Ross Bleckner (b.1949)
"Swinging Door - Black, Gray, Cream"
etching and aquatint
edition of 35
28" x 28"
"Swinging Door - Black, Green"
etching and aquatint
edition of 35
28" x 28" (SOLD)
"Bonfire"
etching and aquatint
edition of 35
28" x 28" (SOLD)
"Just Because I"
screenprint
edition of 75
33" x 42" (SOLD)
"Just Because II"
screenprint
edition of 75
33" x 42" (SOLD)
"Light Flower"
archival pigment print
edition of 50
30" x 30" (SOLD)
About the Artist
Ross Bleckner (b. 1949), is perhaps best known for his paintings dealing with loss and memory. He notably tackled the emotional toll brought on by the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
“Life is short and goes by fast,” he has said. “And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.”
His poetic works often employ recurring symbolic imagery, such as candelabras, doves, and flowers, rendered with a blurred, glowing sense of light.
Bleckner studied alongside artists Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close. He received his BA from New York University, NYC in 1971 and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California in 1973.
He was the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1995.
Bleckner’s work are held in collections around the world, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, among others.
