Emma Levine

Block Copper Beech - mixed media lasercut paper tree acrylic pins copper

2017

material: paper, silver leaf, pins, crystal dust silk wrapped board framed and glazed Emma delicately cuts images, especially trees, from a medium like felt or paper and pins them m...

Emma delicately cuts images, especially trees, from a medium like felt or paper and pins them minutely to their chosen background, raised ethereally from the surface, forming beautif...

Emma delicately cuts images, especially trees, from a medium like felt or paper and pins them minutely to their chosen background, raised ethereally from the surface, forming beautif...

Emma delicately cuts images, especially trees, from a medium like felt or paper and pins them minutely to their chosen background, raised ethereally from the surface, forming beautif...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Butterflies cut from International Currency and gold foil, arranged in the shape of a target, and pinned with stainless steel entomology pins to canvas. Framed in a white, wooden frame. About Charles Patrick Charles Patrick is best known for his intricately cut paper butterflies, suspended like museum specimens on individual entomology pins and clustered together to form icons, logos, and symbols against the backdrop of pristine canvases. Living in a world between the paper and digital ages, these works conjure feelings of nostalgia for the tactility of paper, created from vintage comic books, children’s books, currency, maps, and other obsolete ephemera. This stands in jarring contrast to the clean, pixelated designs that the butterflies form which exchange individual emotion for the universal immediacy of today’s contemporary visual language. Targets, hearts, ohms, and stars pop from the canvas in three-dimension - a fresh departure from the flat screens that are the norm today. With a background in vintage poster restoration, illustration, and printmaking, Charles Patrick combines his love of paper, art history, and design to create works that are both strikingly beautiful and poignantly thought-provoking. Charles lives and works between Cos Cob...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Butterflies cut from Vintage Comic Book Pages, arranged in the shape of Wonder Woman, and pinned with stainless steel entomology pins to canvas. Framed in a clear, plexiglass box. Available Sizes (Framed Size) Standard 48" x 36" About Charles Patrick Charles Patrick is best known for his intricately cut paper...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Butterflies cut from silver foil, arranged in the shape of the word DOPE, and pinned with stainless steel entomology pins to canvas. Framed in a clear, plexiglass box. Available Sizes (Framed Size) Standard 36" x 36" About Charles Patrick Charles Patrick is best known for his intricately cut paper...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Fine art paper cut into the shape of butterflies and pinned to canvas in the shape of a circle with stainless steel entomology pins, painted with liquid...