1970s David Roth Signed and Numbered Edition Screenprint 'Untitled 25'

Description

Editioned 1979 Screenprint by David Roth (American 1942)
Signed and numbered in pencil
edition 6/150
Image size: 23in x23in
Overall … more Editioned 1979 Screenprint by David Roth (American 1942)
Signed and numbered in pencil
edition 6/150
Image size: 23in x23in
Overall size: 29in x29in


About The Artist:
David Roth, one of the most important conceptual abstract artists of the past 45 years. David Roth studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design and was twice the recipient at the Maholy-Nagy Scholarship in visual design.
It was Roth's initial work as a designer at fine art for commercial use that brought him interesting positions as art director for such firms as Lanvin, Charles at the Ritz, and Germain Monteil. Establishing his color programs on graph paper, Roth uses the programs as a guide in translating that configuration into string dyed in Liquitex. The strings are tied in bunches and closely hung tram a wooden bar. The size and shape of the string is similar to that at a canvas painting. Each bundle is represented by a vertical row at squares on the graph and the groupings at string are lined up along the wall according to the horizontal rows at the program. The six primary and secondary colors are used in their full intensity along with black, grey, and white. As a painter Roth works to formulate with color. The graphs Roth executes are proportioned according to a strict mathematical formula where the pictures are Composed according to horizontal and vertical divisions on the graph paper. The optical quality of color, deliberately sought, has its roots in the Bauhaus investigations of illusion, and thus has a direct relationship to the Op art produced in postwar Europe. Roth has arranged his hues so as to persuade the planes to separate from the ground on which they are planted and float free in space. Although the graphs appear to vary in their use of color the same colors are used throughout, also the same amount of color. Roth's work illustrates the sophistication of the human eye-brain relationship that has developed and invites the viewer to participate in the evolution at visionary ideas. less