Kirk Mangus, "Alice and Mouse"

Kirk Mangus

Alice and Mouse

7 color screenprint on Coventry Rag

Price range: $600 through $1,075

This 7 color screenprint features a stylized illustration from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The gestural strokes and sense of endearing immediacy are qualities for which Kirk Mangus became most known and admired.

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Year
2013
Edition of
50
Dimensions
32 x 22 3/4 inches
Authentication

Signed, numbered, and titled on the front by the artist. All Haystack editions come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

About the Artwork

This 7 color screenprint features a stylized illustration from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The gestural strokes and sense of endearing immediacy are qualities for which Kirk Mangus became most known and admired.

Alice and Mouse was printed in collaboration with the artist and Forth Estate at Axelle Editions (a renowned printmaking studio active from 2005 – 2015). Each print was created by silkscreen printing (also known as serigraphy). This method requires stenciling techniques wherein ink is pressed onto paper through deliberately exposed areas of a mesh screen one color at a time. 

Curator's Note

Ceramicist and painter Kirk Mangus had an undeniable trademark gestural style, whether transforming a clay pot or a blank piece of paper. In Alice and Mouse, Mangus depicted a scene from Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, where Alice and a mysterious mouse find themselves frantically swimming in a pool of Alice’s tears. For this particular portrayal of Alice, Mangus used his daughter Una’s likeness, who was born in the Chinese zodiac year of the Rat. With spontaneous strokes in black, the scene comes alive waves form around the beloved characters. 

About the Artist

Kirk Mangus (b.1952, Sharon, PA – d.2013, Kent, OH) was a vital Ohio artist whose career spanned disciplines of ceramics, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Drawn to traditions of storytelling and art’s abilities to connect us all, his work was simultaneously serious and witty, featuring characters both familiar and new.

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