Mark Mann Studio is pleased to announce the release of a limited-edition silkscreen print from the series Red Shift drawings. ‘Couple with Fiesta Skull, 2019/21 presages our collective challenges in 2020. It is a mundane yet darkly humorous take on mortality and continues my fascination with the intersection of crisis and play that occurs throughout one’s life. This series is influenced by the “red shifting” of photographic prints that occurred in the late 1970s and early 1980s due to the instability of the paper and dyes used in some print processes at the time. With that in mind, I use a combination of odd scenes and physical struggles to capture a side of the American character experiencing the effects of a shifting environment— both physical and cultural.
All prints are in an edition of 30, 16 x 20” paper size printed as 3 color silkscreen on Coventry Rag by Leslie Diuguid / Du-Good Press, Brooklyn.