Re-Write, Mixed Media (painting, collage, and printmaking including intaglio, relief and monotype), 58x28 inches each panel, 5 shown, 58x150 inches installed, 2025
In the Dark Sunlight, Mixed Media (painted paper on Japanese gampi, relief print, collage), 39x53 inches (diptych), 2025
Herd not Heard, Mixed Media (relief print, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage), 36x29 inches, 2025
See Him Roar, Mixed Media (relief print, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage), 31x39 inches, 2025
Re-Write (pink), Mixed Media (relief print, intaglio, monotype, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage) 58x28 inches, 2025
Re-Write (red), Mixed Media (relief print, monotype, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage) 58x28 inches, 2025
Re-Write (yellow), Mixed Media (relief print, monotype, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage) 58x28 inches, 2025
Re-Write (green), Mixed Media (relief print, monotype, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage) 58x28 inches, 2025
Re-Write (orange), Mixed Media (relief print, monotype, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage) 58x28 inches, 2025
Just Water Once a Week/Re-Write (blue), Mixed Media (relief print, monotype, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage) 58x28 inches, 2025
Heard Not Herd, Mixed Media (relief print, oil, gouache, Japanese gampi, collage) 30x28 inches, 2025
Pieces and Whole, Mixed Media (painted paper on Japanese gampi, relief print, collage), 30x64 inches, 2025
Using family photographs from the 1960s, I employ printmaking methods and collage to transform an image. When I unearthed the snapshots several years ago, I was struck by how consistently the girls were merely still, placid observers while their brother was active and emotive. In works exponentially larger and more vibrant than the tiny black and white source snapshots, I create variations. Some show the girls fragmented, obliterated. But in others, the girls come alive. They are reimagined, re-cast into the light, centered.
These works were made using printmaking methods that span intaglio (color etching), monotype, screen printing, relief (linocut as well as gaufrage using a woodcut). Collage plays in important role. The gingham pattern comes from hundreds to thousands of individually cut painted paper squares and colored Japanese gampi paper.