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The "Building Block" series derives from a panel created in 2006. “The painting felt like it contained the core vocabulary for what I believed to be future works. Creating the prints helped me realize the armature of the painting was its structure and that the color was subordinate,” explains Sperry.
The artist shaped the abstracted image with the block reduction technique, which Pablo Picasso popularized in the early 1960s. “I think Picasso wanted that same energy and immediacy when he made his bullfight prints,” Sperry says. Working on a single piece of Shina (Japanese plywood), Sperry successively carved off areas of the block, while inking and printing each resulting shape in a different color on a sheet of paper. A final multicolor impression—in this case, a single print—emerged as a result of the artist’s search for a nonrepresentational translation of her reflective observations and studies of nature.
MW, 2014
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