| Maker(s): | Peterfreund, Lynn | | Culture: | American (1952- )
| | Title: | Into from the portfolio Traces
| | Date Made: | 2016
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Etching and aquatint on Hahnemühle Copperplate
| | Place Made: | Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, Massachusetts
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 15 1/16 in x 11 3/16 in; 38.3 cm x 28.4 cm; Plate: 6 3/8 in x 6 3/8 in; 16.2 cm x 16.2 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | SIGNATURE/DATE: front, lwr. r. (graphite): lynn peterfreund 16; TITLE: front, lwr. ctr. (graphite): Into; EDITION: front, lwr, l. (graphite): 9/15; WATERMARK: front, upp. l.: encircled rooster
| | Accession Number: | UM 2019.1.16
| | Credit Line: | Purchase with Art Acquisition Funds
| | Museum Collection: | University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst
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Description:
Field of abstract gestural brushstrokes of black, white, and gray. The plate is surrounded by a large border of white paper. One of twenty objects in the portfolio, “Traces,” inspired by the poem of the same title by Annie G. Rogers.
Label Text:
Artist's statements:
“Into”, the title, is from the line of the poem I focused on, from the third stanza of the poem (blizzard) “The blizzard we dream opens into a room…” is the particular line but I think the sentiment I found there is present throughout the poem: the ephemeral nature of what we want to control, the constant movement and change. The truth in the moment is that that moment will quickly become another, obscured by the blizzard.
I used gestural marks to evoke the movement and power of the blizzard, the layers of time that have no point of focus. And, that we try to create structures, or rooms to contain time, change, feelings, thoughts, memory.”
Subjects:
Copper; Aquatint; Etching Link to share this object record:
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