Sunday, October 19th at 2:00 p.m. held at the Phoenix Rising studio, 938 Parsons Ave, downtown Columbus.
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Rex et Lex, woodcut
Sidney Chafetz is a Columbus treasure. A professor emeritus of Ohio State University, Mr Chafetz is so beloved by past students that they formed a printmaking alumni association in his honor called the "Residivists". Other notable achievements include numerous national and international awards and fellowships as well as foundation and university research grants. In 1991 he received the Ohio Arts Council’s Governor’s Award.
(photo left) Amherst Maid I, litho. (right) Dr Prinzhorn's Patriotic Pair, litho.
Sidney Chafetz, professor emeritus of art at The Ohio State University, received his professional training at the Rhode Island School of Design, L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, Fontainbleu, the Academie Julian, Paris, and with artists Fernand Leger and Stanley W. Hayter. He is been regularly represented in major print exhibitions since 1947.
His notable achievements include numerous national and international awards and fellowships as well as foundation and university research grants. In 1991 he received the Ohio Arts Council’s Governor’s Award.
A comprehensive 40-year retrospective of Mr. Chafetz’s work was organized by Ohio State in 1988, an event marked by the publication of Chafetz Graphics: Satire and Homage the first joint project of the University Galleries and the Ohio State University Press.
In 1992, Mr. Chafetz completed work on Perpetrators,a series of lithographic portraits of the individuals who carried out the policies of the German Third Reich, plus related installations. The exhibition toured scores of university and nonprofit galleries and traveled to three European cities. The series is now on permanent display at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. It is also regularly exhibited under the auspices of the Tennessee Center for Holocaust Studies. Several portraits from the series are at the University of Minnesota’s center for genocide studies.l
In the fall of 2005, the Columbus Museum of Art presented an exhibition of Chafetz prints covering the major areas of his interest: politics, cultural heroes and the academy.
