Description:
This woodblock print features a few large shapes. There is a textured greenish tan triangular block, an organic apricot and forest green half circle with a curvy edges, and a parallelogram in the same shade of green. The artist also softly overlays a bright yellow.
Label Text:
In her mixed-media prints, Gross says, she attempts “to create spaces to enter.” As she explores the interplay between positive and negative space, her “shape-shifting variations” achieve a three-dimensional effect on a two-dimensional plane. Gross layers forms using a combination of intaglio and relief techniques (drypoint, aquatint, and woodblock). She exploits the plywood grain for added texture, and her use of vivid color, often enhanced with neon spray paint, breaks up the abstract shapes, investing unfamiliar forms with an odd sense of solid, object-like familiarity, as in "Trapping," or of landscape, as in "Tablet."
MW, 2014
Tags:
abstract; representation; perspective Link to share this object record:
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