Keith Haring

New York City

Pace Prints currently presents a unique artist’s proof of Keith Haring’s 1990 silkscreen edition, The Blueprint Drawings. Since the week after the show Keith Haring: 1978-1982 opened at the Brooklyn Museum, this monumental scroll is exhibited to the public for the very first time. This unique proof, from Haring’s own collection, contains all 17 images from ‚The Blueprint Drawings‘, printed on one continuous sheet of paper that wraps around our 4th floor exhibition space. The 80-foot long print is generously on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation.

Complementing the exhibition of early works on view at the Brooklyn Museum, this edition was based on Sumi ink drawings Haring created in 1980-81. In 1990, Haring revisited these drawings and reconceived them as a portfolio of 17 silkscreens. The imagery features the inchoate elements of the iconic language associated with Keith Haring to this day – pyramids, flying saucers, dogs and crawling babies are intermixed with wandering figures and human/animal/extraterrestrial activities. According to Haring, “They form a perfect time capsule of my beginning in New York City.”

Pace Prints

March 21st – June 2nd, 2012
521 West 26th Street, 3rd & 4th Floors
New York, NY 10001
USA

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