Zigmunds Priede
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Zigmunds Priede – Icarus, 2015
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Zigmunds Priede
Biography
Born: Latvia, 1935
Died: November 7, 2024
"Many of my works begin with some kind of printing process and develop through the use of collage, paint, and other materials. The presence of hand, automatism, and fortuitous happenings are all significant ingredients. The works are abstract with emphasis on form as foundation and meaning. They form relationships augmented with semiotic associations that need not have specific or exclusive meaning. Diverse viewer interpretations of these associations become an accumulation of meanings over time. Because these works evolve over a prolonged period of time that may extend, many years, I choose to call them ‘aggregate time’ works. They represent certain moments of a creative process that is forever ongoing, like the interpretive process."
Zigmunds Priede was a historically relevant printer, having worked for years at the esteemed publishing house ULAE, collaborating with the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, and many more. In his later years, Zig was primarily an engaging artist, feeling his way into his work with a mesmerizing sensitivity, quietly influencing the eyes and hands of those artists and students who were lucky and open enough to fall under Zig's tutelage.
Zigmunds "Zig" Priede died on November 7, 2024
Died: November 7, 2024
"Many of my works begin with some kind of printing process and develop through the use of collage, paint, and other materials. The presence of hand, automatism, and fortuitous happenings are all significant ingredients. The works are abstract with emphasis on form as foundation and meaning. They form relationships augmented with semiotic associations that need not have specific or exclusive meaning. Diverse viewer interpretations of these associations become an accumulation of meanings over time. Because these works evolve over a prolonged period of time that may extend, many years, I choose to call them ‘aggregate time’ works. They represent certain moments of a creative process that is forever ongoing, like the interpretive process."
Zigmunds Priede was a historically relevant printer, having worked for years at the esteemed publishing house ULAE, collaborating with the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, and many more. In his later years, Zig was primarily an engaging artist, feeling his way into his work with a mesmerizing sensitivity, quietly influencing the eyes and hands of those artists and students who were lucky and open enough to fall under Zig's tutelage.
Zigmunds "Zig" Priede died on November 7, 2024
Artist Statement
Stone on Stone and Paper on Paper
“Having worked in lithography, through teaching and printing, I had a curiosity; what does a stone and paper really look like inside? I had an opportunity while at the University of Minnesota, through contact with a scientist who had access, to an electron microscope. I had a dozen negatives made and discovered another reality. So after many years of working, with Mike I had a chance to move it forward a step further. Therefore the titles, Stone on Stone and Paper on Paper, allowed me to explore subtlety of color.”
– Zigmunds Priede –
“Having worked in lithography, through teaching and printing, I had a curiosity; what does a stone and paper really look like inside? I had an opportunity while at the University of Minnesota, through contact with a scientist who had access, to an electron microscope. I had a dozen negatives made and discovered another reality. So after many years of working, with Mike I had a chance to move it forward a step further. Therefore the titles, Stone on Stone and Paper on Paper, allowed me to explore subtlety of color.”
– Zigmunds Priede –