MEL BOCHNER's Unique Monoprints Available

MEL BOCHNER’s Unique Monoprints Available

August 12, 2019/Robin Rile

Kat Barrow-Horth with Mel Bochner's "Blah Blah Blah" at Art Miami.

If you’ve been to a major Art Show like Art Miami or TEFAF Maastricht in the past 20 years, you’ve probably seen the works on American conceptual artist Mel Bochner (b. 1940). (Above, you see our own Kat Barrow-Horth with his “Blah Blah Blah” effectively summing up her mood!)

Bochner’s oversized and somewhat subversive, text-based painting have become magnets for selfies and conversations for decades.

Mel Bochner's "Blah Blah Blah" painting shown in situ

Poking fun at the art establishment and harking back to other textual artists like Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Bochner’s thesaurus paintings consist of synonyms of phrases repeated in painterly capital letters. His monoprints are each unique, one-off works which combine varied techniques with thick, impastoed paint on handmade paper.

Mel Bochner's printing technique

We’ve gained access to a cache of these fantastic works and been given an opportunity to bring them to our distinguished clientele. Among the works we have located is this massive “Top Dog”…

Mel BOCHNER's Monoprint Top Dog in full Mel Bochner (b. 1940)
Top Dog, 2018
Monoprint with engraving and embossment on Twinrocker handmade paper
92.5 x 52 inches (235 x 132.1cm)
Signed: recto in image
BOCHNER- Mono- TopDog- Boxed Detail7