Richard Serra American, b. 1938
Extension #2, 2004
1-color etching on White satin finish 850 gram paper
47 x 35 in.
119.4 x 88.9 cm.
119.4 x 88.9 cm.
Edition of 58
Series: Extension
Signed, dated, and numbered bottom right
Further images
Beginning in December 1993, Serra began utilizing an etching technique that printmakers traditionally consider a mistake: corroding the copper plate’s wax “ground” with lengthy acid baths in ferric chloride that...
Beginning in December 1993, Serra began utilizing an etching technique that printmakers traditionally consider a mistake: corroding the copper plate’s wax “ground” with lengthy acid baths in ferric chloride that dissolved, or “bit,” through the exposed metal. Over the subsequent decades, Serra continued to etch deeper than he had before, silk-screening silhouette forms before running paint sticks along the surface to create oil markings. Despite exclusively working with black throughout his printmaking career—by melting oil sticks with crystallized silica rock—Serra achieved ever-complex lithic textures.
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