Up for auction is a colorful "ORIGINAL" work of art from Urban Folk Art Master James Rizzi. It is entitled "Tell Me It's Raining". This is one of Rizzi's trademarked 3-D screenprint constructions. This would make a great gift for a fellow collector or would be an outstanding addition to your collection of fine art also.
"Tell Me It's Raining" is from 1997. It is a medium screen print with 3-D construction. The size is 4 x 2 frac 12; inches. It is signed and numbered from an edition of 350. It is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and is in pristine condition.
BIO: In his senior year of college, he began to experiment by combining painting, sculpture, and printmaking. It was then that he first began working with his 3-D construction process. He's an "urban primitive" artist. The subject matter of Rizzi's work is the celebration of his happy childhood in New York.
In 1974, shortly after graduation, Rizzi met an elderly gentleman at the Greenwich Village Art Fair. The man expressed great admiration for his work. The man, unknown to him at the time, turned out to be internationally known sculptor Chaim Gross, father-in-law of Red Grooms, an acknowledged master of the art-world.
James Rizzi's most notable influences are the French Dadaist painter Jean Dubuffet, Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee. Having been honored with solo shows in the United States, Europe and Asia, his work has received much recognition throughout the globe, for which he is extremely grateful. James Rizzi resides and works out of a bright SoHo loft in New York City.
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