

Digital Iris Print "Fangled No-Being" Pencil Signed with Initials edition of 15
1990
"Fangled No-Being" is a color Iris digital print on paper, produced in 1990 as part of Long's Internalized Page Project, Vol. II, printed and published by Muse X in Los Angeles in an edition of fifteen. The work is initialed by the artist on the verso and carries its edition number, lending it the careful, considered intimacy characteristic of fine art multiples at this scale. At 27.9 by 21.6 centimeters, the print operates in an immediate, almost manuscript-like register, inviting close looking. A version of this work entered the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where it is catalogued as a digital print, confirming the institutional weight carried by this modest but significant edition. Charles Long, born in 1958 in Long Branch, New Jersey, trained at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, pursued graduate study at Yale University, and completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. He is today a professor at the University of California, Riverside, and has been the subject of major solo presentations at institutions including The Contemporary Austin, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the Orange County Museum of Art, and Madison Square Park. His work has featured in two Whitney Biennials and in group exhibitions at MoMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, and MCA Chicago, among many others. In 2008 he received the Award of Merit Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Long's broader practice has long probed the psychological dimensions of the art object, working across sculpture, installation, and print with materials as unexpected as coffee grounds, rubber, and hair attributed to Abraham Lincoln. His collaborations with musicians including Stereolab and Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, as well as with choreographer Merce Cunningham, speak to an expansive, cross-disciplinary sensibility. "Fangled No-Being" distills that sensibility into a quietly radical printed form, and its presence in a storied institutional collection makes this a rare opportunity for collectors seeking a documented, edition-controlled work from an artist with a firmly established international standing. The print is offered without frame, presenting itself openly for bespoke presentation.
- Medium
- Digital Print
- Sheet
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Lions Gallery, Surfside, FL
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Lions GalleryView on map
For Sale — $450
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