Artist: George Chemeche - Iraqi/American (1934-2022)
Title: Dancing Ducks in Red, Yellow, Green, Blue
Year: circa 1980
Medium: Screen Print
Image size: 19 x 27 inches.
Sheet size: 22 x 29 inches.
Signature: Signed lower right
Edition: 260 This one: 87/260
Condition: Very good
Unframed

This exceptional geometric abstract serigraph is by the noted Iraqi/American artist George Chemeche (1934-2022 ). He is a master of serigraph printing, but this print has more than technical excellence. It is a wonderful, rhythmic abstract composition. I believe Chemeche might have been a proponent of and/or influenced by the Pattern and Decoration Movement which was happening in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. The print has never been framed and is in excellent condition. I will ship the print rolled in a heavyweight tube.

George Chemeche was born in 1934 and studied at the Avni Art School in Tel Aviv and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style with which he is intimately associated, pattern painting, The most serviceable definition is that pattern is the systematic repetition of a motif or motifs used to cover a surface uniformly. The spaces between motifs are either other motifs or are an integral part of the repeat. Usually, patterning intentionally acknowledges the decorative function of art, reconciling both the decorative and the meaningful.

George Chemeche's work hangs in the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea where many have admired it for years. Please search online for more biographical information by this fine artist.

Selected Biography
1934 Born in Basra, Iraq
1947 Fled Iraq with his family
1947-49 Lives and attends school in Tehran
1949 Immigrates to Israel
1956-59 Studies art in Avni Art School, Tel-Aviv
1959 Gets American-Israeli Culture Foundation grant to study art in Paris
1959-1962 Studies at Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
1961- Gets two years grant from Lady Francis Fergusson, Scotland
1962 Gets one year grant from Alex de Rothschild, Paris First man show at Gallery Transposition, Paris
1965-72 Exhibits his work in numerous art galleries in Israel including one man show at Haifa Museum
1972 Travels to New York, checks in the Hotel Chelsea
1977-- First one-man show in USA at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, followed by other shows around the country and Europe.
1995 Travels to Iceland to publish the Aya Series book. Text by Donald Kuspit; Art Resourses & Technologies, New York, NY
2002 Publishes, Ibejis: "The Cult of Yoruba Twins" 5 Continents Edition, Milan, Italy
2003 Curates a show at Museum of African Art, NYC Ibejis: The Doubly Blessed Twins
2005 Reads his poems at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York
2010 Lectures about Ibeji art and cult at Iowa University
2011 Lectures about Ibeji Art and cult at Neuberger Museum
2011 Publishes, The Horse Rider in African Art" ACC, UK

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
1978 Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1977 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
1977 Alexandra Monett Gallery, Brussels
1977 Givon Art GaJIery, Tel Aviv
1974 South Houston Gallery, New York
1974 Ray Landis Gallery, East Brunswick, New Jersey
1973 Gala Gallery, Key Biscayne, Florida
1973 Art Asia Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.
1973 Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York
1972 Selected Artists Gallery, New York
1972 Mabat Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1971 Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1970 Modern Art Gallery, Old Jaffa
1969 Dugith Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1968 Dugith Art Gallery, Te Aviv
1967 Hadassa "K" Klachkin Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1966 Rina Art Gallery, Jerusalem
1966 The Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
1965 Chemerinsky Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1963 Galerie Transposition, Paris Collective Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions:
1978 Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, "Six Artists"
1978 Biv Gallery, New York, "Chelsea Artists"
1978 Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
1978 "FJ.A.C.," Petit Palais Paris
1978 Galerie Naire, Paris
1977 Weintraub Gallery, New York, Print Show
1971 OHana Gallery, London "Six Artists", Modern Art Gallery, Old Jaffa
1969 The Autumn Exhibition, Tel Aviv Museum
1965 "Young Artists", TeJ Aviv Museum
1963 Salon de La Jeune Peinture, Musee d'art Moderne, Paris

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Brooklyn Museum, New York.
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca
Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Haifa Museum, Israel


Condition:
Alterations: Original Condition Unaltered
Imperfections: Some Imperfections
Condition Notes: Excellent condition.

Origin:
United States

Materials & Techniques:
Paper, Screen Print

Details:
Frame Type: Unframed
Art Subjects: Animals, Abstract
What type of item is it? Vintage / Antique / Used
Country of Origin: United States

Original Condition Unaltered; Some Imperfections; Excellent condition.