Description

A single screenprint, hand embossed with 7 coloured screen and 3 glazes, printed on 410gsm Somerset Tub Sized paper. Edition of 150. Signed & numbered. Sheet size: 122 x 98cm. Image size: 99.5 x 78cm. American Tan XXIV is a prime example of Hume’s work, and shows his fascination with the theme of the all-American cheerleader and her place in American culture. Stripping his subjects of all inessentials allows him to highlight their most compelling aspects and to create subtle displacements and deformities that wilfully disrupt the careful construction of his compositions. Typical of his spare approach to form, combined with beautiful, intense flat colour, this apparent simplicity is in fact the product of a complex, multi-part printing process also involving embossing.