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- Artists
- Wirsum, Karl
 - Manufacturer
- POP!NK Editions
- Edition Details
| Year: | 2020 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Released: | 05/07/20 | | Run: | 25 | | Technique: | Screen Print | | Paper: | Mohawk Superfine UltraWhite 160 | | Size: | 35 X 21 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
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Karl Wirsum
"Sphinx Thinks About Climate Change"
14-color Hand-Pulled Screen Print on Mohawk Superfine UltraWhite, 160 lb cover.
Deckled, numbered, and signed by the artist.
Printed by POP!NK Editions
21h x 35w inches
Edition of 25
$2,000.00
Louis Buhl & Co. is excited to present the newest edition from artist Karl Wirsum, titled Sphinx Thinks About Climate Change. A life-long resident of Chicago, Wirsum participated in the 1960s series of exhibitions titled 'Hairy Who' that featured artists infamous for their wry humor and irreverence to established artistic conventions. Later identified as the Chicago Imagists, the group became known for its grotesque but meticulously executed works.
Wirsum's paintings and drawings combine a graphic sensibility–vivid, flat colors, simplified cartoon-like figures–with a sense of humor evident in the works themselves and also in titles that second guess and play with words. The work is characterized by visceral imagery and a surrealist quality that lends his figures a wonderful sense of movement. Wirsum remarks on his process, "I think about what part of the body it is [I'm drawing] and how I can make some association to it but bring a strong abstraction." The abstraction in these works often comes about as jarring movements or forms. The artist's attention to movement is not only evident in his figures, but in his ability to move between media as well.
This limited edition print is a 14-color hand-pulled screenprint on Mohawk Superfine UltraWhite, 160 lb cover. The 21h x 35w inch print is deckled, numbered, and signed by the artist.
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