id: 338356 accession number: 2019.73.2 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.73.2 updated: 2023-08-24 01:33:21.438000 10: The Artist as Catalyst: Red River #10, 1992. Andres Serrano (American, 1950-). Screenprint; image: 35.8 x 24 cm (14 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. to commemorate The Print Club of Cleveland's centennial, 2019 2019.73.2 © Andres Serrano title: Red River #10 title in original language: series: 10: The Artist as Catalyst series in original language: creation date: 1992 creation date earliest: 1992 creation date latest: 1992 current location: creditline: Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. to commemorate The Print Club of Cleveland's centennial, 2019 copyright: © Andres Serrano --- culture: America, 20th century technique: screenprint department: Prints collection: PR - Screenprint type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Andres Serrano (American, 1950-) - artist Andres Serrano American, 1950- Andres Serrano, who believes that "there is no such thing as the sacred without the profane," draws from an iconography informed by the rituals and ideologies of his Catholic upbringing. His images often incorporate sacrosanct icons along with psychologically and morally charged substances such as blood, sperm, urine, and milk. The technically accomplished color photographs embalm the subjects in an aura of artifice, addressing the tension in late 20th-century America between spirituality and commercialism. Serrano (born in New York City) attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1967–69) and worked in an advertising firm before deciding in the early 1980s to enter full-time New York's politically charged art scene. Later in the decade, working under the auspices of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Serrano gained international attention as the target of attacks from politicians and religious leaders who took offense to his photograph Piss Christ (1987), which depicts a crucifix submerged in a jar of urine. The debate over the image's "blasphemous" nature epitomized the virulent relationship between conservatives and politically active artists during a period fraught with contentions that continue to the present day regarding definitions of art and pornography and the dispensation of federal arts funding. Serrano continues to examine charged subject matter. His series include KKK Portraits (1991), Morgue (1992), and Objects of Desire (1994-95). In addition to his controversial nea fellowship, Serrano has garnered awards from the National Studio Program at P.S. 1 (1985), the New York Foundation for the Arts (1987), the Cintas Foundation (1989), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1989). In 1995 the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, organized Andres Serrano: Works 1983-1993, a mid-career traveling survey. Serrano lives in Brooklyn. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 35.8 x 24 cm (14 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Jack and Linda Lissauer, Shaker Heights, OH date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 4, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Many of the artists who contributed to the portfolio 10: Artist as Catalyst exhibited at the Alternative Museum. digital description: This print belongs to a portfolio published to support the Alternative Museum, an experimental New York exhibition venue from 1975 through 2000. The space aimed to address inequity in the art world by hosting progressive exhibitions of contemporary art. The year this work was made, public funds were cut, leading artists to rally support by collaborating on a series of original screenprints. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES