Guntars Sietins

Origami (Origami is the art of paper folding)

2003

This black and white mezzotint is in an edition of 30. It is titled, numbered #1/30 and signed in pencil. Holly Downing is a painter and printmaker who has been making mezzotint e...

The Oliver which is in several museum collections and has won numerous awards) is being used to promote the show, Printed Ladies, opening March 1st at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and will be reproduced on the cover of the upcoming revised second edition of Carol's book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique which is due out in early 2024 Thomas Oliver invented the first double-sided lateral top stroke machine. This was No. 9 introduced in 1916. With light focused on the machine it suggested the logo of the Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes series - giving off an anima-like aura. The print was issued in an edition of 75. 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...

This image is an artist proof and is annotated VIII / VIII The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...

12 copper mezzotints printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 12. This is impression #5 The 12 complementary mezzotints are included in boxed portfolio Graduated from the Natio...

Carol Wax's "Vertical Zydeco" reflects a fascination with ways to suggest sound and movement through rhythmic patterns of light and shadow. It is an edition of 75. The image is real...

This image is from an edition of 50. The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars...

Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 (33/50) Image: 8 5/8 x 10 11/16"

Fragment. 2001. Etching, aquatint and mezzotint. 11 1/2 x 10 3/4 (sheet 20 1/2 x 15). Edition 30, #7. A fine impression printed on the full sheet with deckle edges. Presentation prin...

Signed and numbered from the edition of 20. trompe l'oeil illusion - the abstract image of cardboard. Born in Memphis, Tennessee to a French mother and Belgian father, Anne Heyvaert...

Wonderful and evocative abstracted dry point etching of the sea, a maddox. random fishing buoys and crab claw titled "Back to the Sea by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947). Presented in new custom cut mat. Unframed. Image size: 9"H x 15"W Titled "Back to the Sea" along the bottom edge. Signed and dated "T. Uchida '89" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new custom-cut mat with foam core backing. Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...

Wonderful and evocative abstracted dry point etching of dragon fly and barbed wire titled "Rebirth" by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947). Presented in new custom cut mat. Unframed. Image size: 9"H x 15"W Titled "Unremembered Dream" along the bottom edge. Signed and dated "T. Uchida '89" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new custom-cut mat with foam core backing. Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...

Abstracted dry point etching by Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, 20th Century). Two walnuts sit in an abstracted space, with ropes in the background. Titled "II Walnuts" along the bottom edge. Signed and dated "T. Uchida - 89" in the lower right corner. Presented in a new grey mat with foam core backing. Tomoya Uchida (Japanese, b. 1947) was born in Tsuyama City in the Okayama prefecture in Japan. He graduated from Doshisha University, Kyoto, in 1970, and went on to become the artist-in-residence at the KALA Institute of Prints in Berkeley, CA, in 1989. He then moved to Australia, where he studied under Prof. Jorg Schmeisser...