Core Connect Print

Over the last two years I have been striving to find ways to let go of my need to control the outcome of a work, and to bring more spontaneity in. "Core," my newest series, does just that, and more, arriving as it does out of both the immediacy of gestural drawing and a great deal of experimentation in the printshop. First, in early 2012, I attended the dance rehearsals of an amazing experimental dance group based in Brooklyn called "KoreResponse." While at their rehearsal space, I used india ink and litho pencil on mylar, working rapidly, capturing not simply the dancers' forms but what I felt to be the essence of their movement. Later, in the studio, I transferred these transparent drawings directly into solar etching plates. I went through almost 40 artist's proofs as I experimented with a huge variety of processes and media, eventually settling on silkscreen and collagraph. The silkscreens show a brushy quality of line; the collagraphs,* by their very nature, add something less literal, more 'felt.' I like the fact that this latter technique didn't leave an outline, but rather an embossment, a more internal synonym for the idea I was striving for with 'Core.' When does a figure, abstracted, stop being just a figure? How far must it be abstracted until it becomes a metaphor, a part of something greater than itself? I asked myself these questions as I worked. "Core" was my exuberant, enigmatic answer. *Collagraphy is a printmaking technique in which various 3-D textures are applied to a board; the board is then inked like a regular intaglio or relief plate, and run through the press.

Printmaking:Screenprinting on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:43.8 W x 29 H x 1 D in

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