About the Work
The latest Lincoln Center Vera List Art Project commission, by celebrated American artist Donald Baechler, launches the Project's 50th Anniversary commemoration. Titled Lincoln Center Globe, 2011, the print is composed of 40 colors and screens and is quintessential Donald Baechler: in it a crowd of faces collected and archived over the years make their appearance, layered behind an iconic globe image, one of the artist's favorite themes for the past several years.
About the Artist
An avid collector of visual imagery, Donald Baechler files away representations of maps, toys, upheld thumbs, and playing cards to later source for his compositions. With stylistic references to modernist masters and Pop Art added to these doses of pop culture, Baechler is celebrated for his works that overflow with the joy and idealism of an adult who hasn't quite forgotten the innocence of childhood.
Baechler was first represented by Tony Shafrazi, a New York art dealer who became famous for discovering Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf in the 1980s. Considered to be one of the most influential artists to emerge from Shafrazi's stable, Baechler is the subject of numerous reviews, solo exhibitions, and critical essays, and has had his work collected by important figures in the art world, such as Eli Broad and Peter Brant.
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