Alyssa Sakina Mumtaz

Portal

2021

Watercolor and natural mineral pigments on handmade paper. Framed dimensions 11.25" x 11".

Watercolor and natural mineral pigments on handmade paper. Framed dimensions 11.25" x 11".

Watercolor and natural mineral pigments on handmade paper. Framed dimensions 11.25" x 11".

Watercolor and natural mineral pigments on handmade paper. Framed dimensions 11.25" x 11".

Watercolor and natural mineral pigments on handmade paper. Framed dimensions 11.25" x 11".

Watercolor and natural mineral pigments on handmade paper. Framed dimensions 11.25" x 11".

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

"Sisters #2", 2019 by Valerie Hammond 73 x 34.5 inches unframed Pigment, Color Pencil, Wax, Glass Beads, and thread on Japanese Rice Paper Coated with Beeswax Vertical, indigo panels that are unframed, can be installed with magnets, but framing is recommended. In Valerie Hammond’s series of wax drawings, protection is two-fold: the artist (previously) encases dried flowers and ferns in a thin layer of wax, preserving their fragile tissues long after they’ve been plucked from the ground. In outlining a pair of hands, she also secures a memory, or rather, “the essence of a gesture and the fleeting moment in which it was made.” Centered on limbs lying flat on Japanese paper, the ongoing series dates back to the 1990s, when Hammond made the first tracing “partly in response to the death of a dear friend, whose beautiful hands I often found myself remembering.” She continued by working with family and friends, mainly women and children, to delineate their wrists, palms, and fingers. Today, the series features dozens of works that are comprised of either hands tethered to the dried botanics, which sprout outward in wispy tendrils, or others over layed with thread and glass beads. Although the delicate pieces began as a simple trace, Hammond shares that she soon began to overlay the original drawing with pressed florals, creating encaustic assemblages that “echoed the body’s bones, veins, and circulatory systems.” She continued to experiment with the series by introducing various techniques, including printmaking, Xerox transfers, and finally Photoshop inversions, that distorted the original rendering...

"Sisters #4", 2019 by Valerie Hammond 72 x 35 inches unframed Pigment, Color Pencil, Wax, Glass Beads, and thread on Japanese Rice Paper Coated with Beeswax Vertical, indigo panels ...

“This series of paintings was significant for me to make. It marked the return to the studio after a year at home due to the pandemic. New iterations began to emerge (Vessels + Statu...

Julien Tomasello is a multi-disciplinary artist based in San Francisco Bay, CA. Collage is one of Julien’s main forms of art. His collage works are expansive and rich in details. T...

In Last Noon Beheld Them color, line, shape, and texture collide with handwritten romantic fragments of prose on Kozuke ivory paper. This one-of-a-kind, unmounted encaustic monotype ...