Phaidon | Artspace | KAWS
Phaidon and Artspace are proud to present a new limited edition screenprint by world-renowned contemporary artist KAWS, released in tandem with the artist’s new Contemporary Artist Series book encapsulating the most comprehensive study on one of contemporary art's dominant influential forces.
TIDE, KAWS, 2023
Entitled TIDE, the limited edition of 100 silkscreen prints is based on a line drawing of the artist’s original and iconic painting TIDE and is sold together with a hardcover edition of the new CAS book. TIDE depicts one of the artist’s signature COMPANION subjects floating in the ocean illuminated by moonlight. The symphony of blues is vividly rendered through ten layers of silkscreen and ultraviolet ink. Like much of the artist’s work, the image is both playful and subversive, evoking wide-ranging emotions from joy and tranquility to alienation and loneliness.
KAWS’s far-reaching practice both critiques and embraces the challenges of a popular culture dominated by consumerism. With his paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, and product designs, KAWS is one of the most beloved contemporary multi-media artists, resonating with audiences far beyond museum and gallery spaces and connecting with viewers of all ages around the world. He has collaborated with prominent international brands including Uniqlo, Comme des Garçons, Supreme, Nike, Dior, sacai, and General Mills.
The definitive study of the work of KAWS
KAWS is one of the most popular and recognizable contemporary artists, whose reach extends far beyond the art world into the realms of fashion, music, and popular culture at large. Beginning his career as a graffiti artist in the 1990s, KAWS has expanded his repertoire into painting, sculpture, drawing, product design, and augmented reality, together forming an artistic vision that unites all of these practices.
The book includes images of the artist’s studio by Jason Schmidt and a selection of KAWS’s previously unpublished preparatory drawings as well as work spanning his entire career, from his early graffiti days to his highly collectible vinyl toys, complex abstract paintings, and monumental public sculptures. Richly illustrated and featuring the most significant scholarship on his work to date, this book is a definitive study of the life and career of this extraordinary artist.
About the Artist
KAWS is a New York-based artist and designer and one of the most popular living artists, known for his paintings, prints, sculptures, and limited-edition toys. His extensive list of projects in renowned institutions include solo exhibitions at Art Gallery of Ontario, The Serpentine Galleries, The Mori Arts Center Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, The National Gallery of Victoria, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art.
