Frederick Mershimer

Lafitte's Blacksmith House (a bar named for a pirate on Bourbon St, New Orleans)

2005

Born in Charleroi, Belgium, Christine Ravaux is an artist who mirrors her surroundings in the mezzotints she creates. She has portrayed the black hills that dot the landscape of the ...

This impression is #22 Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...

John Baldessari Rollercoaster 1989-90 Color aquatint and photogravure on Somerset paper 38 3/4 x 67 1/4 in. P.P. (Printer's Proof) Pencil signed and numbered

This print is part of a small series of works to investigate the use of layering, colour blends and texture in screen print to elicit an ethereal, eerie and potentially dizzying sens...