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Mel Bochner — Scoundrel
Mel Bochner

Scoundrel

Mel Bochner's *Scoundrel* is a boldly expressive monoprint combining vibrant oil paint in colors with tactile embossing on heavy handmade paper, showcasing the artist's signature integration of language and visual art. The word itself commands the composition with Bochner's characteristic typographic intensity, rendered in rich, layered hues that amplify its provocative charge. The full sheet presentation highlights the raw materiality of the handmade paper, lending the work a striking physicality that reinforces its irreverent, confrontational spirit.

Medium
Monoprint with embossing and oil paint in colors, on heavy handmade paper, the full sheet.

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April 24, 2018

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Mel Bochner, Scoundrel

Mel Bochner's *Scoundrel* is a boldly expressive monoprint combining vibrant oil paint in colors with tactile embossing on heavy handmade paper, showcasing the artist's signature integration of language and visual art. The word itself commands the composition with Bochner's characteristic typographic intensity, rendered in rich, layered hues that amplify its provocative charge. The full sheet presentation highlights the raw materiality of the handmade paper, lending the work a striking physicality that reinforces its irreverent, confrontational spirit.

Medium
Monoprint with embossing and oil paint in colors, on heavy handmade paper, the full sheet.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Bold Colors, Male Artist, Provocative Mood, Conceptual Art, Oil Paint, Contemporary Artist, American Artist, Typography, Embossing, Monoprint, Abstract, Text-Based Art

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Lisa Rembrandt, Derek Jones