Rupert Deese
2011
Aphros
Drypoint
27 x 19 inches, on Magnani Acquerello, 300 lb. Hot Press
Printed by Manneken Press
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition of 100
Created exclusively for Chinati upper-level members

New York based artist Rupert Deese has created an edition exclusively for Chinati Foundation's new and renewing upper level members ($1,000+ level).

Primarily a painter, Deese evokes organic forms in their most abstract sense. Spare and meticulous, his paintings and works on paper employ themes of nature and landscape inspired in part by his childhood in Upland, California, where Rupert was born in 1952. Deese received his M.F.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation in 1994. His work has been shown at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; and New York State Museum, Albany, among others, and is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno.

Six different copper plates were used to print the edition, with the artist reworking the plates into new states after approximately 5-8 impressions. Each is printed from a single plate.

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