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White Terms

1987

Curlee Raven Holton

(American, b. 1951)
Culture
America
Medium
lithograph
Measurements
Sheet: 43.2 x 32.9 cm (17 x 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
L. E. Holden Fund 2023.168
Edition
edition of 20
Impression
3
Copyright
© Curlee Raven Holton
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Curlee Raven Holton has discussed being drawn to lithography for its physicality, which reminds him of his father’s work as a forger.

Description

Contemporary printmaker Curlee Raven Holton grew up in Cleveland and learned about art by visiting the Cleveland Museum of Art while studying at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Holton went on to study printmaking with the legendary printmaker Robert Blackburn and, later, to found the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College. This print was inspired by Holton’s time in Cleveland—specifically an encounter with a visiting activist from South Africa, whose discussion of Apartheid led him to combine Xerox images with drawing on and carving into a lithographic stone to consider race relations through this image.
A vertically oriented black ink print on white paper features hands reaching up out of clusters of faces of different sizes into a blank upper third, all shapes having a blotted, grainy quality. The largest, bearded face looks out at us from just left of center. A person leans forward on their right and crowds of people below them, interspersed with additional headshots. Two rows of white barbed wire run across a black lower edge.

White Terms

1987

Curlee Raven Holton

(American, b. 1951)
America

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