Untitled by Joseph Kurhajec
Untitled
Joseph Kurhajec
Title
Untitled
Artist
Joseph Kurhajec
1938 - PRESENT (biography)Year
c. 1970
Technique
color collagraph using iguana skin, animal hair, and scales
Image Size
17 7/8 x 9 3/4" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
40 of 120
Annotations
pencil editioned, lower left
Reference
Paper
thick cream wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
18958
Price
$600.00
Description
Sculptor, painter, and printmaker Joseph Kurhajec grew up on a mink farm in Racine, Wisconsin, and owes a large part of his inspiration to a childhood spent not only around the continued cycle of life and death, but to the intimate familiarity of the animal transition from a live thing to an inanimate object, and all of the questions that transition presents.
In this untitled collagraph, we see Kurhajec’s innate desire to connect the physical to the theoretical: he has taken the discarded skins of reptiles and the hair of an unknown beast to press into the sheet, forming another, new life - perhaps a benevolent monster, who walks away from the viewer toward a world we cannot comprehend.