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Center Hum East

Emil Lukas and Durham Press, Durham, Pennsylvania

Center Hum East

2011

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Center Hum East

2011

Physical Qualities Color screenprint, Sheet: 956 x 739 mm. (37 5/8 x 29 1/8 in.) Image: 817 x 611 mm. (32 3/16 x 24 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Print, Drawing & Photograph Society Fund, with proceeds derived from the 2012 Contemporary Print Fair
Object Number 2012.200
WRAP. Emil Lukas’ glowing screenprint is made by wrapping household string around a frame many times and photographically exposing that wrapped frame to a screenprinting screen. This produces an image on the screen of the shapes of the many strings, which can be printed using any color of ink. Each color in the print represents one of many frames. Lukas focuses on the circumstances of the action rather than on the making of marks; the image records a process rather than mimicking an appearance. It is both controlled chaos and a celebration of the ordinary. Pittsburgh native Lukas lives and works in Stockerton, Pennsylvania.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2012; Durham Press, Durham, PA
Ann Shafer, "On Paper: Spin, Crinkle, Pluck," April 19 - September 20, 2015.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "4/25"; lower right in graphite: "Emil Lukas 2011"

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