Keith Gerling

Iris, Mixed Media on Paper

2014

This image of an iris in my garden is offered as a unique print using watercolor pigment and casein hardened with the bichromate process over cyanotype on watercolor paper. It is 10...

This image of an iris with buds is offered as a unique print using watercolor pigment and casein hardened with the bichromate process over cyanotype on watercolor paper. It is 10x15...

This image of iris buds in my garden is offered as a unique print using watercolor pigment and casein hardened with the bichromate process over cyanotype on watercolor paper. It is ...

This image of a hyacinth in my garden is offered as a unique print using watercolor pigment and casein hardened with the bichromate process over cyanotype on watercolor paper. It is...

Ms. Wen resides in New York City as a full-time artist. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1980s. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her BFA from Washington State University, MA, and MFA from the State University of New York at Albany. In 1979, she won the First Prize in Painting in the Ten Outstanding Young Talents Competition in Taiwan. In 1980, she was awarded Outstanding Merit in the Young Artists in Asia Now competition in Hong Kong. In 1995 and 1996, her work was selected in many national and international jury shows, including the ninth and tenth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. Large Small Work '95' International, Small Works International, First Annual National Juried Small Work Exhibition in New York, NY. These shows are highly competitive and are chosen from thousands of submissions. Leigh won the SUNY Albany Purchase Award in 1995 and the University of Wisconsin Purchase Award in the 1995 Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. She was also awarded an Artist Grant by the National Taiwan Art...

ARTIST STATEMENT: Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by te...

Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...