Sean Mellyn

Ripple Chip
1997

A surreal artwork featuring an upside-down head with prominent blue eyes and visible teeth against a background with a bright yellow corner and gray wavy lines below. The image has a hand-drawn quality and includes a signature and date in the bottom right corner.
A surreal artwork featuring an upside-down head with prominent blue eyes and visible teeth against a background with a bright yellow corner and gray wavy lines below. The image has a hand-drawn quality and includes a signature and date in the bottom right corner.

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Date
1997

Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint, photoetching, and woodcut

Dimensions
Sheet: 20 1/8 × 14 13/16in. (51.1 × 37.6 cm) Plate: 17 9/16 × 12 1/2in. (44.6 × 31.8 cm)

Accession number
99.61.4

Edition
19/36

Publication
Printed by Brooklyn Press; published by Maureen Mahony; published by Janis Stemmermann

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/12169

Part of a series:
20" x 15"
4 works

Illustration of three figures with a bold "FAT" headline, exploring themes of body image and self-perception.
A colorful abstract print featuring a circular pattern with various shapes and textures in shades of blue, brown, and pink on a white background. The artwork is signed and dated in the lower right corner.
A surreal artwork featuring an upside-down head with prominent blue eyes and visible teeth against a background with a bright yellow corner and gray wavy lines below. The image has a hand-drawn quality and includes a signature and date in the bottom right corner.
A textured artwork featuring a floral pattern with a brown overlay at the top that fades into a lighter section with visible flowers at the bottom, all on a white background.

Sean Mellyn
3 works in the collection

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