lyrical roots of Modernism, he's been exhibited in the likes of Hirshhorn, the MoMA, Tate Modern.

These color etchings are expressive gestures, that inadvertantly evoke emotion from their viewers.

Hugh's gestural drawings emulate the ebb and flow of of rhythms in the body.

Well established artist whose works bring life to a room.

Arturo Herrera

Arturo Herrera, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, is renowned for his boundary-breaking works merging painting, sculpture, and collage.

Fetch

South American artist known for intricate, mixed media compositions, Herrera has been shown in likes of MoMA, P.S.1, Art Institute of Chicago.

Series of six colored etchings that are both sparse and uniquely gestural and playful.

When looking at the six works, meaning is evoked from unconscious memories and recollection of the shapes.

Beautiful series of six 20 x 21 color etchings to engage a room.

Gunther Gerzso

Gunther Gerzso is a contemporary artist known for his unique and captivating style.

Temples, Templos

Mexican artist influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier, who studied set design and eventually fell in with a group of European Surrealist painters. Gerzso is exhibited in the Tate, Art Institute of Chicago, Hirshorn Museum.

Known for his abstract paintings, Gerzso uses the rectangular form of the temple, thatch-roofed, and the characteristic horizontal of the steps as a repeditive geometry.

Mayan images of nature and the temples are nested in a loose folio of English and Spanish poems.

Highly influential artist who made significant contributions to Surrrealism and geometric Abstraction.

Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

Fall 2019–Fall 2020 Collection gallery MoMA

410: At the Border of Art and Life

James Brown

James Brown was an American painter born in Los Angeles, California in 1951.

Salt Note Suite II

These forms of black ink etched onto hand-made paper exemplify the synthesis of simple materials and the human hand.

Rising to fame in the 1980s East Village art scene, Brown was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist. He has been exhibited in institutions like Centre de Pompidou, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

This bold series unfolds like a dance in its succession of six images.

Truly captivating collection made by a highly acclaimed artist.

Squeak Carnwath

Squeak Carnwath is an American artist known for her colorful and expressive paintings, prints, and installations.

Lotus

Carnwath brings to life the softness of the lotus through use of softground etching – her light pencil strokes are captured on the copper plate.

Female Bay Area artist who is a professor at UC Berkeley and whose collections are in the Metropolitan, American Academy of Arts, and SFMoMA.

Carnwath creates a harmonious world in her delicate, ambiguous forms.

Carnwath's delicate, conversational prints make great collection accents. This artist has an auction record of $30K.

Josiah McElheny

Photogravure

Studies in the Search for Infinity

Conceptual artist recognized for his blown glass sculptures and influenced by minimalists with big ideas like Donald Judd. McElheny has been exhibited in the MoMA, Guggenheim, Reina Sofia.

Ten photogravures derived from blown glass discs, each print sets the disc against a black background to evoke an infinity pattern.

The glass is reminiscent of "Cristalloware" which was developed at a time wehn philosophers were debating the universe and its finiteness. This questioning laid the groundwork for the Big Bang Theory.

Well renown artist and this print series is perfect for a collector with an eye for the constellation.

El Sitiado, The Besieged

This is a silk bound book of one extended poem by Octavio Paz in English at the top and Spanish at the bottom with etching frontispiece by Guther Gerzso.

Mexican artist influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier, who studied set design and eventually fell in with a group of European Surrealist painters. Gerzso is exhibitied in the Tate, Art Institute of Chicago, Hirshorn Museum.

The frontispiece etching introduces the theme of construction &amp; revision, a visual corollary to the text on each page: "I am not finished yet with myself."

Highly influential artist who made significant contributions to Surrrealism and geometric Abstractionism.

Jürgen Partenheimer

He is known for his diverse body of work that spans across various mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking.

Giant Wall

Characterized by an extraordinary relationship of line and mass –&nbsp;creating an effect of metaphysical realism.

German artist drawing on theory and prose in his paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures which have been displayed in MOMA, SF Art Institute, RISDI.

Partenheimer references the "giant wall" of astrophysics, which is the cosmic structure beyond our reach where things become without being observable.

One of the most renown German artists of his generation, this book solidifies a serious collector.

Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell was an American abstract expressionist painter born on February 12, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois.

Smoke

A star of Abstract Expressionism at a time when female artists rarely achieved fame. Mitchell was a peer of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, and has been exhibited in the Tate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum.

A solution of sugar and ink painted onto copper is Mitchell's direct path from painting to etching. These diptych paintings are printed on Swiss linen paper in a portfolio of beautiful poems.

In this folio of poems, Smoke, Mitchell gives life to "air" and "tobacco"

The MOMA owns an edition of this Mitchell, and her works continue to hit auction records of $29M.

Gustavo Rivera

Gustavo Rivera is a contemporary artist known for his vibrant and expressive paintings.

Monoprint

Monotype II

Rivera's monotype is both painterly and spontaneous in nature.

Internationally recognized Mexican artist who presides in San Francisco. His rich, cultural monotypes have been exhibited at the likes of Stanford Museum, de Young, Museo Felguerez.

This work is saturated with the richness of Rivera's life across San Francisco, Mexico, and Europe.

A one-of-a-kind artwork saturated with vitalithy and color.

Ed Ruscha

He is widely recognized for his contributions to the Pop Art movement and his unique approach to painting, drawing, and photography.

Book Return

He composes a visual verbalization of the scenes, objects, and texts he encounters in consumerist life in LA.

Connected to Pop Art becaue of his use of commercial art techniques, Ruscha's play on language has been highly influential. He has been exhibited in the Metropolitan, Centre Pompidou, and the Tate Modern.

Ruscha raises the ordinary to the monolithic in his tongue-in-cheek rendering of a book return box.

With a record auction price of $52M, Ruscha continues to be a coveted brand name.

Curated collection

Alexander Calder

Lithograph

Untitled

A star amongst international modern artists, Calder is best known for his mobile sculptures and has been exhibited in the MoMA, Reina Sofia, Rijksmuseum.

Influenced by Dada and Surrealism, Calder creates a sense of exuberant play here. The figures are always serenely in balance whether a print or a sculpture.

Calder embraced the concept of forms brought about by chance –&nbsp;in this color lithograph chance creates a concert of color.

Calder holds an auction record of $25M.

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Grey Tinted Rainbow

Richard's optical art has included steel sculpture, print, and reliefs. He has been exhibited in the MoMA, Whitney, Brooklyn Museum

Contrast of bright, dimensional colors. Richard combines lithography and silkscreen, assembling cutouts in geometric shapes.

A study of the effects of fourteen colors on perception in the second and third dimension.

Color and size make this a very commanding piece of art.

Morris Graves

Morris Graves was an American painter and printmaker born on August 28, 1910, in Fox Valley, Oregon.

Evening Light

Exemplary of Graves' finest and most characteristic work – a complex lithograph and silkscreen still life that is a reminder of the tour de force of beauty and transience.

Modern artist whose first exhibtion at the MoMA was in 1942 and later became one of the Pacific Northwest’s most recognized artists.

In opposition to the modern world, Graves captured the sights and sounds of the natural world, aiming to draw you back to the beauty of the altar of visual reality and spirituality.

Important Modern artist with works of notoriety and commanding color pigments. Auction records of high six figures.

Woodblock

Canto V, 2

German artist who draws on theory and prose in his works, Partenheimer's prints and sculptures have been displayed in the MoMA, SF Art Institute, RISDI.

This multimedia series combines etching, lithography, and heliorelief woodblock. Here Partenheimer sets various configurations of blocks against the fluid and rich blue.

A complete vertical experience of blue –&nbsp;the mix of high alpine blues is simulatenously spiritual and earthly.

One of the most renown German artists of his generation, these Partenheimers are commanding Hero works.

Canto V, 5

One of the most renown German artists of his generation, these powerful Partenheimers should be collected.

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Canto V, 9

Hivesong

Carnwath combines two etching techniques to imbue the print with a delicate entangelement of color and energy.

Sandro Chia

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One of the most renown living Italian artists, Sandro borrows from his rich Florentine roots and the Neo-Expressionist movement. He's been exhibited in the MoMA, Guggenheim, Museum Bilbao.

Foremost a painter, Chia incorporates hand painting across a variety of his printmaking techniques

Rich Italian imagery and themes, reinterpreted for current day with a colorful, figurative style.

A favorite Italian artist with a strong eye for color.

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Pomegranate I (Red)

Rivera works intuitively –&nbsp;using etching with collage of spontaneous color to create an energy that is uniquely his.

Rivera made only a few editions making his works rare to collect.

Headland VI

For California lovers, the lighthouse is visible here through the sunlit skin of the sea and above the rocky cliff.

Bay Area artist of real things, has an impressive reputation for printmaking and landscape painting. His etchings have been collected by the the Metropolitan, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

Cook establishes a language of visual meaning with etching lines that evokes light and substance.

Cook's directness is a celebration of what-is in the world. He is one of the greatest etchers of this era.

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Unique Monotype

Rivera's monotype emanates energy through rich paint and collage.

Pomegranate I (White)

Frank La Pena

The World is a Gift

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Olivera was an American artist born in Oakland, California in 1928.

Stelae

A Bay Area artist and leading member of the figurative movement, Oliveira's prints and sculptures have been shown in the Whitney, MoMA, National Gallery.

This two color lithograph shapes a small but monolithic figure in earth tones on a sandstone background.

Oliveira describes the figure and its ground in terms of color and form.

Globally acclaimed artist with rare prints and sculptures –&nbsp;making Oliveria's works very collectible.

Untitled I

Mitchell's spitbite technique is painted on plates with an acid solution to produce this contemplative, fine mist of color with bold blue and black strokes.

Mitchell moves from painting to etching here, creating large and vigorous brush strokes in the lens of her highly renown paintings.

Mitchell is a highly coveted collection, her works continue to hit auction records of $29M.

Untitled II

Spitbite Aquatint

Salt Note Black II

Brown created a base of lithographic forms by stamping ink with a fingerprint-like trace, varying the rhythm of the composition.

Using an antique hand-made paper intended for schools, Brown suggests that both the making and viewing of art is a process of learning.

Brown's strong six figure auction records only amplifies this stunning Hero work.

Rosebush

Cook's etching encapsulates form and mass by bringing to life the contours and spirit of a living rosebush.

Bay Area artist with an impressive reputation for printmaking and landscape painting. His etchings have been collected by the Metropolitan, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

Cook details the beauty of a single rose and the mass of the rosebush, centering the thicket of stem and shadow.

Cooks' directness is a celebration of what-is. He is one of the great etchers of this era.

Library

Ruscha echoes his famous gas station image in an architecutral elevation of a contemporary suburban library.

Salt Notes

This book uses rich papers and and extravagantly complex techniques to make the simple profound.

"Salt" as a symbol of permanence, while "Notes" evoke both music and marks. Both these words are about essence as&nbsp;they penetrate and extract from whatever they encounter.

Brown has strong six figure auction records and this book calls to art collectors.

Richard's Vase

The vase of ceramic artist, Richard Shaw, overflows with chrysanthemums and fuchsia garden flowers, like the hours Cook spends etching.

Bay Area artist of real things, has an impressive reputation for printmaking and landscape painting. His etchings have been collected by the the Met, MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago.

Surrealist pieces have generally appreciated over the last 40 years

Snapdragons

A tour-de-force monument of shadow, vase, and the compact elegance of snapdragons.

Susan Rothenberg

She is known for her unique style of abstract expressionism, which often features animal figures and bold brushstrokes.

Drypoint

Feet

An exploration of the human form, Rothenberg uses fragments of the body like these feet to explore identity.

Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Rothenberg's commitment to painterly figures has been highly infliuential in generations of artists. She has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney, Hirshorn Museum.

With vague reference to figures, her restrained palette and stark form tease the brain and eye.

Rare find with this being the first time the print has been on the market.

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain was an American sculptor known for his innovative use of crushed and twisted automobile parts to create abstract sculptures.