Dasha Shishkin
Traditional print techniques are an essential part of Dasha Shishkin’s art practice which encompasses painting, drawing and mural work. Invited to the Neiman Center in 2006, Shishkin produced Hideous Potato, missed terribly, with likes and no hate, an ambitious suite of nine irregularly-shaped, offset lithographs that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle to form a single image. The central figure - both comic and grotesque - is a corpulent cherub with sphincters for eyes and a mouth who seems to spew bodily fluids at a retreating cavalry below. Such absurd scenes and fantastical characters abound in Shishkin’s dreamlike narratives. A masterful draftsman, she employed her confident line to create a suite of etchings, I Wanna Be Well, printed in cherry red with intricate laser cut borders in 2007.
Dasha Shishkin (b. 1977, Moscow, Russia) moved with her parents to New York where she went to Parsons School of Design and later to the Rietveld Academy of Arts in Amsterdam. She received a MFA from Columbia University in 2006. She has participated in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, P.S. 1, New York; the Kunsthalle Hamburg, and Grimm/Rosenfeld Gallery in Munich and New York. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. She currently lives and works in New York.
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Hideous Potato, missed terribly, with likes and no hate, 2006
Print in nine pieces
Offset lithography and hand-coloring with colophon and handmade folder
Sheet and image: Variable dimensions
Paper: Superfine
Edition: 27
$5,000 for the set
I Wanna Be Well I: (i think we could do without girls), 2007
Etching with laser engraved borders
Sheet: 22 x 26 inches
Image: 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches,
Paper: India Dew Drop
Edition: 15
$1,500
I Wanna Be Well II: (dreams are solid & tangible), 2007
Etching with laser engraved borders
Sheet: 22 x 26 inches
Image: 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches,
Paper: India Dew Drop
Edition: 15
$1,500
I Wanna Be Well III: (keep the sick on the left), 2007
Etching with laser engraved borders
Sheet: 22 x 26 inches
Image: 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches,
Paper: India Dew Drop
Edition: 15
$1,500
I Wanna Be Well IV: (where are your glasses people?), 2007
Etching with laser engraved borders
Sheet: 22 x 26 inches
Image: 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches,
Paper: India Dew Drop
Edition: 15
$1,500
I Wanna Be Well VI: (united is cheaper in the long run, yes but who lives that long?), 2007
Etching with laser engraved borders
Sheet: 22 x 26 inches
Image: 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches,
Paper: India Dew Drop
Edition: 15
$1,500
I Wanna Be Well V: (we must acquaint ourselves with vice), 2007
Etching with laser engraved borders
Sheet: 22 x 26 inches
Image: 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches
Paper: India Dew Drop
Edition: 15
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I Wanna Be Well VII: (deep red), 2007
Etching with laser engraved borders
Sheet: 22 x 26 inches
Image: 15 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches,
Paper: India Dew Drop
Edition: 15
Sold out