Going Out
Signed Print

Appearing like a sweeping seascape filled with great swells of colour, Going Out sees Hockney combining lithography and screen printing to create a hybrid print that has as much texture and impact as his most impressive canvases. Made in collaboration with the prestigious Gemini Print Workshop in LA, the work forms part of the Some New Prints series which saw Hockney truly pushing the limits of the medium. Published over 30 years after his first experiments with etching and vastly different in style, Going Out is testament to the artist’s ability to constantly bring new elements and techniques into his oeuvre, which has made him so beloved to so many today. While he is primarily known for his more traditional portraits or scenes of Californian life, this series and that which follows it, Some More New prints, shows the artist’s abstract side coming to the fore, as well as his interest in Cubism which sparked his interest in showing multiple perspectives in a single image. This was explored previously in the artist’s photo collage series where he attempted to diffuse and refract the single perspective of the camera lens in order to show how his eye ‘feels space’ and here we see the original concept translated into a visually captivating print.