Color reduction woodcut with screenprint on BFK Rives, 2014. 305x402 mm; 12x15⅞ inches, full margins. Trial proof, aside from the edition of 38. Signed, titled and inscribed "Trial Proof" in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published at the Master Print Project, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where Winfred Rembert was an artist-in-residence.
This print relates to the dye on carved and tooled leather painting, titled All of Me, featured in the artist's 2023 show at Hauser & Wirth.
Rembert's autobiographical print is filled with undulating figures dressed in prison uniforms, swinging their axes under what are imaginably the worst possible living conditions. The black-and-white stripes of the uniforms blend together and become an abstract composition. The twisted bodies and ghost-like facial expressions are ones the artist would have seen daily for seven years during his wrongful prison sentence in the 1960s, where he worked on a chain-gang.
