Description:
In this print, round green forms form a sequence of peaks and valleys in the bottom third of the plane, akin to rolling green hills or neatly trimmed hedges. A similar organic form is printed upside down in the center of the image and in black. The "tablet", a black rectangle in the center of a soft layer of neon red, glows above this--its tilted angle giving a false sense of three dimensional perspective.
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; gardens; landscapes; nature; vegetation Link to share this object record:
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