We use cookies to improve and understand visitor’s experiences. By continuing to use this website, you consent to Sam Fox School’s usage of cookies.

Sam Fox School
Pink Submerge
Mound Plate
Make Black

Shaun O'Dell

Make Black

Make Black is the key print in a series of six editions created with Shaun O'Dell during his residency at Island Press in the fall of 2013. With the exception of Make Black which was conceived of just prior to his visit, all prints in the series were developed in collaboration with Sam Fox School students on a field trip to local St. Louis sites rich in American historical significance including Cahokia Mounds, the Gateway Arch, and the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

Ultra Submerge
TR
Pink Submerge
Mound Plate
Make Black
Limestone Rub
Ultra Submerge, Photolithography, monoprint, 30" x 22", 2014.
TR, Photolithography, monoprint, 30 1/8" x 21 3/4", 2014.
Pink Submerge, Collagraph, monoprint, 30 1/8" x 21 3/4", 2014.
Mound Plate, Etching, 30.125" x 21.75", 2014.
Make Black, Aquatint etching, 30.125" x 21.75", 2014.
Limestone Rub, Reflief, 30.125" x 21.75", 2014.

About the artist

Shaun O'Dell makes drawings, paintings, videos, music, and sculpture. His works investigate the history of America’s dissociation from nature and the myth of American exceptionalism through violence.

Shaun outdoors hunched over on the ground examining a large square rectangular piece of black plastic
A group of people outdoors on a field in the evening with rectangular silver sheets arranged on the ground
Shaun hunches over a painting on the grass with a paintbrush in hand
Shaun on his knees painting brown lines on a rectangular canvas which is held upright by someone else
Various rectangular paintings with black and grey painted lines on them laid out on the roadside by a field
Shaun and two others hunched over examining a large piece of white paper pressed against a large rock
Shaun and two others seen from a distance standing beside a large piece of white paper pressed against a large rock
Two people standing precariously on a rock over a body of water holding a piece of string between them
A figure sitting by a bank pressing a large white rectangular sheet over a body of water
Shaun placing a large sheet of paper flat by the side of a building while rubbing a bunched up cloth over it
Shaun placing a large sheet of paper flat by the side of a building while rubbing a bunched up cloth over it
Shaun and another person holding up a large sheet of paper flat by the side of a building while rubbing a bunched up cloth over it
Over the shoulder view of Shaun rubbing charcoal over a large white sheet, embossing the texture of the wall behind it
A person places a large sheet of paper with blue strips of paper arranged horizontally through it like stripes
Four figures are seen in this image. Two people looks on while a blue print is being made with one person holding a large roller and the second person assisting them
Shaun holds up a ruler against a large print on the table
Shaun O'Dell PROOF publication brochure with essay by Gretchen Wagner

Editions from this project

Image of large white scratchings on a dark background
Overlapping and alternating rectangles of yellow, red, blue, cyan, and light translucent brown placed vertically and horizontally on the left side of the composition
Abstract composition of yellow, open form with thin blue lines in front on a pale pink background with short, black marks along the left and right border
Image of large brush mark mostly hidden by a black rectangle with a pink background at the top of the image
Scratchy image of the letters "TR" in white with a scratch navy background
Image of ultramarine blue rectangle submerged in a dark grey/black rectangle