{"id":345,"date":"2016-12-30T03:42:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2017-01-28T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T19:55:09","slug":"robert-kushner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/robert-kushner\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Kushner, 2013 – 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Kushner observes as Peter Pettengill registers a collage onto an etched copper plate that has been inked and wiped for printing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kushner fields questions from students regarding his work and his collaboration with Peter at Smith College.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Robert Kushner<\/strong>
\nPeter Pettengill, printer
\n2014 – 2015<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Workshop: October 15\u201317, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Widely recognized as a leading figure in the Pattern and Decoration style of painting that emerged in American art in the 1960s and 1970s. Kushner\u2019s work often features botanical subjects placed against abstract or geometric backgrounds. According to the artist: \u201cDecoration, an abjectly pejorative dismissal for many, is a very big, somewhat defiant declaration for me. \u2026 The eye can wander, the mind think unencumbered through visual realms that are expansively and emotionally rich. Decoration has always had its own agenda, the sincere and unabashed offering of pleasure and solace.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kushner\u2019s project for the Smith College Print Workshop was a natural outgrowth of his most recent project, Scriptorium:Devout Exercises of the Heat<\/em>. This installation consists of over 1,000 drawings of plants and flowers on antique book pages. The print series O Aloe<\/em> takes a similar form\u2014a bold drawing of an aloe plant rendered in lift-ground aquatint is juxtaposed against a collage of printed elements from newspapers, books, and magazines that span cultures and decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Kushner. American, 1949 \u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

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O Aloe XXI: Lovely Ladies III, 2014
Sugarlift aquatint monoprint on
antique collaged paper mounted
on Rives BFK
Printed by Peter Pettengill assisted
by James Pettengill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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O Aloe I: Massachusetts I, 2014
Sugarlift aquatint monoprint on antique
collaged paper mounted on Rives BFK
Printed by Peter Pettengill assisted
by James Pettengill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Kushner Peter Pettengill, printer 2014 – 2015 Workshop: October 15\u201317, 2014 Widely recognized as a leading figure in the Pattern and Decoration style of painting that emerged in American art in the 1960s and 1970s. Kushner\u2019s work often features botanical subjects placed against abstract or geometric backgrounds. According to the artist: \u201cDecoration, an abjectly … Continue reading Robert Kushner, 2013 – 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-345","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/345\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/printmaking-workshop-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}