Bill Killebrew "Dessert" Lithograph

Name: Bill Killebrew "Dessert" Lithograph
SKU: 632835642834572

SKU: 632835642834572

$1,200.00

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This print was co-published with the artist and Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, NC. The prints are available for sale at the galleries website.

This collaboration with Bill began with a phone call when Perry reached out of the blue and asked if he had any interest in making lithographs together. To Perry's happy surprise, he was intriqued and agreed to come out and work for a week. One week turned into proofs going back and forth in the mail, and another week to create new layers and finalize the approvals for editioning.

Perry says, "I have long admired Bills paintings that I first saw at Blue Spiral 1 years ago. When I got back to town a couple years ago I made a list of artists that I particularly wanted to work with, and Bill was at the top of the list. His painting style speaks to me and my days as a painter admiring the likes of Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Fairfield Porter (and later found our shared love of Neo Rausch!) We talked a lot about these painters and their use of "chroma", and an abstract expressionist manner of painting figurative subjects, in this case drawn directly from the artists life.

This is a 5-color lithograph printed from one stone and 3 aluminum plates, including a blended inking layer. It's 18x24 inches and printed on Somerset soft white satin paper.
"A family member who shall remain nameless once misinterpreted a song lyric to read 'I am a Southerner of nothing in particular.' (The actual reading is 'I am the son and heir…')

When informed of his mistake he was insistent that his version was the better of the two. I agree, being Southern born but having lived nearly everywhere as a child. I find that the quality defined as Southern has become metaphorical and I am left with my upbringing by well-meaning family and an abstract sense of belonging to a place and time that no longer seems to exist.

Each of my pictures is a representation of this concept, time and place as a metaphor. All my painting is abstract. I was raised by an Expressionist and even while becoming a painter of things, I have gravitated toward an aesthetic allowing for the introduction of the picture as a natural object in its own right, rather than a description of nature. Any significance achieved in the course of painting the picture is a significance drawn from memory, from upbringing and shaping by others, from a place and set of manners and morality drawn from these sources and worked out in a non-objective methodology allowing these factors to come out. Like abstract thinking, perhaps in a daze. A pattern slowly rises to the surface and makes itself apparent; the thing left in and thought to be unimportant becomes the passage that anchor the entire piece. The color quality worked out with difficulty becomes the light quality suddenly remembered."

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