Rebecca Aidlin "Woodcuts and Related Images"
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
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This exhibition features woodcut prints on handmade papers. (The papers were made by my mother, Myrna London Aidlin.) The prints either stand alone or are layered and combined with monoprint, stained paper, gouache painting and rubbings. Woodcut prints are done by carving an image into a block of wood, rolling a thin coat of ink on it, pressing paper over it, and pulling the paper away so that the image is on it.
The images are rooted in calligraphic lines, including legible texts from my own poetry, less legible text and abstracted calligraphic brush stroke lines. I explore the play and dialogue between text and image, which is influenced in part by Asian artworks that combine text and image, or use text as image. Most of these works are not done as editions, but as one-of-a-kind, journal-like series, which explore color variations and the shifts and changes that happen as I use layers of print, monoprint, painting, drawing and rubbings.
[image: Rebecca Aidlin "Banner Dnace"]
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Schedule
from September 09, 2008 to November 01, 2008