Safety Pin original lino-cut from ” Tightrope ” by George Nama 1974

Safety Pin  by American artist George Nama is from  ” Tightrope ” a suite of ten lino-cuts published by Monument Press 1974. We see a stark image of a large safety pin with a wire binding it’s movement which changes the viewers concept of what they think they are perceiving.  In this series of ten lino-cuts Nama takes ordinary household objects and makes them inoperable by wrapping wires around the workable part of the object and presenting one object at a time. There seems to be a sense of humor and at the same time profundity with each image. All copies are individually signed and numbered by the artist. This is copy number 5/50 and is touched by hand with watercolor on Arches cover stock paper and printed by Monument Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This print is in excellent condition with the first two letters of the title having been smudged by the artist when he hand wrote it in pencil on the lower left side of the print.

George Allen Nama was born in Homestead near Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania in 1939. In the 1960’s he was part of an international artistic circle in Paris while working at the Atelier 17 with William Stanley Hayter. In 1981 he was elected to the National Academy of Design, New York.  Over the years he has been represented in numerous important exhibitions, galleries, and public collections, such as The Morgan Library, the Boston Athenæum, TheMetropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Carnegie Institute. He was  included in the distinguished international art fairs at Maastricht and the Salon du Dessin, Paris.