Behind the Print | Clifford Singer – Newton’s Synod

The process is the result. Clifford Singer has been producing the since 1971. Singer began as a fine art photographer at the age of 16 after working with grandfather’s Leica Range Finder camera. He quickly became proficient with dark room procedures by processing his own film and producing black & white prints. By 1974, Singer was working with his geometric designs in the processes of Collagraphy, Silkscreen, Linoleum Cut, Photocopy Machines, and Photography Darkroom Printing. In 1978, he worked with Vincent Longo in developing his Etching Intaglio printing.

From 1980 to 1988, he had worked with Alexander Heinrici and John Nichols in producing his first silkscreen editions using Amberlith film and photo emulsion silkscreen process by hand squeegee at his studio producing several print portfolios which Singer sold to numerous corporate collections including, IBM, Mobil Oil, and AT&T. By 1982, Clifford Singer was listed in Printworld Directory and Original Print Collectors Group.

In 1991, Singer worked closely with Charles Cardinale in producing his Lincoln Center Editions which encompassed a Limited-Edition sculpture involving silkscreen process. During the 1990’s while being involved with publishing his artwork virtually, Singer met Bruce Levinthal and in 1998 produced his first Giclée Prints on canvas by using Levinthal’s wide format printer. This method of printing canvases proved useful for exhibition purposes and sales. The printed canvases were exhibited at U. of C., Berkeley, 1998, The Cooper Union, New York, NY in 2000, and University of Oxford, England, 2000, amongst many others until this present day. 

The results in some cases seem so simple that one is apt to forget the complex train of thought that lies behind them. Thus, the whole artistic enterprise of Singer’s work is in concert with a view to the coherent shaping of the human environment and forms an aggregate of creative inventions of geometry and the mathematical idea serves the interests of the viewer. The familiarity of mathematical approach may be understood as wide ranging method whose rules that are set by Clifford Singer himself.