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Ideas lithograph with pochoir (stencil) 25" x 19" |
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Untitled
(03) ink with pochoir 28" x 20" |
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IIV ink with pochoir 28" x 20" |
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My work aims most often to express symbol and metaphor. Occasionally expressionist/figurative, the forms are usually drawn from nature and because of my interest in poetry, linked to an "image" or setting. I attempt to vary the responses to an idea so that they are not in the same or repetitive style (but from the same hand.) If the work appears to be abstract, it is due to trying to distill an essence--in spiritual unity with the source. The series of works on paper are shapes stenciled and enhanced by colored inks, brush and pen, to explore (and hopefully reveal) new play of space and design. "Ed Colker's work as a printmaker always catches me with the same sense of surprise: the prints so often seem to exceed the likely possibilities of prints. Part of this is a testament to his technical brilliance; another part, though, is the very painterly evolution he has brought to lithography." Michael Anania, Professor of English, University of Illinois "What I'm sure Ed would most like to share with you are the messages he translates from diverse muses, decoded abstractly in his studio to fit word-images that are all the stronger for the company they keep with his thoughtful creations." Peter Bermingham, Director & Chief Curator, University of Arizona Museum of Art * the following question is from Five Decades in Print: Excerpts From Conversations with Dr. Irving Sandler: Sandler: "Do you think the artist has to stimulate in his/her work what the writer does in the poem?" Colker: Or enhance, or heighten
as an unfolding; language in metaphor with a visual setting to be
"read." It's sight, but it isn't only sight. It is a cue,
a cue to something becoming. **Quotes by Michael Anania, Peter Bermingham, and Dr. Irving Sandler were taken from the catalog, Five Decades In Print; Ed Colker.
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born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Education: 1949 Graduated, Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts) 1960 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1961 Study and work in Europe, particularly France; Guggenheim stipend increased 1965 New York University, BS Degree 1985 New York University, MA Degree Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2004 Poets House New York NY 1999 Five Decades In Print: traveling exhibition Neuberger Museum of Art State University of New York Purchase NY 1998 Five Decades in Print: traveling exhibition Bates College Lewiston MA The University of the Arts Philadelphia PA Exhibition organized by the Museum of Art University of Arizona, Tucson 1990 University Art Museum State University of New York Albany NY
The Print Club Philadelphia PA
Center for Book Arts New York NY 1975 Douglas Kenyon Gallery Chicago IL 1969 East Hampton Gallery New York NY 1963 Amel Gallery New York Selected Group Exhibitions: 2005-2006 Winter Solstice Iv The Studio/The Arts Exchange Armonk/White Plains NY Curator: Tedd Stratis 1994 Inspired by Nature Neuberger Museum Purchase NY 1990 Book Arts USA U.S. Department of State/USIA to Africa and Latin America 1984 Contemporary American Prints U.S. Department of State/USIA to U.S. Consul General Leningrad 1981 Paperworks, Art of Paper/Art on Paper U.S. Department of State/USIA to Yugoslavia 1977 American Prints of the Twentieth Century Philadelphia Museum of Art 1976 The Art of Poetry National Collection of Fine Arts/Smithsonian 1968 American Painting and Sculpture Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1967 Stampi di Due Mondi Philadelphia Museum of Art/ Tyler Rome 1966 Contemporary Fine Presses in America Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. 1964 Brooklyn Museum National Print Biennial Brooklyn NY 1951 Some American Prints Museum of Modern Art New York NY Professional Activities: 2003, 1995-98 Provost and Professor of Art and Design Pratt Institute NY 1991-95 Provost, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art New York NY 1986-91 Founding Provost University of the Arts, Philadelphia; development of the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts 1985-86 Professor and Chair Department of Art, Cornell University Ithaca NY 1980-90 Participation in the Center for Book Arts, American Printing History Association; consultant to National Endowment for the Arts 1980-85 Professor and Dean of Visual Arts, State University of New York at Purchase; development of the Center for Edition Works 1972-80 Director of the School of Art and Design and Research Professor of Art, University of Illinois at Chicago 1966-70 Critic and Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Graduate School of fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania 1951-55 Part-Time teaching at the Philadelphia Museum College; development of the Typographic Division Selected Collections: Bates College Museum of Art Chicago Bank of Commerce Cornell University, Library FMC Corporate Collection, Chicago The Getty Research Institute Harvard University, Houghton Library Library of Congress Museum of Modern Art, New York New York University Philadelphia Museum of Art State Museum of Illinois State Museum of New Jersey University of Arizona Museum of Art University of Illinois at Chicago, Library New York Public Library; Fine Print Collection, Rare Book Collection
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