Inside the Studio

original drawings for “Ravel” series

In the early summer 2021 I began a series of drawings based on tiny entanglements, while working as an artist-in-residence at Good Hart Artist Residency.

During this residency, I learned more about the complicated relationships with land, history, and community that is shared collectively and also experienced individually. The “Ravels” series is connected to a series of small sculptures and drawings made at this time and with these ideas in mind.

These loose, handmade and interwoven knots represent the wonderment of being an individual as well as someone connected to larger communities through family, friends and other meaningful associations. Throughout my life as an artist, mother, daughter and teacher, my own connections to others weave far and wide.

In March 2022 I began working with Alyssa Ebinger, lead litho collaborator and printer, at Flatbed’s professional studio.  First, I hand-drew numerous transparencies that would become the multiple lithographic layers of ink that “build” the complex images. 

Over the next seven months, Alyssa and I worked together through careful collaboration to create this trio of multi-layered lithograph prints. Each color is mixed by hand, each layer of printing contains multiple colors, and each print contains multiple layers of luminous ink.

This series debuted at the NYC Satellite Print Fair in October 2022. Details about the editioned triptych, co-published with Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking, can be found on their website at this link.

The process of creating these prints, chronologically, from start to finish, includes a false start with different colors and textures–-before we finessed our system of directional, tonal, layered color shifts in the final prints.