Trying to Focus
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Trying to Focus

Barbara Shapiro

Silkscreen, collagraph on mulberry paper. Edition 4 of 8

18"x26"
0.05 lbs

Price


$350.00
Trying to Focus
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This print is done using silkscreened images with multiple collagraphs on a translucent Japanese mulberry paper. The patterns on the edges fade to nothing in the middle, where the marks suggest an eye’s iris and marks around it seem to point in a direction but nothing is really clear. It is often the way we see.
Barbara Shapiro

Barbara Shapiro. Albuquerque, NM

Artist Statement

My abstract, hand-made prints on archival paper have multiple layers of different printmaking and painting techniques. I use the beauty of textures, colors, patterns and shapes from bark, leaves, plants, stones, sky and other things from nature to capture a particular mood or experience. I use man-made architectural or geometric shapes and lines to contrast and emphasize this weathered, irregular natural beauty.

Best advice you’ve been given • Do it with conviction!

Goals/Aspirations • Continue to explore the variations of making prints. Experiment not only with the methods but use more three-dimensional constructs, like printing on wood.

Favorite artist • It is hard to choose one, I like so many for different reasons. Helen Frankenthaler. I love her field painting and her woodblock prints.

What are you reading • Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers by Leonard Kohen.

Hope to learn how to • Create wood sculptures

You spend a lot of time thinking about • Art, change and adaptation

Favorite musical artist • Hard to pick one, I like classical and folk music

What do you do when not creating art • Gardening, reading, cooking, taking care of business.

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