About The Work
Polly Apfelbaum is best known for her brilliantly hued abstract works created using plasticine, clay, prints, Thistextiles, and found objects. Her work is steeped in references to feminism, women’s work, craft, and fashion, and in particular the cultural associations in pattern and design. Inspired by the expressive qualities of color, Apfelbaum has recently created a series of unique woodblock monoprints entitled Atomic Mystic Portraits and Atomic Mystic Puzzles. Each print is made from many different sets of blocks, individually inked in hundreds of colors, and carefully composed to create vibrant tessellations printed on heavyweight handmade paper. Apfelbaum uses the split fountain or “rainbow roll” technique, in which multiple colors are partially mixed to achieve a continuous gradient effect in many of the blocks.
Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery
About Polly Apfelbaum
From The Magazine
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Unique monoprint woodblock on Hiromi Handmade paper
25.00 x 16.50 in
63.5 x 41.9 cm
This work is signed and dated lower right in print, publisher stamp lower left.
About The Work
Polly Apfelbaum is best known for her brilliantly hued abstract works created using plasticine, clay, prints, Thistextiles, and found objects. Her work is steeped in references to feminism, women’s work, craft, and fashion, and in particular the cultural associations in pattern and design. Inspired by the expressive qualities of color, Apfelbaum has recently created a series of unique woodblock monoprints entitled Atomic Mystic Portraits and Atomic Mystic Puzzles. Each print is made from many different sets of blocks, individually inked in hundreds of colors, and carefully composed to create vibrant tessellations printed on heavyweight handmade paper. Apfelbaum uses the split fountain or “rainbow roll” technique, in which multiple colors are partially mixed to achieve a continuous gradient effect in many of the blocks.
Courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery
About Polly Apfelbaum
From The Magazine
- Art 101: The 'Vitamin T' List: 113 Artists on the Cutting-Edge of Textile Art
- News & Events: 5 Reasons to Collect Polly Apfelbaum's Enamel-on-Metal Tile
- News & Events: Collect the Artists Featured at Basel—For A Fraction of the Price
- Art 101: Color Palettes by Decade: 10 Artworks to Give Your Home a Blast from the Past
- Interviews & Features: Team Gallery's José Freire on the Messy Secrets of His Avant-Garde, Against-the-Odds Success
- This work is framed. Frame measurements are 25.50" x 17.50" x 1.75".
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