Medium: Mezzotint
Dimensions: 31 5/8 x 23 3/4 inches (image) 39 1/4 x 28 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Thai, 1990
Date finished: 2018
Edition: of 25

Recommended by Nikki (Art Photographer / Marketing and Exhibitions Specialist):

This large mezzotint was printed in 2018 - before covid shut the world down. Today, it feels equally, if not more relevant. I enjoy the perspective Thai artist, Chirachaisakul, has on America’s ‘Labyrinth of Liberty’. Liberty is bound, gagged, blinded, objectified, and wrapped in fragility - unable to help the small figures that climb her. Even if the figures in the print could make it through the maze at the bottom, there would be even more red tape at the top.

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (image) 19 3/4 x 27 1/2 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1961
Date finished: 2017
Edition: of 30

Recommended by Rebecca (Gallery Manager):
"Although now a favorite artist of mine, I originally found Keisuke Yamamoto's lithographs to be a bit austere. It wasn't until I took the time to continue looking that my experience of the scene transformed. Now I feel welcomed into the moment. I long to sit in the chair, to feel the breeze enter the room through the window, and to be warmed by the light. The artist has impeccable technique from the drawing stage to the printing of the lithograph. To watch him sharpen a litho pencil is to understand his precision. Through exquisite rendering, Yamamoto brings to life a place and a moment that I long to experience."

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches (image) 27 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1961
Date finished: 2017
Edition: of 20

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches (image)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1961
Date finished: 2000
Edition: of 15

Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager / Marketing Coordinator):

In the 'Light Time Silence’ series, Yamamoto creates mysterious spaces that are both blank and full of meaning. A story with one too many details missing. Chairs placed (or abandoned?) in front of windows. Spaces empty of signifiers. ‘Light Time Silence #17’ is slightly different because there are more objects that whisper about this type of place and its type of person. We don’t know where they’ve gone, but their dishes are drying next to the sink. We don’t know where this room is but it seems to be in an old building. As we enter a space that we believe to be a home, we turn our focus to who owns this chair, who belongs in this chair. We think about what is needed to make a space into a home because we can see that this blank space has the proper foundation, but an uncanny neutrality, an absence. A home without a heart. A place without its people.

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 22 x 18 inches (image)
Artist details: American, 1969
Date finished: 2009
Edition: of 12

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 22 x 18 inches (image)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1969
Date finished: 2012
Edition: of 30

Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 22 x 18 inches (image)
Artist details: American, 1969
Date finished: 2012
Edition: of 33