FRANK FAULKNER SCREENPRINT WITH GOLD PRISMACOLOR: FRANK FAULKNER (American, b. 1946), Screenprint with hand-applied gold prismacolor, titled, "Palm I", signed and numbered, "5/18 Palm I Faulkner 1996", embossed Berghoff-Cowden Editions stamp, 44"h x 33.5".

ABOUT THE BERGHOFF-COWDEN EDITIONS COLLECTION- The Berghoff Art Gallery first opened in the 1980Â’s as Soho South Gallery in Safety Harbor, Florida. In 1988, Lois Berghoff and Dorothy Cowden evolved the Gallery into the Berghoff-Cowden Editions, a collaborative, screenprint workshop first located in a converted warehouse by the University of Tampa, Florida and ultimately settling in New Port Richey, Florida. The workshop specialized in publishing unique and small editions of hand-pulled screen-prints and monoprints.

The environment created within this experimental workshop inspired artists to innovate conventional screen printing techniques in a creative manner never seen before or since. Their editions included hand-painting, collage, flocking, cutting and stitching, paper manipulation such as folding, layering and cutting as well as the incorporation of exotic fabrics and layered Japanese papers. The eclectic creative-processes of the workshop attracted a diverse, global group of renowned artists working in several movements including abstraction, expressionism, realism, sculpture and pattern and decoration. A partial roster of artists who create exceptional works in this space includes: Miriam “Mimi” Schapiro (Canadian, American, b. 1923 – d. 2015), Brad Davis (American, b. 1942), Frank Faulkner (American, 1946), Sam Gilliam (American, b. 1933), Roberto Juarez (American, b. 1952), George Sugarman (American, b. 1912 – d. 1999) and Robert Rahway Zakanitch (American, b. 1935). The workshop also invited Italian artists Marilu Eustachio (Italian, b. 1934), Oliviero Rainaldi (Italian, b. 1956) and Cloti Ricciardi (Italian, 20th / 21st centuries).

Recognizing the importance of this collaboration, The Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida, curated and exhibited a collection of these works from the collection of Dorothy Mitchell entitled, “Expanding Expressions” this exhibit was supported by the Polk Museum of Art, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council and was exhibited throughout the United States at several prominent museums from 1997 until early 2000. Rare-Era is honored to offer hand-selected pieces from this magical time directly from the Berghoff Personal Collection, these choice examples of the editions have never been offered publicly.

Refs. 1.) Lois & Linda Berghoff. 2.) Bennett, Lennie. “Paper as a Malleable Medium,” St. Petersburg Times. Published July 13, 2003, http://www.sptimes.com/2003/07/13/news_pf/Floridian/Paper_as_a_malleable_.shtml, accessed: October 28, 2017. 3.) Bennett, Lennie. “The Leepa-Rattner Msueum of Art Reinvents its Space and its Collection,” Tampa Bay Times. Published November 12, 2011. http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/the-leepa-rattner-museum-of-art-reinvents-its-spaceand-its-collection/1200603 , accessed: October 28, 2017. 4.) Schroeder, Ivy. “Expanding Expressions: Contemporary Master Prints, UM St. Louis’ Gallery 210,” Riverfront Times. Published December 15, 1999, https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/expanding-expressions-contemporary-masterprints/Content?oid=2475571, Accessed: October 28, 2017.

BIOGRAPHY: FRANK FAULKNER (American, b. 1946) Born in Sumter, South Carolina in 1946, Frank Faulkner received his B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1968, Phi Beta Kappa, and his M.F.A. from the same institution in 1972.

Faulkner's work quickly won him numerous grants and awards, including an individual artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974. He was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 1975, which prompted him to settle in New York. There, he came to the attention of Dorothy Miller, Curator Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art with a legendary eye for new talent. Since then, Faulkner has continued to garner acclaim and awards. He has been featured in dozens of one-person and group exhibitions in America, Japan, Switzerland, and Germany. Faulkner utilizes numerous materials and techniques including metal, wood and fabric as well as canvas and paper, creating patterns and designs he refers to as the "the gymnastics of seeing." He works and reworks the surfaces of his images, often laying down one thin layer of slightly reflective gold, silver or bronze paint upon another until the final work seems to glow with inner light. This overlay of gold is seen in the monoprints he completed for the Berghoff-Cowden Editions. Faulkner's current work, a series of paintings on paper, continues and deepens this exploration of the relationship between wrought surface and changing light. Another striking aspect of the work is the influence of the decorative arts. To him, the applied arts are indistinguishable from the fine art. He knows and loves Samurai armor, Classical architectural details, chinoiserie, Persian rugs—the whole gamut of the applied arts—and they, of course, inform his creations. Indeed, he is so interested in interiors that he has, while continuing to paint, spent much of the last decade restoring old houses and advising clients how to decorate their homes. (Many of the results have been featured in periodicals such as Architectural Digest and House & Garden.) Faulkner's work is in several public and private collections including the Smith College Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C.; Polk Museum of Art and Leepa-Rattner Museum of art, Florida; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; North Carolina Museum of Art, Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University Raleigh in North Carolina; Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania; Sammlung Ludwig, Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany and by renowned collectors such as Nelson Rockefeller, Baron Leon Lambert, Phillip Hanes and Abba Eban. Awards: North Carolina Arts Council, 1991 Collaboration Artist Award, American Institute of Architects, 1976 SECCA National Endowment Grant, 1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artists Grant, 1976 Urban Walls Project, National Endowment for the Arts Grant Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1974 Selected Solo Exhibitions: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1994 Associated American Artists, New York, New York, 1990 Associated American Artists, New York, New York, 1987 Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1987 Wake Forest Arts Association, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1987 Gibbs Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, 1986 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1983 Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1981 Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, 1979 East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1977 Selected Group Exhibitions: Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Florida, Paradise Found, 2017, Chicago International ArtFair, Chicago, Illinois, 1995 Associated American Artists, New York, New York, 1990 "New Concepts in Printmaking", Associated American Artists, New York, New York, 1985 "Andrew Wyeth, A Trojan Horse Modernist", Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina, 1984 "The Fabric of Ornamentation", Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1983 "Transpersonal Images", International Transpersonal Association Conference, Davos, Switzerland, 1983 "The Spirit of Orientalism", Nueberger Museum, Purchase, New York, 1982 "The Art of North Carolina", Squibb Center, Princeton, New Jersey and Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, 1981 "Abstract Art in the 80's", Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1981 "Patterns", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1979 "New York Now", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1979 "13 Galleries", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1979 "Southeastern Painters and Sculptors", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1977 "Biennial of Contemporary American Art", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, 1975 "James River Annual", Norfolk, Virginia, 1971. Biography courtesy of: http://www.frankfaulkner.com/ .

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