LnS Gallery is honored to announce the procurement of a work by represented artist, Michael Loveland for the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY). The dreamlike monoprint, Buff Environmental I (2023), has been acquired by The Met through the generous gift of an anonymous patron.

Buff Environmental I, achieves its uniqueness through the artist’s intervention with the work in the drying process of the print. Among swirls and dashes of robin’s egg blue and black ink, a ghostly stripped-down transfer of a coastline makes its appearance. While the monoprint features a strong contemporary influence with bold shapes and abstract passages, Loveland’s knack for photography – rendered through a take on cyanotype – brings an illustrative variable and traditional sense to the work.