Silk Road I & IISilk Road I & IISilk Road I & II
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Silk Road I & II

Janet Yagoda Shagam

Woodcut and hand drawn on Okawara Japanese paper. Not editioned. Image: 12" x 15" Sold together, framed.

18"x24"x1"
4 lbs

Price


$1600.00
Silk Road I & II
Silk Road I & II
Silk Road I & II
Silk Road I & II Small Room
The prints Silk Road I and II, along with the works of other American printmakers, were selected for an exchange show with printmakers from Shanghai. The Silk Road, a trade route built more than 2,000 years ago, connected Europe, Northern Africa, Indo-Asia, and China. My use of -nomadic-lines and layers of jewel-like colors is my way of exploring the connections between the exchange of goods and increased cultural richness.
Janet Yagoda Shagam

Janet Yagoda Shagam. Albuquerque, NM

Artist Statement

The hand of the invisible mark-maker is an on-going influence in my work. The invisible mark-maker includes such things as weathering and the wear-and-tear people impose on surfaces. Finding, collecting, and transferring these marks into my work takes the ability to welcome serendipitous events and the insight to respond to and incorporate inherited marks into my work.

Best advice you’ve been given • Work from your heart

Goals/Aspirations • To have other people enjoy my art to the extent that they want to live with it at home – something I consider a great honor.

Favorite artist • Agnes Martin and Dorothy Napangardi, an Australian aboriginal artist. Both use patterned marks – lines or dots – that draw me into a deeply reflective space.

What are you reading • The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

Hope to learn how to • Figure out how to do vitreography - essentially “lithography” using a grained glass surface as the matrix.

You spend a lot of time thinking about • Ways to solve various art and writing challenges, but thoughts about what to make for dinner and picking up the dry cleaning also occupy considerable brain space.

Favorite musical artist • Antoine Dvorak, Béla Bartók, George Walker, and Dame Evelyn Glennie to Sixto Rodriquez, Johnny Cash, and Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers.

What do you do when not creating art • I write, garden, swim, tend to my bee hives, make bread, and enjoy my family and friends.

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