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Medium: Ink
Tomorrow is a Better Day
Located in Detroit, MI
Hope breathes life into this ethereal work, rooted in the historic city of Kraków, Poland, which dates back to the seventh century. Set within the UNESCO-listed Old Town, home to Eur...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Navajo Way
Located in Detroit, MI
Ascending from the depths of darkness a Navajo shaman led the artists to this secret sacred location. There once the sun began to rise the artists experienced ancient wisdom from wor...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Winter's Gems
Located in Detroit, MI
It was one of those rare days when sheets of ice simultaneously creating treacherous conditions and stunningly out-of-this-world experiences. The artist braved the weather firmly com...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Son of Twilight
Located in Detroit, MI
Inspired by a photographic image made by the artists from behind the Seljalandsfoss waterfall in Iceland, this work generates feelings of flowing love and emotion. Affection is conta...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

"Marmara Totem" abstract mixed media collage, (blue, red, brown, silver grey)
Located in New York, NY
12"x9" mixed media collage: acrylic, metallic watercolor and papers, ink, collage dressmaking patterns, framing options available. Linda Ganjian's artwork captivates with its ornat...
Category

2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Foil

Night Vision
Located in Detroit, MI
This surrealistic yet representational work with abstracted elements invites viewers to come along on an exploration of what's seen, symbolic and hidden. An all night photography sho...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Moon Children
Located in Detroit, MI
This work, deeply interwoven with  the moon, nurtures miraculous springtime bounty. Embracing all that nature provides, lunar movements regulating life's rhythms are seen and felt he...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Comfort Zone
Located in Detroit, MI
Comfy cozy is conjured by this wondrous work, but what is it? A flower, an abstraction or something unique in nature? It's a delightful caterpillar curled up into a ball resting on t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Pansy 1
Located in Napa, CA
Liz Barber pursued painting while obtaining her degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Moore College of Art. She currently resides in Marietta, Georgia. Barber’s paintings ...
Category

2010s Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Graphite

Damping Coefficient
Located in Henderson, NV
Damping Coefficient is an continuation of Algebraic Relativization of Geometry 2022 now available for sale.
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Damping Coefficient
Located in Henderson, NV
Damping Coefficient is a continuation of my piece entitled: Algebraic Relativization of Geometry, 2022.
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Infinity Found
Located in Detroit, MI
Understanding infinity was made possible through the work of Albert Einstein (b. 1879) - the guiding inspiration for this work. Color fields bring to life all that exists, was, is, a...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Geometrical Clouds. One Continual Line
Located in Henderson, NV
Geometrical Clouds is an ongoing series since1974. This was originally a pencil and ink on paper drawing. It has be reimagined as Archival Ink on Canvas.
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Animus
Located in Detroit, MI
Right brain left brain energies and the male and female components within inspired this series of two. This work in Jungian psychology represents the divine masculine component as on...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Geometrical Bird
Located in Henderson, NV
Geometrical Birds is a Series which I started in 1975 as pencil with ink on paper and ink on raw canvas. This Geometrical Bird has been reimagined as archival ink on canvas.
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Anima
Located in Detroit, MI
Right and left brain duality together with the male and female dichotomy inspired this series of two. In Jungian psychology the divine feminine component is depicted in this work, sh...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Linear Drawing
Located in Henderson, NV
Linear drawing was done in 1975 along with many other drawings done in this style using pencil with ink on paper. This work has been reimagined as archival ink on canvas.
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Brachystochrone Problem
Located in Henderson, NV
Brachystochrone is a mathematical problem dealing with line curvature.
Category

2010s Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Logarithmic Study
Located in Henderson, NV
Logarithmic Study. 1974. Archival Ink on Canvas. Originally done on Logarithmic Engineering Graph Paper and thjen transferred as watercolor on paper is now reimagined as archival in...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Apollonius. Proposition 46
Located in Henderson, NV
Apollonius. Proposition 46. Archival Ink on Canvas. 20 x 30 inches.
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

Oblique Strophoid
Located in Henderson, NV
Oblique Strophoid. 2023
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Archival Ink

SpringDither2
Located in New York, NY
"My work is based on visualizations of energy, inspired by particle physics and forms in nature. I use the lines of colliding atomic particles to explore a new language of abstractio...
Category

2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Panel, Inkjet

Coriolis Dither 5
Located in New York, NY
"My work is based on visualizations of energy, inspired by particle physics and forms in nature. I use the lines of colliding atomic particles to explore a new language of abstractio...
Category

2010s Abstract Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Panel, Inkjet

Linda Stein, New York Times and Doodles 989 - Contemporary Art Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, New York Times and Doodles 989 - Contemporary Art Drawing Collage Linda Stein started her Knights of Protection series after she was forced to evacuate her New York dow...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Magazine Paper

Linda Stein, Three Protectors 1001 - Contemporary 3D Sculptural Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Three Protectors 1001 - Contemporary 3D Sculptural Drawing Collage In 2000, Linda Stein began a series called Knights of Protection. Her Knights functioned both as de...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Cotton, Paper, Ink, Magazine Paper

Linda Stein, Stillness and Diversity in Town 999 Contemporary 3D Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Stillness and Diversity in Town 999 - Contemporary 3D Sculptural Drawing Collage In 2000, Linda Stein began a series called Knights of Protection. Her Knights functio...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Cotton, Paper, Ink, Magazine Paper

Google m’a tuer
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Manitoba - Google killed me -2017 Technique mixing acrylic and ink on laptop computer. Dimensions: 36 x 27 x 4 cm Unique work delivered with the certif...
Category

2010s Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Fuck the Luxe Naomie N°06
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rose Agathe Steiner, has reserved us an exclusivity! His creations on aerosol cans. Unique work. This work, dedicated to Naomie Campbell, bears the number...
Category

2010s Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Fuck the Luxe Naomie N°05
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rose Agathe Steiner, has reserved us an exclusivity! His creations on aerosol cans. Unique work. This work, dedicated to Naomie Campbell, bears the number 05. Double signature of the...
Category

2010s Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Fuck the Luxe Naomie N°03
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rose Agathe Steiner, has reserved us an exclusivity! His creations on aerosol cans. Unique work. This work, dedicated to Naomie Campbell, carries the N° 03. Double signature of the a...
Category

2010s Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Hear This
Located in Detroit, MI
Nashville and the string theory at the intersection of music + technology ground and provide inspiration for this work. The "Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machine...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

Learning to Write 995 - 3D Sculptural Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
In 2000, Linda Stein began a series called Knights of Protection. Her Knights functioned both as defenders in battle and symbols of pacifism. In 2019, Stein re-conceived her Kni...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Cotton, Archival Pigment

Red Profile Behind Arch 994 - Contemporary Art Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
In 2000, Linda Stein began a series called Knights of Protection. Her Knights functioned both as defenders in battle and symbols of pacifism. In 2019, Stein re-conceived her Kni...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Magazine Paper

Four Figures 985 - Contemporary Art Drawing Collage
Located in New York, NY
In 2000, Linda Stein began a series called Knights of Protection. Her Knights functioned both as defenders in battle and symbols of pacifism. In 2019, Stein re-conceived her Kni...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Archival Paper, Ink

Untitled #3 - Emmanuelle Messika, 21st Century, Abstract drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Coloured inks and pastel on paper Signed Gestural abstraction Outsider art Artist’s statement : "Painting, for me, is an expressive endeavor in which one depicts the evolution of the various facets of the artistic self. There is, on each canvas, a tension where violence and stillness naturally coexist. By playing with different materials, I seek to establish a sort of unexpected dialogue between these states, and aspire to express this tension through profusion of color. The canvas is the stage that allows me to unite narration with the action of painting the fantastic—even the outrageous---and the everyday. I develop scenarios borrowed from the imagination, which join fantasy, even fables, with the everyday. Pulling threads from each domain, I bring together the mythical and the quotidian, so that the worlds of reality and fantasy merge. I rely on “creatures,” improbable little characters that could exist in some other realm or dimension. They materialize, issuing forth from the surprising, unbelievable and wondrous world of childhood. Human or animal, both find themselves entangled in inextricable and melancholic situations. These inextricable situations create distance; the humor comes through this breach. It is the absurdity of their predicaments that manifests the humor in the work. In each of my paintings, the sentiments are heightened by an intentional, provocative tone that transforms the work. An Otherness is attributed to objects; objects become personified, and by their very presence, they become witnesses or guinea pigs torn between and bound to their dilemma. The titles of my paintings, whether invented or quotations taken out of context, come from literature, theater, or song lyrics. Accident and chance are often major actors in my work.” Emmanuelle Messika BIOGRAPHY : Emmanuelle Messika was born in France in 1979. She works and lives in Paris. STUDIES 1999-2005 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris Diplômée en Juin 2005 2004 Échange universitaire à Hunter College, New York NY, USA 1993-1999 Ateliers des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Montparnasse PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS : 2019 Claire Corcia Gallery, Paris 2018 Claire Corcia Gallery, Paris Outsider Art Fair, Paris 2012 Art Contemporain Sèvres, "La Chartreuse", Sèvres 2011 Espace Seven, Galerie De Vos, Paris 2010 Les Trois Baudets, Paris Galerie Mariska Hammoudi, Paris Galerie Crous -Beaux-Arts, Paris L'Apparemment Café, Paris 2009 Espace Rachi, Paris 2008 Galerie Console, Paris 2007 Exposition Place du Québec, Mairie du sixième, Paris 2006 Galerie Eonnet-Dupuis, Paris 2005 Galerie Crous Beaux Arts, Paris 2004 The Mark Bar, "Bring your own flashlight", Brooklin, New York 2003 Le Glaz’art, Paris 2002 9 rue Dauphine, Paris 2001 Galerie Gauche, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris 2000 La grosse caisse, Paris La liberté, Paris GROUP SHOWS 2011 Chic Art Fair, Galerie Mariska Hammoudi Galerie De Vos, Espace Seven 2010 Galerie Mariska Hammoudi, Paris Chic Dessin, avec Cherry Gallery...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Ink

"The Faun" by Anna Pennati - from George Byron poems
Located in Milano, MI
Inspired by George Byron's poem – "Sun of the sleepless" Exhibited in Milan (Italy) in 2005. Part of a series o 10 Exclusively on 1stdibs measures are referred to the painting. Pass...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic

"The Angel" by Anna Pennati - from William Blake and George Byron poems
Located in Milano, MI
Inspired by William Blake's poem "The Angel" Exhibited in Milan (Italy) in 2005. Part of a series o 10 Exclusively on 1stdibs measures are referred to the painting. Passepartout is ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Acrylic

Feminist Contemporary Fabric Sculptural Wall Tapestry - Noor Inayat Khan 1131
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Noor Inayat Khan 1131 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Sculptural Wall Tapestry Noor Inayat Khan 1131 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which highlights Holocaust-era female heroes. Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2013, in which she combines archival images of a subject with her pantheon of female Exemplars--Wonder Woman, Princess Mononoke, Storm, Nausicaa, Kannon, and Lady Gaga--with multiple fabrics and leather. Noor Inayat Khan 1131 features Noor Inayat Khan, a Special Operations Executive agent, who became the first female radio operator to be sent from Britain to aid the French resistance...
Category

2010s Feminist Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Metal

"Kitchen Melody 03" by Anna Pennati, ink on paper
Located in Milano, MI
Kitchen Melody is a series of ink-on-paper works inspired by kitchen utensils. A corkscrew is depicted in this work. Created for a restaurant opening in 2015.
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink

"Kitchen Melody 05" by Anna Pennati, ink on paper
Located in Milano, MI
Kitchen Melody is a series of ink-on-paper works inspired by kitchen utensils. This work depicts the juicer Created for a restaurant opening in 2015.
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink

"Kitchen Melody 04" by Anna Pennati, ink on paper
Located in Milano, MI
Kitchen Melody is a series of ink-on-paper works inspired by kitchen utensils. Cutlery is depicted in this work. Created for a restaurant opening in 2015.
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink

Turbulence VIII
Located in Lenox, MA
Turbulence VIII 42" x 100" Pigment, Graphite and Sumi Ink on Archival Paper Unique Framed 105.5" x 44.5": $18,000
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Sumi Ink, Graphite, Pigment

Turbulence IV
Located in Lenox, MA
Turbulence IV 64" x 42" Pigment, Graphite and Sumi Ink on Archival Paper Unique Framed 67.5" x 46.5": $12,500
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite, Pigment

Turbulence III
Located in Lenox, MA
Turbulence III 64" x 42" Pigment, Graphite and Sumi Ink on Archival Paper Unique Framed 67.5" x 46.5": $12,500
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Sumi Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite, Pigment

Stephanie Todhunter, Donna, Mixed Media, 2019
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stephanie Todhunter Title: Donna Year: 2019 Size: 8"x7"x4" Material: Plaster of paris, found objects, spraypaint, alcohol inks
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Plaster, Found Objects, Ink, Spray Paint

Escala
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Intervalos
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Ritmo
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Arrítmico
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Caligrafía arrítmica
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Sin título, rhythm, pins,
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Sin título, rhythm, pins,
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

Un alto
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Lidzie Alvisa Jiménez (Havana in 1969), one of the most recognized conceptual artists in Cuba, studied from the elementary level to the ISA (Superior Institute of Art), graduating in...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pins

1924 Bugotte Vintage Car - Antique Automotive Stamp Series Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
1924 Bugotte Vintage Car - Antique Automotive Stamp Series- Illustration Illustration showing a 1924 Bugotte vintage blue car. Antique car stamp ...
Category

20th Century Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Board, Pencil

1937 Rolls Royce - Antique Automotive Stamp Series Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of the 1937 Rolls Royce Vintage Car - from the Antique Automotive Stamp Series Illustration showing a chauffeur next a 1937 Roll...
Category

20th Century Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Board, Pencil

"The Clandestine Traveler, " Ink, watercolor, graphite on paper
Located in New York, NY
Known for her idiosyncratic cartographic explorations of the psyche and mental states, Smith incorporates outer and inner geographical regions in this piece. The finished work is a d...
Category

2010s Conceptual Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Graphite

Taking Place
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien who have been inspired by the explorers of the past. Like them, she draws, in part, on the singular tradition of polar exploration narratives as well as fictions such as Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur” (1981), a utopian feminist hoax in which a party of South American women reach the South Pole in 1909, two years before the official arrival of European explorers. Le Guin’s explorers do not feel compelled to leave any written record or physical proof of their presence at the South Pole. If Le Guin’s women might have made it, what other traces have been missed? Collage can work alongside alternative history: it interprets, interrupts, and rearranges. It questions the completed whole, instead emphasizing composition and relation. Collage suggests it all might be … otherwise. Houston’s collages flaunt their second nature. Yet what they show remains somehow plausible. You want to believe what you’re beginning to see. In “A life Attuned to Larger Rhythms” Houston grids out rectangles of captured images to overwhelm the eye as the polar environment itself might (whiteout is a paradoxical species of optical overstimulation). Through the strangely ordered confusion of an ice survey grafted atop a chessboard, the mind begins to recognize new connections, emergent shapes: a different future? In “Launching Strategy” a yellow-orange pyramid balances garishly atop a tent. Which came first, the realist tent or the Platonic shape? Can we ever be sure that we’re not already seeing through premade abstractions? Or is it that baggage we’ve been dragging along? In “Architecture of the Anthropocene” and “Red Blood, Red Earth” Houston reroutes visually symbolic through-lines between women and non-European people and the official history in which they appear dimly or not at all. A full-skirted woman holds onto the tether of a kite that seems to pull her upwards towards a weather balloon floating above an Antarctic base’s radio tower; a row of tropical workers wielding pickaxes folds into the trajectory of a sailor aiming a bow and arrow at an iceberg stained with red. These are not people or images normally associated with polar discovery. But shouldn’t they matter? “Territory Over Land” strips in a scene from a painted depiction of the tropics, possibly from one of Captain James Cook’s circumnavigations. “Captain Cook’s Legacy” more directly confronts an official portrait of Cook with the torn-in eyes from what can only be described as the explorer’s anonymous dark Other. The hybrid portrait is a kind of contact zone. “Henson and Peary – Past Entanglements” is a cooler, less volatile twin portrait of disputed discoverer of the North Pole Robert Peary...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

The Fatigue of the Conquest
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien who have been inspired by the explorers of the past. Like them, she draws, in part, on the singular tradition of polar exploration narratives as well as fictions such as Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur” (1981), a utopian feminist hoax in which a party of South American women reach the South Pole in 1909, two years before the official arrival of European explorers. Le Guin’s explorers do not feel compelled to leave any written record or physical proof of their presence at the South Pole. If Le Guin’s women might have made it, what other traces have been missed? Collage can work alongside alternative history: it interprets, interrupts, and rearranges. It questions the completed whole, instead emphasizing composition and relation. Collage suggests it all might be … otherwise. Houston’s collages flaunt their second nature. Yet what they show remains somehow plausible. You want to believe what you’re beginning to see. In “A life Attuned to Larger Rhythms” Houston grids out rectangles of captured images to overwhelm the eye as the polar environment itself might (whiteout is a paradoxical species of optical overstimulation). Through the strangely ordered confusion of an ice survey grafted atop a chessboard, the mind begins to recognize new connections, emergent shapes: a different future? In “Launching Strategy” a yellow-orange pyramid balances garishly atop a tent. Which came first, the realist tent or the Platonic shape? Can we ever be sure that we’re not already seeing through premade abstractions? Or is it that baggage we’ve been dragging along? In “Architecture of the Anthropocene” and “Red Blood, Red Earth” Houston reroutes visually symbolic through-lines between women and non-European people and the official history in which they appear dimly or not at all. A full-skirted woman holds onto the tether of a kite that seems to pull her upwards towards a weather balloon floating above an Antarctic base’s radio tower; a row of tropical workers wielding pickaxes folds into the trajectory of a sailor aiming a bow and arrow at an iceberg stained with red. These are not people or images normally associated with polar discovery. But shouldn’t they matter? “Territory Over Land” strips in a scene from a painted depiction of the tropics, possibly from one of Captain James Cook’s circumnavigations. “Captain Cook’s Legacy” more directly confronts an official portrait of Cook with the torn-in eyes from what can only be described as the explorer’s anonymous dark Other. The hybrid portrait is a kind of contact zone. “Henson and Peary – Past Entanglements” is a cooler, less volatile twin portrait of disputed discoverer of the North Pole Robert Peary...
Category

2010s Contemporary Ink Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Archival Paper

Ink mixed media for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Ink mixed media available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add mixed media created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, pink, red and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Irena Orlov, Francisco Nicolás, Kory Twaddle, and Olivia Munroe. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Ink mixed media, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available

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