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.

 

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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 Supérieure 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