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The Salt Lake Art Center Opens the National Touring Exhibition, New Narrative: Warhol, Stella, Marden, Fitzpatrick on January 12, 2007.

Salt Lake City, UT - The Salt Lake Art Center presents the exhibition New Narrative: Warhol, Stella, Marden, Fitzpatrick from January 12 to March 17, 2007. The exhibition features four print suites by four exceptional American artists: Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Brice Marden and Tony Fitzpatrick. Each artist presents a narrative series with its own character and relevance. The dazzling, raw colors Warhol assigned to his late silkscreens were new to portraiture, just as Stella's massive-scaled prints of squiggly drawn lines and undulating forms give his works the visual throw of a large scale painting. Even Fitzpatrick's small-scale etchings have the visual snap of graphic illustration. Marden's more subtle monochrome etchings are in keeping with a minimalist goal of a meditative approach. Warhol’s, Stella’s, Marden’s, and Fitzpatrick's original use of abstract and figurative motifs have brought to printmaking an unabashed boldness that is at the heart of the best of late 20th Century American Art.

The series, Ten Portraits Frank Stella's complex abstract print series was of Jews of the Twentieth inspired by El Lissitzky’s illustrations of a Yiddish Century by Andy Warhol, folk song Had Gadya which is a narrative. Stella is very unlike his early reinterpreted 1919 illustrations by incorporating depictions of Pop culture the cubo-futurist- icons or the vanity like pillars and portraits of the art cones, along with world rich and famous. other cut forms Warhol constructs and expressionist a visual narrative marks, in his large

Andy Warhol, Golda Meir (Ten Portraits of Jews in the Twentieth Century), 1980, silkscreen on depicting the history scale prints. Due paper, 42 x 32 in. of Jewish leadership to the numerous through the images of Sarah Bernhardt, Louis methods used -- Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, linoleum block, Frank Stella, A Hungry Cat Ate Up the Goat (Had Gadya series), George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, the Marx Brothers, 1982-84, linoleum block, silkscreen, collage, hand coloring, 55 x 50 in. silkscreen and Golda Meir and Gertrude Stein: all who shaped law, rubber relief printing, collage and hand coloring -- science, film, literature, philosophy, medicine and it took him two years (1982-84) to create the music in the twentieth century. Had Gadya series. . . . more Page 2 -

Brice Marden has The Infinite Wager series, by Tony Fitzpatrick, been committed to represents fantasies about the subject of chance. abstraction According to Fitzpatrick, “All of life is guided by throughout his chance, luck is a very real thing and I like trying to career. His 1971 put a face on it.” His 1998 suite of etchings with portfolio of etch- aquatint are small ings, Ten Days prints, page-like in Series, acted as scale and form an an assessment of inventory of mem- themes and abstract orabilia, governed configurations that he by dice and the Brice Marden, Untitled (Ten Days Series), 1971 had explored up to etching, 33 1/2 x 26 in. that date including numbers and suits monochrome grids as diptychs and triptychs. of playing cards. Produced over the course of ten days, Marden They are extremely approached each etching individually, without intricate, colorful intention for producing a thematically related and symbolic and series. Nonetheless, what he discovered in this, his include text and Tony Fitzpatrick, Moth of Clubs (Infinite Wager series), first print portfolio, was that ideas he expressed in poetry to develop 1998, etching with aquatint, 15 x 13 1/2 in. printmaking strongly mirrored ideas that he was a narrative content. Each of the ten etchings depict simultaneously expressing in drawing and painting. elements of luck, chance or gaming.

The public is invited to attend the Opening Reception for New Narrative: Warhol, Stella, Marden, Fitzpatrick on Friday, January 19, 2007 from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission to the Art Center and Opening Reception is always FREE.

All works courtesy of Art Enterprises, Ltd. This exhibition was made possible through generous support from the Kanter Family Foundation and Art Enterprises, Ltd., the Utah Office of Museum Services, Susan Pearlstine, Sean and Alix Railton, the Friends of Contemporary Art and Alternative Visions.

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