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Blue Fan 7 Painting

Katie Gallery

United States

Painting, Watercolor on Paper

Size: 26 W x 38 H x 0.1 D in

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Originally listed for $3,540

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

With all my pieces light catches it the whole way along and falls back to you like a hypnotic dance. Almost too pretty. The scale on the large ones though takes this effect to a new level, rendering the depth of the work profound and captivating. The pigments used have a special effect upon the eye when given more space upon which to interact, similar to the transcendent effect spoken about when people gaze into Rothkos or Pollacks. All the pieces are made with a latex resist followed by layers of handmade paint. The paintings use a 16th century Japanese pigment recipe with funori as the binder for rich pigments and micas. The mica palette varies in colors plated with elements, titanium for silver and tin for gold, to create subtle hues and changing shifting colors. Shimmer changes throughout the day and pieces will look different in different lights. The artist calls this the "Ghost in the room" affect. Katie's work has a strong sales and gallery record. She is shown by Gallery Sensei in New York and London, Art Fair Exhibitions, and her pop locations up in NYC. Her work is featured in corporate settings such as Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship NYC store and can be found in the homes international private collectors. Truthfully, no piece is anything but original, so even another wont feel exactly like this one...be daring and dive.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Watercolor on Paper

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

26 W x 38 H x 0.1 D in

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My largest influence has been the tribe of artisans and makers who raised me up. I find Australian Aboriginal painters deeply moving because of my roots. Their commitment to the present moment, the idea of painting as a community story, is an important part of the process. I love the idea of the nothing that is the outback, and how painters there have created an industry for themselves out of the stories of their lives and history. My favorite, Dorothy Napangardi and the other Napangardi sisters, have a painted language that echoes through time. All of my watercolor paintings are mixed from pigment by hand, creating unique, one-of-a-kind hues. Pigments come from all over the world and are light-durable, synthetic, and non toxic whenever possible. In addition to gum arabic, the age-old watercolor binder, the pieces heavily use funori, a Japanese seaweed. Often used in archival book binding, the funori is used to lift and carry dense pure pigments over the paper with a unique body and flow not often seen in traditional watercolor. The paper is beautiful 100% cotton Coventry Rag Legion made, like the artist, in the early 1970s, and is uniquely able to take the process. It was created largely for Erte, and had a certain stability in the gold leaf he used in his work. How it handles the metallic pigments and the dense layers is why it is the preferred paper above all others for the process. The Fibonacci series is often used in my work to create patterns with the beauty and nuance of the numbers. The I Ching, with its patterns of lines coming forever down, up, and rising through the random noise to give us insight into the nature of change, is another patterning influence. The patterns are laid in using a latex white, and despite much experimentation, the best resist is still Jackson Pollack's favorite, housepaint. I also mix it with silk painting resists. This causes a ghosting and patterning around the resist, which is really beautiful and works perfectly with the paper. There is no right way to look at these beauties. Turn them around and upside down, I make them on a table that spins so the right way is your way. The mica pigments change depending on the angle and light you see them under. So let them get a little sun, live with them, love them. These aren't just paintings, they are life long friends.

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