Unique pieces and experiments by A Grinberg
One of a Kind
Family Lines
Portraits of my family scanned by a video camera attached to a Macintosh Plus. Processed in an early version of Photoshop to isolate edges of tones. Screen printed in off white on a hand painted background.
Family Squared
Approx a 20 color print of a computer generated outlne of the portraits of our family. Overprinted with a grid to make the relationships less complex and confusing.
Transamerica Banner, 1974
Screenprint (2 colors) from a high contrast photograph looking up at the window casements of the Transamerica Pyramind building in San Francisco. Airbrushed margins.
Golden Gate Bridge Banner, 1975
4 images of the Golden Gate Bridge from a photograph on Kodalith Film.
Airbrushed background.
Wrinkles
1976, Discovering the nature of wrinkled fabric through the use of an Airgun.
AB 205, 1978
AB 175, 1978
Airbrush Series, textile pigment sprayed over found objects, screen printed gray border,
OD 36" x 43", 100% Cotton, Alan Grinberg
#203
1978, Airbrushed on cotton using a Devilbiss Touchup gun, which is a cross between an artist's airbrush and a full size paint sprayer. The masks were thin wooden sticks from old window shades.
Two Dragons
Image from a Chinese Papercut
5 Color Print
Screen printed split-fount background
Prairie Fire Dragon
Image from The Weather Undergrround book, Prairie Fire - The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism: The Political Statement of the Weather Underground.
2 Color print with airbrushed background.
Round Dragon
Image from a Chinese Papercut
6 color screenprint
Weft Triangles
1983, Screenprint on Silk
Banner, 40" x 56"
Modesto Variation
1982, Experiment, Not produced
Reef
c 1983, 44" x 60"
Textile pigment on Cotton
1. Wrinkle the fabric (medium weight cotton)
2. Use blank screen, print dark gray ink on the bunched fabric
3. Let it dry, open and iron flat
4. Handcut masks to place over the black images
5. Print the 3 color design "Sonoma"
6. Remove masks.
Teaching a Textile Workshop at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, July 1993
Repeat Textile Design for Hand Screen Printing fabric by the roll.
Handmade Rubylith and painted positives, The Lunar Sea Tablets
Self Portrait of a Textile Artist, c 1980
