Alexis Rockman
Alexis Rockman's vibrant offset color lithographs, Mastodon, Sabre-Toothed Tiger and Tiger Beetle, depict extinct animals as dynamic pop creatures. By defining their features with a dark, fluid wash on top of boldly colored grounds, Rockman creates a tension between the naturalistic representation of the animals and their status as icons of a distant past. Rockman has described himself as a "pop artist using natural history as iconography."
Rockman (b. 1962), influenced early on by his mother who worked as an archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History, studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design and later at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has shown his work in numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Creative Time, NY (billboards); The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. His work is in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Wurth Museum, Germany. He has taught at Columbia University and Harvard University.
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Sabre-Toothed Tiger, 2000
Offset lithograph
Sheet: 27 ¼ x 32 ¼ inches
Image: 19 x 16 inches
Paper: Ragcote Matte
Edition: 32
$1,000
Mastodon, 2000
Offset lithograph
Sheet: 27 ¼ x 32 ¼ inches
Image: 21 x 21 inches
Paper: Ragcote Matte
Edition: 32
$1,000
Tiger Beetle, 2000
Offset lithograph
Sheet: 27 ¼ x 32 ¼ inches
Image: 19 x 21 inches
Paper: Ragcote Matte
Edition: 32
$1,000
Tableaux, 2000
Offset lithograph
Sheet: 27 ¼ x 32 ¼ inches
Image: 22 1/2 x 24 inches
Paper: Ragcote Matte
Edition: 32
$1,000