Archie Rand

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Brodsky Center at PAFA_Archie Rand_Celebrating the Turnaround 2005 (1).jpg

Archie Rand

$500.00

Celebrating the Turnarond, 2005

Digital print in archival pigment ink on paper

25 x 31 1½ inches

Edition of 10. Published by the Brodsky Center at PAFA, Philadelphia. Copyright of the

Artist and the Brodsky Center.

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Archie Rand (born 1949) is an American painter and muralist from Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Art Students League of New York before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinegraphics from Pratt Institute. His first exhibition was held in 1966, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, when he was seventeen years old.

His earliest major works were "The Letter Paintings" (also known as "The Jazz Paintings"), a series of technically inventive, mural-sized canvases made between 1968 and 1971. Over the following decades he developed concurrent reputations as a gallery and museum artist and as an authority on Jewish iconography, frequently engaging text, religious subject matter, and comic book imagery in his work. In 1980 and 1981 he was commissioned to create stained glass windows for two Chicago synagogues, Anshe Emet Synagogue and Temple Sholom. He has collaborated extensively with poets, including Robert Creeley and John Ashbery, among others.

Among his large-scale serial projects is The 613 (2015), a sequence of 613 acrylic paintings corresponding to the 613 commandments of Jewish religious law, published by Blue Rider Press/Penguin Random House and exhibited at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, among other venues. He has had over 100 solo exhibitions, and his work is held in collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Rand was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1999 and received the Achievement Medal for Contributions in the Visual Arts from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. He served as chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Columbia University before becoming Presidential Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he was also granted the Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement in 2016.