About The Work
Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present three new prints by the renowned artist Dread Scott, created in 2022 through the Printshop’s invitational Publishing Residency Program.
Dread Scott “makes revolutionary art to propel history forward.” Although his primary focus throughout his career has been on the experience of African Americans in the United States, the three symbols he explores here undoubtedly touch us all—architectural and visual projections of the three branches of American government and power. Scott remains sincere in his desire for a better society for all of us. He is fiercely critical, with a mordant sense of humor, while encouraging the viewer to re-examine the ideals of American society.
For this series of large-scale screenprints, Scott has selected photographs of three symbols of American power and “obliterated” them with hand additions. For the first time in his impressively diverse practice, he puts painting and drawing front and center. His vigorous and gestural drawing was translated into layers of subtly colored screenprints, printed over the archival inkjet photo background.
Although Scott has had the idea for quite a while, and the work on the series started in early 2022, the current events make the images particularly germane today.
About Dread Scott
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Pale and Interesting? No! These Works are White Hot. . .
- Interviews & Features: Making History Contemporary: “Half the Picture” Curator on Presenting 100 Years of Art Through a Feminist Lens
- Interviews & Features: Hank Willis Thomas on How His Artist-Run Super PAC Will Disrupt the 2016 Election
Screenprint on archival inkjet print
26.50 x 40.00 in
67.3 x 101.6 cm
This work is signed by the artist in pencil, and is embossed with the publisher's printing chop.
About The Work
Lower East Side Printshop is pleased to present three new prints by the renowned artist Dread Scott, created in 2022 through the Printshop’s invitational Publishing Residency Program.
Dread Scott “makes revolutionary art to propel history forward.” Although his primary focus throughout his career has been on the experience of African Americans in the United States, the three symbols he explores here undoubtedly touch us all—architectural and visual projections of the three branches of American government and power. Scott remains sincere in his desire for a better society for all of us. He is fiercely critical, with a mordant sense of humor, while encouraging the viewer to re-examine the ideals of American society.
For this series of large-scale screenprints, Scott has selected photographs of three symbols of American power and “obliterated” them with hand additions. For the first time in his impressively diverse practice, he puts painting and drawing front and center. His vigorous and gestural drawing was translated into layers of subtly colored screenprints, printed over the archival inkjet photo background.
Although Scott has had the idea for quite a while, and the work on the series started in early 2022, the current events make the images particularly germane today.
About Dread Scott
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Pale and Interesting? No! These Works are White Hot. . .
- Interviews & Features: Making History Contemporary: “Half the Picture” Curator on Presenting 100 Years of Art Through a Feminist Lens
- Interviews & Features: Hank Willis Thomas on How His Artist-Run Super PAC Will Disrupt the 2016 Election
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