Allan Edmunds
EFA II
Offset Lithograph
22 1/2 x 30 inches
Edition of 40
Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.
From the Artist
My art usually incorporatesphotographs, primarily from family albums, historical archives, and mediaarranged as a montage with scale, marks, colors, and spatial arrangements that evoke a sense of movementand time. Subjects reference thefamily/ ancestry, African American history, and injustice as a global concern of my art/documentation projects.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
Allan L. Edmunds' fascination with photographic images is evident in his prints from The Family Album Series. EFA II, 1987, is a color-offset lithograph that exemplifies his image-making style. It combines photography and computer-generated imagery, text, and painterly strokes of complementary colors. It illustrates Edmunds' narrative style and use of various mark-making techniques. The scanner digitized his family photos, which were then printed on a dot-matrix printer. The images were further developed and manipulated on a transparent base using computer drawing and the addition of high-contrast film and a Xerox. In this way, the artist has complete control over the color, position, scale, and texture.
— Adapted from "Fresh, Human and Personal: Signature of Brandywine Workshop," Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection (Manchester, VT: Hudson Hills Press, 2004)
