I spent this winter furiously making new work and getting a few proposals/exhibition entries together. I'm now an official member of The Print Center, The Friends of the Prints & Pictures Dept at the Free Library, and Philadelphia Sculptors as a by-product!
No solo show at the Print & Pictures Dept, sadly, but here is some new work I submitted to them. These mermaids, called
Synchronized Swimming, is a chine colle of sorts, where the individual mermaids are etchings printed from one plate, then cut out and adhered to another piece of Rives paper, and run through the press to secure everything.
Match Made in Heaven (17), is a collection of seventeen variable constructed matchboxes, all built from cut etchings. The boxes are built from the state proofs of several different large plates, and the sleeve is from a plate meant to be folded into the sleeve, based off of a German matchbox sleeve found on a sidewalk here in Philly. The colored parts of the matchbox sleeves are also chine colle, and an etching printed on Japanese paper so when run through the press, the line between the two layers is almost invisible. Chine colle rocks!
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| Synchronized Swimming, 2012, cut etchings on Rives BFK |
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| Match Made in Heaven (17), 2012, collection of seventeen matchboxes of etched images |
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