Print - Abstract Silkscreen by Merrill Shatzman - Seescapes #3

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This 1993 vibrant, silkscreen print is pencil signed by the artist, Merrill Shatzman, Professor of the Practice, Duke University in … more This 1993 vibrant, silkscreen print is pencil signed by the artist, Merrill Shatzman, Professor of the Practice, Duke University in NC. It is titled, and numbered 1/20 in the lower margin. With a sophisticated, eye-catching bright pink frame and vanilla matting, it is sure to steal the show wherever is is displayed. It retains the label to the frame verso.

The artist received her B.F.A. degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and M.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work as an abstract printmaker includes images in relief, silkscreen, lithography, bookmaking and digital media. Over the past fifteen years her prints have been exhibited in ninety solo, invitational, group and juried shows throughout the United States and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (April 2009), Roanoke College (2008).

Her work is found in numerous museum and corporate collections in the United States including: the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Boston Public Library, The Fogg Museum, UCLA's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, the Huntsville Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Art, California State University Long Beach, Museum of Art, Texas Tech University, National Museum of American Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution. Her most recent prints combine digital imaging and silkscreen printing, uniquely highlighting the similarities between these different media through her abstract, highly patterned written forms. less