Donald Sultan
SEVEN BLUES JAN 24 2024 DS, 2024
Color silkscreen with enamel inks, flocking, and tar-like texture on Rising 4-ply museum board
58 x 58 in
147.3 x 147.3 cm
Edition of 30
Available at VFA
After the exploration of painting the art of printmaking becomes the final chapter of the artist process. Our role is to facilitate this process organically, creating an environment for producing the most important prints and multiples of our time. It’s a privilege being part of today’s creative process and tomorrow’s history.
- Robert Lococo
An exhibit at the American University Museum in Washington, D.C. explores the process that Donald Sultan (b.1951) uses to transform his works from paintings to fine art prints.
The process requires collaboration between the artist and printmaker. Sultan has been working with Lococo Fine Art for more than twenty years, turning his large, multi-layered paintings into prints that vary in texture, color and scale.
Sultan’s paintings are on view, alongside the prints, to illustrate the many ways that artists, in collaboration with master printers, can create infinite variations of a single image. The works focus on the poppies, mimosas and lantern flowers that are a continuing theme of Sultan’s work.
From Painting to Print: The Poppies, Mimosas, and Lantern Flowers of Donald Sultan is currently on view at American University Museum the Katzen Arts Center and will run through December 7, 2025.
Other artists who have worked with Lococo Fine Art, and whose works are available at VFA are Derrick Adams, Donald Baechler, Katherine Bernhardt, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Deborah Kass, Carlos Rolon, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel and Andy Warhol.
Alex Katz (b.1927) has been working with Lococo Fine Art for many years. Like Donald Sultan, Katz has favorite themes that include the people and places close to home.
His most recurrent image is that of his wife, Ada, to whom he’s been married since 1958. Ada Katz was a biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center until the birth of their son, Vincent, in 1960. Ada has been not just Katz’s muse, but also helped manage his studio in the SoHo loft that they have lived in since 1968.
In a scene from the 1989 movie, Communion, based on the book of the same name by Whitley Strieber, actor Christopher Walken, who plays Strieber and actress Frances Sternhagen, who plays Strieber's wife, share a kiss in front of a portrait of Ada at the Whitney Museum. It’s a poignant moment…with Ada seemingly watching the couple...and sharing the moment.
Alex Katz currently has a solo exhibit at the Gladstone Gallery in New York and upcoming solo exhibits at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas and Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany.
Please contact us if you would like more information about the fine art prints, paintings and sculptures available at VFA.
References:
Mark Niesman. From Painting to Print. American University. September 6, 2025.
