If you spend a lot of time on pop culture websites, you've seen a million different pieces of Star Wars art. You have seen all the real posters, fan posters, artistic interpretations, and parodies. There is Star Wars art everywhere. With this new piece, Daniel Danger has come up with something different, and io9 has your exclusive debut. The Bottleneck Gallery has collaborated with Danger to release a piece called " Will he finish what he begins?" which is a 14 color screenprint. In our exclusive video, you can see the shadowboxes provided to io9 by Danger and Bottleneck Gallery. This is not the usual poster or print that is released, and it is a real highlight of the Star Wars poster art. A piece like this is only possible if you have been making screenprints for at least 20 years. He has figured out what kind of art he likes to make, and how to take a franchise as saturated as Star Wars and do something new with it by pushing the medium. Danger told io9 over email that his style is very much about the open space, environment, location and trying to be as immersive as possible. I'm not good at that. I felt like I could make these small style releases in the vein of the concept art books I poured over as a kid, fully screenprinted and handcrafted.
If you click over to the Bottleneck Gallery site, io9 will debut this piece for you. There are three shadowbox editions, all of which are 12 x 18 inch, 18 color screenprints, covering the background art and three laser-cut layers. Each will be framed in a shadowbox with optional upgrades for those who want more protection. The green and lavender editions are limited to 125 and 175 pieces, respectively, while the blue edition will be available until January 30. They won't go out of stock, and Bottleneck will produce as many as they sell. The green is $375, lavender $350 and timed $300. There are more process shots on Danger's site about creating the shadowbox, as well as a behind the scenes video.
If the shadowbox is too much for you, you can also get Danger's art as a standard 12 x 18 inch, 14 color screenprint for $65.
Where did this idea come from? Considering the way of the world, covid-19 played a role.
When covid shut down so many means of production and printing for artists, I started thinking about what machinery I could afford to bring into my studio to have some ability to do short-run things in-house.
I did a few personal work shadowbox pieces for a show in Chicago, and absolutely loved the result, and had a lot of idea about how to improve it. I took the sketch and reconstructed it for the shadowbox format.
One of these lovely pieces can be found at Bottleneck.
The prices for the art went on sale after we wrote the article. This has been updated.
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