Frank Stella's Imaginary Places

Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of ten circular prints from Frank Stella’s celebrated “Imaginary Places” series. The selected works on view are from 1996 - 1998 and are rendered in vivid - often fluorescent - colors. The labor-intensive, complex prints have creative titles relating to The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. Stella incorporates a variety of techniques in this series, including engraving, aquatint, relief, lithography, screenprint, etching, and computer design.

Frank Stella was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1936. Since his first solo gallery exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960, Stella has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and abroad. Stella’s work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined art in the postwar era and he is included in major international collections, including the Menil Collection, Houston; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Gallery of Art; the Toledo Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Portland Art Museum, Oregon; and The Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN. In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center.