QUARTET

Portfolio of four lithographs, 18 x 18 inches each, featuring hand-leafed works by Serena Bocchino

First released at POP AUSTIN International Art Fair (2014).

Inspired by Bocchino’s visual interpretations of American jazz music, including that of the most creative Saxophonist in America, James Carter. This portfolio includes a CD signed by both artists.

Published by Greg Smith, Exhibit A Fine Art and Editions
and completed with the assistance of:
Kim Michalak
Sandra Sewing Getz
Lily Zhang

The QUARTET project consists of 20 sets (4 prints per set) of Numbered Impressions
5 Artist Proofs, 3 Printers Proofs, and 1 BAT

The portfolio box for QUARTET is a black linen two-sided box produced by PORTFOLIOBOX, Warren, Rhode Island.

RUSH CRUSH RUSH

Edition of 20 Monoprints exhibited in the
NEW PRINTS/2014 SUMMER exhibition

International Print Center of New York
and at Christie’s, New York, Summer 2014.

The print was created at the Printmaking Center of New Jersey,
Created with the assistance of Master Printer, Jenn Consoli

Monoprinting allows for the creative spontaneity that is essential to my work. In Rush Crush Rush, I utilized a variety of materials (silkscreen, drawing with graphite and charcoal and guilding using gold, silver and copper leaf) to create a composition that moves. The drawing elements are juxtaposed to the silkscreened image producing a contrast that activates the two dimensional plane. The guilded leaf creates an additional spatial dynamic in contrast to the natural wood surface. The combination of these visual elements maintain the characteristics intrinsic to visual abstraction as it relates to musical form.

SIMPATICO

The Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper

Created during Bocchino’s time in residency at the Brodsky Center Print Center

Created with the assistance of Master Printer, Eileen Foti

Simpatico is based on an oil and enamel painting from Bocchino’s Romance Series. The print is composed of alitho plate, silkscreen plates, pochoir, and blind embossing. For the litho plate Bocchino “painted” with a black powder substance seeking to achieve an atmospheric ethereal image similar to a charcoal drawing. The silkscreen plates were created from photographing lines created from poured enamel paint. The pochoir (hand-colored stencil painting) was skillfully and carefully produced using silkscreen inks to simulate oil paint, which is identifiable to my work. The embossing utilized bent wire, a material that Bocchino enjoys using due to its line quality and pliable nature.

Special thanks to Eileen Foti, Lynne Allen and Judith Brodsky at the Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper, who made the printmaking process a challenging and exciting experience. Also, special thanks to Greg Smith from Exhibit A in SoHo, for his generosity and support.

 Simpatico has been exhibited at  following venues: Trenton State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; Drasdale Galleries, Bridgeport, CT; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania State University Galleries, State College, PA; Corcoran Gallery and School, Washington, DC; Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Arkansas State University Galleries, Jonesboro, AK; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana, IN; Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA