Philip Taaffe Benefit Print

Visual AIDS' second annual benefit print by Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe

Asuka Nimbus, 2013

41 x 33 inches

Hand-pulled relief prints on Hannemühle Black No. 313 paper

Edition size: 35 prints and 8 AP

$2,000 (plus NYS tax and shipping) - while supplies last

Purchase online or contact us at 212-627-9855 / info@visualAIDS.org.

Asuka Nimbus are unique relief prints, the plate is created from a hand-cut cardboard stencil that is inked then printed on black paper by hand. There is a slight and unique variations in color and impression from image to image. A series of Asuka Nimbus prints were featured in the exhibition "Philip Taaffe: Recent Work" from May 3 - June 15, 2013 at Luhring Augustine.

“My attitude towards repetition has to do with the cumulative effect of continuous applications of line and color. If we focus on that, and see them as crystallized into patterns or marks, what do they add up to? They become some kind of actively structured field. I see that as being an entrance to a trance-like state. I'm interested in inviting the possibility for ecstatic experience, for getting outside of stasis.” - Philip Taaffe

PHILIP TAAFFE was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1955, and studied at the Cooper Union in New York. His first solo exhibition was in New York in 1982. He has traveled widely in the Middle East, India, South America, and Morocco, where he collaborated with Mohammed Mrabet on the bookChocolate Creams and Dollars, translated by Paul Bowles (Inanout Press, New York: 1993). Taaffe lived and worked in Naples from 1988-91. He has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, two Sydney Biennials, and three Whitney Biennials. In 1990 his work was the subject of an extensive critical study in Parkett no. 26 (Zürich & New York). Publications include studies by Wilfried Dickoff (Max Hetzler Gallery, Cologne: 1992); Oleg Grabar (Gagosian Gallery, New York: 1994); and Brooks Adams (Vienna Secession: 1996), and Composite Nature(in collaboration with Stan Brakhage, 1997). His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Reina Sofia, Madrid. His work has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, including IVAM Valencia (2000), the Galeria Civica in Trento (2001), the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2008), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2011). He currently lives in New York City, and West Cornwall, Connecticut.

Image: Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine