End of January / Trump
- Date:
- 2017
- Medium:
- Reduction woodblock print
- Dimensions:
- 61 × 45.7 cm
- Image courtesy of
- Artist website — Tongji Philip Qian printmaking catalogue
Dated to the period of the January 2017 U.S. presidential inauguration, this reduction woodblock print situates itself within Qian's politically responsive practice. The 'Winter' tag and the January timing fix a meteorological and historical anchor for what otherwise reads as topical abstraction rather than literal portraiture. Reduction printing, with its single-block, destructive sequence, parallels the irreversibility of political transition: each carved state forecloses the prior one and cannot be retrieved. Compositionally, the print likely deploys an austere palette and a coded geometric vocabulary in keeping with Qian's broader idiom—structural fields rather than illustrated subjects. The work is among the artist's date-titled prints that treat specific moments as material for formal record-keeping, locating civic experience within the procedural discipline of relief printmaking and binding a private studio process to a public timeline.
End of January / Trump was created by Tongji Philip Qian in 2017.
End of January / Trump depicts winter.
End of January / Trump measures 61 × 45.7 cm.
