DONALD SULTAN

Collaborating with STPI founder, master printer and foremost 20th century American print publisher, Kenneth E. Tyler, Donald Sultan continued the exploration of his Flowers and Oranges on a Branch paintings in the print medium. Together, Tyler and Sultan sought to combine the individual techniques and methods both are famous for, and merge them into what would ultimately become a portfolio of fifteen limited print editions.

Contrasting his notoriously large, ‘industrial’ assemblage paintings, Sultan’s collaboration with STPI delivered a portfolio of prints which display a sensitivity defined by the materials and techniques used: shaped handmade paper layered with coloured paper pulp and delicate overlays of litho ink; jigsaw-cut woodblocks create embossed relief areas, fitting together like pieces of a puzzle; elegant flocked ‘drippings’ are paired with etched flat oranges, creating a monochromatic harmony of positive and negative spaces.

Courtesy STPI