Tag Archives: Jasper Johns

Happy Birthday Jasper Johns

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Today is Jasper Johns’s 82nd birthday. We will welcome Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme opening June 2. The show will feature many works published by, and some on loan from, Universal Limited Art Editions. The image at right below, from ULAE’s photo archives, shows Johns working there in 1966.

(left) Jasper Johns, 1960s. Photo by Ugo Mulas from his book New York: The New Art Scene. New York: Holt, Rinehardt and Winston, 1967. (right) Jasper Johns and printer Ben Berns working on Two Maps I at United Limited Artist Editions, 1966. Photograph by Ugo Mulas from ULAE website.

(left) Jasper Johns, 1960s. Photo by Ugo Mulas from his book New York: The New Art Scene. New York: Holt, Rinehardt and Winston, 1967. (right) Jasper Johns and printer Ben Berns working on Two Maps I at Universal Limited Art Editions, 1966. Photograph by Ugo Mulas from ULAE website.

Seeing a thing can sometimes trigger the mind to  make another thing. In some instances the work may include as a sort of subject matter references to the thing that was seen.

-Jasper Johns to Richard Francis, 1982

Ready, Aim . . .

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We’ve been talking about Jasper Johns around here for a while working towards our summer show, Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme. In Virginia over the weekend for the Richmond Street Art Festival, I saw this work by Washington D.C. artist Mark Jenkins, a surreal variation on the theme of targets that I don’t think Johns has tried.

Mark Jenkins human dartboard

Mark Jenkins human dartboard at the James River Power Plant Building, part of the Richmond Street Art Festival. Photo: Sarah Osborne Bender

Tools of the Trade: Printer Edition

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A photograph of tools in master printer Scip Barnhart's studio taken by Brooke Rosenblatt during a visit.

Just a snippet of the tools in Scip's studio. Photo: Brooke Rosenblatt

Master printer Scip Barnhart will give an interactive demonstration of basic printmaking methods in conjunction with the upcoming exhibition, Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme. Recently, a group of educators and curators visited his studio at Georgetown University to get  a sense of the techniques and the magic of the printmaking process!

Photograph of master printer Scip Barnhart demonstrating the etching process taken by Brooke Rosenblatt.

Scip demonstrates the etching process. Photo Brooke Rosenblatt

Photograph of Phillips educators and curators working together to create a lithograph taken by Brooke Rosenblatt.

Educators and curators collaborate on a lithograph. Photo: Brooke Rosenblatt

Photo of master printer Scip Barnhart showing the final drypoint print produced by the team of Phillips educators and curators. Photo taken by Brooke Rosenblatt.

Scip reveals our collaborative drypoint. Photo: Brooke Rosenblatt