Aug. 31, 2005

© Fred Tomaselli. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photograph and digital image ©…
© Fred Tomaselli. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York
Aug. 31, 2005
© Fred Tomaselli. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
Copyright the artist. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai.

Aug. 31, 2005

Date2009
Artist (American mixed-media artist, born 1956)
MediumEight-color screen print over digital print
Dimensionscomposition: 11 × 13 1/2 in. (27.9 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 15 × 17 1/2 in. (38.1 × 44.5 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2010
Object number2010-20
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextFred Tomaselli's highly patterned paintings and prints combine references to popular culture and important social events. For this screen print, the artist started with an image of the front page of The New York Times—one of the first printed images of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina—and with bright bands of color, traced the course of the floodwaters through the streets of New Orleans.

Tomaselli describes this series of collages as "quietly political," explaining that he "can riff on anything [he] wants, while the horrors of the world become the background buzz."
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