ROBERT KUSHNER Night Blooming Cereus VI, 2006 Color intaglio (sugar lift aquatint) on antique Japanese silk 24 x 24 inches Price: $2,750 Courtesy of HuiPress, Maui, Hawaiii

Robert Kushner was born in 1949 in Pasadena, California, and earned a BA in Visual Arts from the University of California at San Diego. He moved to New York City in 1972, and was a founder of the anti-minimalist Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s. His early work, painted on unstretched cloth, blended a variety of western and non-western design motifs. In the early 1980s, he turned away from strict repeating patterns and began working from live models and floral subjects while maintaining a decorative sensibility.

Night Blooming Cereus, also printed at HuiPress, is one of a series of thirty-five unique prints in which the key plate is printed on different swatches of antique kimono silk. Here the key plate, a line drawing of the lush but ghostly cereus blossom, is juxtaposed with the geometric patterns of the woven silk, and heightened selectively with gold.