Dan walsh
The New York painter Dan Walsh has long had parallel practices in printmaking and bookmaking. While a painter’s works on paper are often either preliminary sketches or after-the-fact reproductions, Walsh has always taken a more experimental and playful approach. In book form, he works through progressions, running his vocabulary of forms through incremental expansions and digressions, always on the watch for a new composition that might suddenly come into view. With regard to printmaking, it’s often been noted that his approach to painting has much in common with woodblock and silkscreen printing, in which layers of varying transparency are built up atop one another. Walsh applies paint to his canvases in passes, each color inverting and offsetting the ones underneath. This way of working requires a fair degree of planning crossed with a willingness to risk diversions in the moment. Perhaps it’s this combination of steadfastness and improvisation that allows Walsh to keep finding ways to evolve his structures in surprising directions.
Dan Walsh
“SUPPLY”
14 colors Screenprint
37” x 37” / Saunders Waterford
・Limited EDITION OF 20
・signed by artist
・Published by Keigo Prints Inc.
This latest silkscreen edition entitled “Supply” is closely modeled on his painting called “Surplus” from 2020. For this print version Walsh proposed that the criss-crossing lozenges be bisected into two colors. Given that the curved ends of these painted lozenges are carefully formed by a brush of that very same width, it would be impossible to split these colors in a painting. But because Walsh doesn’t ask for prints to mimic his paintings, he is free to use a print like this as a kind of oblique mirror, distorting a familiar structure in order to find the new ones to come.
Koichi Sato
koichi sato, born in 1974 in Tokyo, Japan, is a self-taught artist currently based in New york city.Inspired by a childhood filled with Television, sports, and pop culture imagery, his work reflects a playful reinvention of these influences through bold stylization, patterns, and vibrant color. Sato has garnered a dedicated following among art collectors, with his distinctive, nostalgic style and bold use of color making his works highly sought after. His unique ability to merge retro aesthetics with bold, playful contemporary themes has resonated with collectors worldwide, further solidifying his reputation in the contemporary art world. His works have been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at “jack Hanley Gallery”, “the hole” and “Ross+Kramer Gallery” in new york city, as well as “nanzuka” in tokyo, among others.
Koichi Sato
“Pele” 2021
13 colors Screenprint WITH HAND FINISHING BY THE ARTIST
24” x 15” / CONVENTRY RAG 320gsm
・Unique EDITION OF 10 (ONLY a FEW available)
・signed by artist
・Available for custom frame (White wash color)
・Published by Keigo Prints Inc.