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Photography, Cyanotype on Wood
Size: 28 W x 28 H x 1 D in
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*Featured in Saatchi Art’s “Indoor Botanicals” collection and “Shades of Blue” collection. These are listed for sale both individually as well as together in a set of FOUR here for a lesser amount. They were all made on the same day in April as part of a spring series. If hung side by side ina line they span 56 inches without any gaps, but at least 60 inches with spaces. That is 5 feet. Each of the round prints measures 14 inches in diameter. In my photo, the gaps between them are about 2 inches. One could also hang them vertically in a narrow space between windows, or diagonally ascending a staircase, or horizontally in a hallway. Though these prints mounted on wood resemble aquatint etchings or multiple plate block prints, they are all multiple exposure cyanotypes, technically cameraless photographs. The typical blueprint or sun print is of a stark white silhouette against a solid dark blue background, but I prefer to manipulate the darkening process to achieve various shades of blue. My multi-tone technique is inspired by different kinds of printmaking that I have practiced in the past, especially multi-plate monoprints, block prints and aquatints. It’s all dependent on composition and timing of successive exposures to light. The sides of the round solid wood panels are painted dark blue to match and each panel is ready to hang with a wire attached on the back. The paper used is a heavy 100% acid-free cotton watercolor paper which will not yellow with age. The surface of each is permanently sealed with a transparent, matte layer of acrylic gel medium to protect it against moisture, dust and dirt.
Multi-paneled Photography:Cyanotype on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:28 W x 28 H x 1 D in
Number of Panels:4
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Yes
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Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville), Jumaira Resort, Lux Habitat Sotheby’s International (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco (Salt Lake City), Mazars Accounting, Limelight Hotel Mammoth (California), MD Anderson Hospital (Houston), Oncology Center, Houston Methodist Hospital. For a complete list of my corporate clients, visit the "About" page of my website www.christineso.gallery/ To see videos of my artistic process, visit me on instagram at @christinesogallery I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway Hills” series are ever-present fixtures in my real life. Down below is the bay and above is an endless web of tree branches. Their silhouettes have etched themselves into my memory. My paintings and prints are always nature-inspired and nearly always monochromatic. Having spent a decade as a printmaker making woodcuts, linocuts, etchings, aquatints and monotypes, my mind works in monochrome. I focus on a single color, composition, positive and negative space, pattern, lines and shape. I currently work in two mediums, acrylic painting and cyanotypes, a form of camera-less photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century form of lensless photography also known as photograms, blueprints and sun prints. They resemble block prints or etchings but use no ink nor printing press. Light “etches” the image on paper I had painted with light-sensitive chemicals. MY NEWEST SERIES OF ABSTRACT CYANOTYPES: My technique is a form of experimental photography, much like the action painters Morris Louis, who poured his veil paintings, or Jackson Pollock who dripped and drizzled his. My abstract cyanotypes are luminous like watercolor paintings but are actually photographs. Each is a multiple-exposure lensless photograph make through deliberate movements of the light-sensitive paper during exposure to light. Different sections of the paper were exposed to light for a longer or shorter time, yielding multiple shades of blue. Each abstract cyanotype is entirely unique. These same lines, shapes and shades of blue cannot be recreated as the exposure of the paper was heavily manipulated by me during each printing. A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background.
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