Step up
2013
A bold and gestural screenprint by British-born New York artist James Nares, 'Step up' (2013) captures the artist's signature fluid brushstroke aesthetic rendered in deep violet and black across a cream handmade paper ground. Printed in ten colors on heavy Saunders 410g handmade paper, the work translates Nares's large-scale painterly energy into a refined edition format. The sweeping, centrifugal composition evokes movement and spontaneity, closely related to his celebrated slow-motion video works exploring the arc of a single brushstroke. This example is edition 23 of 44, a relatively small edition size that underscores the work's collectibility.
- Medium
- Screen-print in ten colors on Saunders 410g handmade paper
- Dimensions
- Edition
- 23 of 44
- Signed
- Yes
Notes
Work is framed as shown in the document photograph. Paper weight: Saunders 410g handmade paper. Ten-color screenprint. Edition 23 of 44.
Artists in conversation
Pat Steir
American · b. 1940
Steir creates large scale gestural screenprints and paintings built around sweeping, fluid mark making in deep blacks and layered colors on substantial paper grounds, directly paralleling Nares's centrifugal brushstroke translated into refined edition format.
Brice Marden
American · b. 1938
Marden's screenprints and works on paper feature bold calligraphic gestural strokes in deep violets and blacks rendered with painterly fluidity on heavyweight paper, sharing Nares's quality of spontaneous movement captured in a controlled printmaking medium.
Julie Mehretu
American · b. 1970
Mehretu's large format prints and works on paper translate energetic gestural abstraction into multi layered screenprint editions, combining sweeping centrifugal mark making with bold chromatic contrast in ways that closely echo the visual energy and printmaking ambition of Nares's Step Up.
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