Dan Rizzie : Editions / Variations

The Drawing Room in East Hampton is pleased to present "Dan Rizzie | Editions / Variations", on view July 9 through August 3, 2015. This is the first exhibition to focus on the innovative prints Rizzie has created in collaboration with master printers at renowned etching and lithography workshops over the last 25 years. Exploring printmaking with his characteristically inventive approach to process, Rizzie turns each intaglio, woodcut or lithography project into an archeological experience. Building each print image from layers of intricately worked plates and adding hand coloring and collage, the artist improvises subtle techniques to preserve the spontaneity of his eclectic vision.

Widely recognized as a painter with original, buoyant imagery that mixes nature and abstraction with formal elements descended from Modernism, Rizzie's graphic iconography often draws from his childhood memories growing up in Egypt, Jordan, India and the Caribbean. Central to his prints are vivid recollections of gardens with exotic plant and bird life. In prints titled Lotus, Piccolo Fiore or Lodi Garden he imagines new species and maps the blossoms as mandalas. In Picabia Portrait, Rizzie honors one of his Modern Art heroes with a sassy rendition of a partying flower dressed in a sumptuous hand colored intaglio.

See below for full press release and selected works.