Object number1991.22.13
Aerobatic Sky Art Project Jebah Baum for SUNY Purchase, from The Atelier Project 1983-1986
Date1979
Artist
Steve Poleskie
(American, 1938-2019)
CultureAmerican
MediumScreen print on Arches cover paper
EditionEdition 3 of 100
DimensionsImage: 19 11/16 x 27 15/16 in. (50 x 71 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57.1 x 76.5 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57.1 x 76.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Philip and Lynn Straus, class of 1946
Period20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower right corner in pencil: Poleskie
InscribedOn recto, lower left corner in pencil: 3/100; lower center in pencil: Aerobatic Sky Art Project for SUNY Purchase
MarkingsOn recto, lower left [blind stamp]: Visual Arts Division / Center for Editions / Purchase, New York / SUNY Purchase
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Label TextAfter starting out as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the 1950s, Stephen Poleskie eventually developed a more daring mark-making strategy: trailing smoke and motor oil from customized biplanes to stage an “aerial theater.” He documented his ephemeral, “four-dimensional” aerial maneuvers in two-dimensional works. In a 1988 review of Poleskie’s collages, one critic wrote, “He challenges the rigid hierarchical order of Renaissance perspective and presents a more complex, fluctuating world-view reflective of individual experience.”
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