Mel Bochner
b 1940, Pittsburgh, PA
Mel Bochner is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He is credited with the introduction of the use of language in the visual. Bochner came of age during the second half of the 1960s, a moment of radical change both in society at large as well as in art. While painting slowly lost its preeminent position in modern art, language moved from talking about art to becoming part of art itself.
Mel Bochner
Blah Blah Blah (Blue) (2014)
Etching with Aquatint, 26/30
11” x 8.5”