'Coburn Projects-PULSE NYC' by Retna, 2014
Original postcard from the artist's solo show at Coburn Projects for PULSE NYC, 2014.
6 x 4 Inches
15.2 x 10.2 Centimeters
11 x 9 x 0.8 Inches (framed)
Screen print on white cardstock.
From an edition of unknown size.
Full show details on reverse.
*Note: Float-framed in glass and white MDF moulding.
ABOUT THE ART
New works on paper, commissioned frfom the artist for PULSE New York, 2014
RETNA has a broad interest in the pictorial language of ancient cultures. The hieroglyphics and calligraphy that he has long studied developed into an improvised language that is at once familiar and unknowable. RETNA deconstructs the readymade nature of alphabets by stepping them of their communicative function and empowers his mark making with the sentiment of Modernist abstraction.
RETNA explains, "I want my text to feel universal. I want people from different cultures to all find some similarity in it --whether they can read it or not."
RETNA, born Marquis Lewis, 1979, is a Los Angeles-based artist. He has been an important contributor to the street art scene since the early 1990s and received international acclaim from his contribution to "Art in the Streets," the first major museum of graffiti and street art at MOCA LA.