Recent Contemporary Acquisitions

Lives and works in upstate New York. The work of Richard Prince is considered a

critique of American Consumer culture. Typically appropriating images from photographs and magazines.

This silkscreen was produced in concert with the publication of the book

"Human Nature" by poet Glenn O'Bren, copyright 2001, Greybull Press.

The print is a limited edition signed, from a suite of 250.

Born in Zarogoza, Spain, and apprenticed as a young age,

Goya becomes the preeminent artist of his age both in painting and engraving.

Influenced by Tiepolo and Mengs, Goya brought his work to the people. His subject matter included

all classes of individuals evolving dramatically to a bleaker view of humanity during

the Napoleonic War.

Seen as one of the founding members of Conceptualism, Kosuth’s

images consist of words, text, and definitions enlarged to the

scale and prominence of a typical painting. Using the technique

of collage, photographs, text, quotations are all used in order

to expand their typical definitions. His research continues on the

brain processes during sleep, and ideas that are driven by the unconscious.

A student at the Toledo Museum School of Design

and the Art Institute of Cleveland, and has taught at the

School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Using a wide variety of material including video, performance, and neon-installations,

Bruce Nauman’s Conceptual Art blurs the definitions between public,

and private, seller and consumer, truth and lies.

Fort Wayne, IN native, Nauman studied with Italo Scanga at

the University of Wisconsin and is married to artist Susan Rothenberg.

Nauman’s assault on culture is inspired by the DaDa Movement

of the 1920’s using commercial means of delivering his ironic

and sometimes abrasive commentary to his audience.

A Narrative painter in the style of synthetic cubisism, Jacob Lawerence’s

work symbolizes the black experience in America. Using a flat stylized

figure with bold, dramatic color, Lawerence’s work epitomizes a modern look

combined with dramatic storytelling. Lawerence, employed by the WPA program

in the 1930’s as an easel painter. Lawrence also was a

teacher at Black Mountain College, Pratt Institute of Art and

the Skohegan School of Art, among others.

Working in partnerships with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, these environmental

installation artists are known for wrapping/cloaking bridges, buildings, and

coastlines to call attention to humanities’ relationship with nature and scale.

Monumental projects that are funded through selling of preliminary sketches,

documents, and sculptures of the proposed projects.

Born York, Pennsylvania 1955.

Focusing on pop-art relative to the consumer culture.

Jeff Koons transforms items of mass market appeal, especially kitsch,

into high art. Koons studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

and the Maryland Institute of College of Art, and in 1977 arrived in New York

from where he became an art world celebrity His studio has been an immense SoHo loft

on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York, and his work expresses his

fascination with commercial packaging and children’s toys. Running his studio

like a corporation, he has 35 full-time assistants, each assigned to a different

aspect of his output—sculpture and small and large-scale paintings.

A student at Carnegie Institute of Technology and New York University,

Pearlstein is credited as the revival of Figurative art with his

keen sense of Realism. The subjects in his paintings are

seen in meticulous detail and are interwoven amongst an array

of toy objects, props and patterned rugs. An exhibition of his work

was featured in our University Gallery in 2003.

Primitive artist, one time prize fighter, poet, and radio personality.

Fitzpatrick primarily draws and is a printmaker. Using unconventional methods

and materials. His subject matter ranges from allegorical representations to

portraits of criminals and the thrown away members of society.

Richard Prince

"DUB" - Silkscreen

"7 x 9.5"

Lives and works in upstate New York. The work of Richard Prince is considered a

critique of American Consumer culture. Typically appropriating images from photographs and magazines.