NYAB Event - "Street Scenes Relief prints that capture the time within a moment" Exhibition

"Street Scenes Relief prints that capture the time within a moment" Exhibition

Brooklyn Public Library (Central)

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The works I am presenting are relief prints based on my observations and experiences of the Brooklyn street scene. I try to create a uniquely urban picture in which all of the various human and architectural elements gel into a visual poetry of movement and life. I attempt to walk the edge between telling a story and capturing a random moment of Brooklyn street life. It is up to the viewer to decide what is happening, or even if something is happening.

City people inhabit their space in unique and different ways: Many are enclosed in their own bubble and intent on their own agenda; some push outside their bubble and challenge the space of others; some (like me) are secretly watching; some want to be seen; some are selling; some are buying; some are just wandering; some are going home; and some are at home on the street. I try to contrast these diverse urban actors with each other and unify them within their environment, which includes buildings, sidewalks, street signs, automobiles and trees. I see these aspects of the environment as having personalities, attitudes and stories of their own to tell. Sometimes people on the street seem to have a connection or awareness of each other, but mostly they are connected only by the public space they share.

The design elements in my prints–some of which are uniquely influenced by the relief print process–help create both the visual tension and harmonies in my work; these elements include strong directional movement and counter-movement, spatial relationships, light, tonal gradation, graphic shapes, and textures.

The medium of relief printing, with its gritty and blunt visual textures and rhythms, is well suited to the feeling of the city. When this historic printmaking technique–the world's oldest–is used with a contemporary eye, it reflects both the present pulse of life and the history imbedded in the modern urban landscape.

Media

• Drawing
• Prints

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