Kirk Mangus, "Alice and Cat"

Kirk Mangus

Alice and Cat

10 color screenprint on Coventry Rag

Price range: $600 through $1,065

This 10 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
33 x 21 7/8 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 10 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 Cat 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 a mark-making language all his own, whether transforming a clay pot or a blank piece of paper. His strong, at times crude lines vibrate and fizzle with movement and energy.

In Alice and Cat, Mangus was inspired by Lewis Carroll’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Here, Alice looks up at the Cheshire cat skeptically as they meet for the first time, with an eyebrow raised and her pursed lips pinched on one side. The cat himself is an enormous presence, grinning famously while paying Alice’s growing frustration no mind.  

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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