13TH STREET IS A JUNGLE . . . Painting

This works incorporates printmaking (etching) with painting (gouache.watercolor on paper cut and mounted on acid free blotter paper. This is a one-of-a-kind work, but the etching editions are pictured in the detail frames to the side. The frame size for this work measures 16 inches by 20 inches. THE ORIGINAL ETCHING: DiFalco employed three etching plates to create this triptych-design; all plates were positioned on the printing press bed in a vertical format. This etching has 4 EDITIONS, and each edition is limited to an intimate number of four original etchings. In addition, the editions were all printed by hand with a different combination of ink and paper colors. Depicted within this urban landscape, circa 1979 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The balance of geometric vertical form propels the viewer directly into the work. DiFalco employed the studio techniques of intaglio and aquatint. All plates were etched in three separate baths of Nitric acid. Each individual plate size was about six inches wide by four inches high, which makes the image size about 12.5 inches high by 6 inches wide.The etching paper was hand torn to a size of about 18 inches high by 11 inches wide. All editions are hand printed and published by the artist at The Center for Works on Paperlocated at 705 Christian Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania within Fleisher Art’s Open Studio In Printmaking. Fleisher is associated with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. DiFalco used a large, floor-model industrial printing press, manufactured in New York City by the Charles Brand Company. This narrative of this captivating work on paper was based on five original drawings, all executed in 2020 by the artist. DiFalco used one of his original black and white photographs as a mockup for these drawings. This photo was initially shot and developed for his first solo exhibition of urban-centric photographs, entitled CRAMPED PHOTOS BY JERRY DI FALCO, hosted by Giovannis Room Bookstore in 1979. This specific scene depicts the Philadelphia intersection of 13th and Locust Streets, one of Philadelphia’s notorious cross walks in the midst of the Red Light District. The work highlights some of the off color bars within this neighborhood, including The Bag of Nails.It was in this nightclub that Miss Honeysuckle Divine crossed performance art with striptease in her risqué act.She shocked audiences by constructing a salami sandwich with her genitalia muscles before feeding it from the stage to audience members...from between her legs.The title is derived from a song called, “Thirteenth Street is a Jungle”, sung by the Philadelphia punk band, HEADCHEESE. The lyrics open with, "13th Street is a jungle, it’s a jungle...it’s a jungle...a jungle where I live.

Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12 W x 17 H x 0.1 D in

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