This limited edition original print of a jazz pianist would look great in your music room or home studio!
This hand signed and numbered artwork features a classic retro checkerboard floor and striped wallpaper.
Cool metallic silver throughout the piece contributes to the clean and sophisticated art deco and postmodern feel.
Only about 15 prints remain available.
You will be pleased with your print – it was hard to capture in the photographs how nicely the silver highlights catch the light.
The size of the print is 11”x14,” making it easy to frame using standard sized frames and matboards.
Details
This is one of a series of three musicians, which includes a saxophone player, a bass player and the Chrysler Building. I also have the sets for sale, as well as the bass player as a single. The sax player print has sold out. There are only about 15 of this print that remain available.
Millions Have a Dream is the title of the series with the individual prints titled millions have a dream. (saxophone), long live the people who aim above. (piano player) and man has to be his own saviour. (bass player).
This limited edition of 200 was printed in 1988 by offset lithography at the Thorner-Sidney Press in Buffalo, NY.
The prints are on heavy 80# Frostbrite matte white paper, chosen to accentuate the silver ink.
The mechanicals/separations were drawn by hand using
traditional old school materials such as Rapidographs, X-acto's and
screentones.
They are not in any way digitally rendered or
printed but your will find the lines to be nearly as clean as if done
on the computer. It was a goal of the artist to remove the hand of
the artist by having absolute perfection in execution of the lines.
Most of the remaining prints are numbered in the fifties and seventies, specific numbers may still be available upon request. Please message to check on availability of specific numbers, the artist is happy to accommodate if possible.
Direct from the artist's studio, the prints have been stored archively, in acid free paper and are in perfect condition.
Each individual print will be hand titled, signed and numbered by the artist.
They will be packed with care.
Extra sets or single prints (see other auctions) can be included with no additional shipping charges.
Inspiration
The artist calls her style “postmodern deco pop” and is influenced by the romance and glamour of famed artists such as Erte, Giancarlo Impiglia and Tamara De Lempicka. These 1920s references are then combined with postmodernists such as Michael Graves as seen in the shapes and patterns found in the window frame, the vase and the lighting fixtures.
Her musical inspiration for the series came from the 1980s New York City/East Village club scene and artists/musicians such as John Lurie (whom is the model for the sax player in the series) and his band the Lounge Lizards (influence for the bass player in the series). The piece was conceived and sketched at a Lurie show at the famed Bottom Line nightclub in mid-September 1987.
Another musical influence on the series was Buffalo's David Kane's Them Jazzbeards (Kane is the model for the piano player for this print), a lovingly ironic beatnik themed project that would have existed in the West Village in the 1950s.
About the artist
Originally from Buffalo, NY, candio., now resides in Olympia, WA. Throughout the past thirty years, this award winning artist has enjoyed recognition from the art world and public alike. Her work is in collections across the United States as well as internationally.
She recently was named a “significant Buffalo artist” by Buffalo Rising in a review of Underground Buffalo Rock Posters The Continental and Beyond, a compilation book including candio's graphic work from the 1980s.
Her large scale paintings
have hung in many galleries and museums including Hallwalls
Contemporary Arts Center, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
She created a landmark
mural in Buffalo, in 2009, she was a member of the production team
for the Olympia-RafahSolidarity Mural Project, which included
the work of over 200 artists including many from Rafah on the Gaza
strip.
Currently, Candy is interested in doing commissions documenting beloved pet's through portraiture in various media, either alone or in various combinations of art and craft. She has done work on canvas edged with beadwork, tapestry and embroidery, soft sculpture, ceramics and found objects.
Compliments from clients
“It's an incredible piece – my compliments. I love Art Deco, and especially the Chrysler Building, so I knew I have to have your print when I saw it. It will definitely make my holiday brighter...” (12/5/00 email from ebay client)
“Breathtaking Art Deco print! Shipped extremely fast w/ excellent packaging.” (12/8/99 ebay feedback)
“Your terrific print arrived today, and we already have it framed and hung in our Art Deco bedroom! We are so thrilled with it, just as we were with another print your yours thsat we bought, “She Doesn't Have Anything You'd Want to Steal...” The two of them arfe now hanging in adjacent corners, and they add just the right touch of Art Deco class to the room...We will show your prints off to everyone who visits us.” (1/23/01 email from ebay client)
“Thanks for the prints. I can say with confidence, they exceed my expectations.” (2/26/00 ebay feedback)
“I am very impressed with the print “the killing moon will come too soon.” You are truly a wonderful artist – I can;t even describe how I feel or what I truly think about your art right now. You were sooo right when you wrote “I think you will be pleased with the print, the photos don't really show how nice the silver is, and the differerent ways it catches the light!” I am really just diggin' it to the max.” (5/18/00 email from ebay client)
“Anyone interested in art deco prints should own at least one by candio.” (7/20/00 ebay feedback)
Thank you for the compliments, it feels good as an artist to make people happy with my work.
Other work
Please see my other auctions for other prints. Additional prints will ship for free.
Thank you!