Creation

 

Edward Armen Stasack

  1929 - 2023 (biography)

c. 1957  

masonite intaglio / collagraph 

17 1/2 x 11 1/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

trial proof; edition about 3 

pencil titled, lower left; dedication, lower center: “To Elizabeth” (Elizabeth Ginno Winkler) 

 

ivory textured wove 

proof 

artist 

JW216 

$750.00 

Three dimensional forms emerge like organic structures from the dark in Edward Armen Stasack’s collagraph “Creation”. A noted “rock art” - or petroglyph - enthusiast, Stack no doubt found inspiration in the works of ancient civilizations rendered in geological formations throughout the world. It is likely rooted in his interest in creationism as a visual subject: where things began, and who created them.

Stasack was a member of the American Rock Art Research Association, the Hawaii Rock Art Association, of which he served as emeritus president, and of the Australian Rock Art Association. He was also a member of the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Arizona, whose principal aim was to preserve historic and ancient artifacts of the Southwest.