Amy Sillman, Jef Scharf

backdrop freeze

1999

Not on view

Date
1999

Classification
Prints

Medium
Color aquatint and screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/16 × 9 in. (28.4 × 22.9 cm) Plate: 3 13/16 × 5 3/4 in. (9.7 × 14.6 cm)

Accession number
2012.136.3

Edition
1/25

Publication
Printed and published by Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. New York

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/41742

Part of a series:
Funny-Guy, Junior
12 works

A lone figure stands near an overturned canoe with the caption "a bad trip in a national forest."
A person stands beside a body in a coffin with text reading "another way to speak to the dead".
A simple line drawing of a curved serpent-like boat shooting a flame, with the word "asp" below.
Stylized blue and white mountain peaks under a starry black sky with red text "backdrop freeze."
Yellow abstract figure lying above a green line with the text "I am the sole survivor" beneath.
Two hands reach toward a textured black circle above red text 'mere aether'.
A pink inflatable deer-like figure with antlers stands above the printed words "my protector."
A red linocut-style woman holds a rectangular sign, with the words "nuts, jugs, muffs" beneath.
Three skeletal heart shapes float above a grid in a green print labeled "pernicious."
An orange satirical print showing two distorted faces and the word "SATIRE" with definition.


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