Endi Poskovic Presented by Open Studio

Endi Poskovic

Excerpt from artist statement

Poskovic employs the classic mokuhanga of ukiyo-e artists, while making
visual reference to such disparate influences as early 20th-century devotional pictures, primitive strategies of early cinema, and hard-edged Eastern European propaganda posters. Merging visual representation with text, Poskovic shifts the reading of the print by providing an unexpected new
context, forcing the viewer to continually reinterpret. Reminiscent of youthful whimsy and playful fantasy, hybridized narratives of toy-like objects and fantastic landscapes in Poskovic’s work imply stories from personal and social histories, referencing themes of displacement, shifting cultural identities, environmental transformation, migration, and alienation—all of which are presented in images that are as dystopian as they are magnificent.

Untitled (Iceberg)

16 x 21 Inches (paper size)

Lithograph

$400 (Unframed)

Untitled (Toy-mobile checkered house)

30 x 22.25 Inches (paper size)

Drypoint

$600 (Unframed)

All Quiet on the Western Front

39 x 72 Inches (paper size)

Woodblock

$3400 (Unframed)

Well-Known Folly with Cloud of Smoke (Que Guerrero)

22.5 x 30 Inches (paper size)

Woodblock

$650 (Unframed)

Six Mounds in Red and Yellow

22.5 x 30 Inches (paper size)

Woodblock

$750 (Unframed)

Three Craters (Inséparable)

21 x 27 Inches (paper size)

Woodcut

$600 (Unframed)

The Night Watch in Green and Orange (l'éléphant)

22.5 x 30 Inches (paper size)

Woodcut

$650 (Unframed)

In the Western Land (Irréversible)

22.5 x 30 Inches (paper size)

Woodblock

$650 (Unframed)

Marry Folly at Mt. Blanca and Some Other Stories (Exhibition at Open Studio 2009)

Lithography and woodcut

Marry Folly at Mt. Blanca and Some Other Stories (Exhibition at Open Studio 2009)

Lithography and woodcut

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Education
•Sarajevo School of Music (Primary Music Diploma 1982-86)
•Sarajevo School of Applied Arts (Diploma in Fine Arts 1983-86),
•The University of Sarajevo-Academy of Fine Arts (B.F.A. 1986-90)
•State University of New York at Buffalo (M.F.A. 1991-93).

Grants, Awards
•John. D Rockefeller-Bellagio
•Pollock-Krasner Foundation
•Camargo Foundation (France)
•Durfee Foundation
•MacDowell Colony
•Art Matters Foundation
•Kala Art Institute
•McColl Center for Visual Arts
•Valparaiso Foundation (Spain)
•Can Serrat International Art Centre(Spain)
•Virginia Center for Creative Arts
•Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
•Flemish Ministry of Culture -Frans Masereel Center (Belgium)
•Norwegian Government
•New York State Arts Council
•Indiana Arts Commission
•Open Studio

In 2006,Poskovic was nominated for the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship.

Selected Collections
•Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago
•Royal Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium
•Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Cairo, Egypt
•Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University
•New Orleans Museum of Art
•Orange County Museum of Art, California
•Kennedy Museum of American Art
•University of Iowa Museum of Art
•UMMA
•Des Moines Art Center;
•Seattle Arts Commission
•Tampa Museum of Fine Arts
•Vaasa Ostrobothnian Museum, Finland
•Musée d'Art Contemporain Fernet Branca-Saint-Louis, France

And over one hundred other museum and public collections in the US and abroad.

Selected Exhibitions
•Taichung International Print Biennial Taiwan
•Krakow International Print Triennial Poland
•La Biennale Internationale d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières Canada
•Egyptian International Print Triennial
•Deutsche Internationale Grafik-Triennale Frechen (Germany)
•Tallinn International Triennial (Estonia)
•Xylon International Triennale(France)
•Varna Biennale (Bulgaria) and the Ljubljana International Biennale of Graphic Arts(Slovenia)

Comprehensive surveys of Poskovic’s prints:

•Philadelphia Print Center (2001)
•Plains Art Museum (2001)
•Des Moines Art Center (2006)
•Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2007)
•Interlochen Arts Academy Dow Center for the Arts (2008)
•Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium (2008)
•Stad Leuven Academie en Conservatorium (2008)
•Atelier Vrije Grafiek, Academie voor Beeldende Kunst, Ghent (2008)

Poskovic has exhibited in over 350 individual and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and has represented the USA in virtually all major international print biennales and triennials.