Indigo Man

 

Michael Mabry

 

1998  

color lithograph 

23 1/8 x 18 5/16" image size 

unsigned, as published; artist's name blind embossed in lower right 

not stated 

printing house's logo and title blind embossed in lower margin, center; date embossed after artist's name 

 

cream BFK Rives wove 

published 

artist 

25508 

$250.00 

Michael Malbry is a San Francisco-based graphic and fine artist and designer who works in printmaking, painting, and asssemblage. His career is rooted in San Francisco Postmodernism, also referred to as the "Pacific New Wave" of the 1980s and '90s. His work often features typography, as seen in the layered imagery of "Indigo Man." Strips of what looks like newsprint in Chinese and Latin characters shoot across the background, and a numerical chart gives the man's shirt its pattern. In the bottom of the image the artist has written in the stone: "An indigo man walking his burnt orange wire-haired terrier on a sunny tangerine afternoon."