Kate Krasin: Luminous Prints - Pack of 1

Kate Krasin (American, 1943–2010) was a master of the silkscreen print. Her highly refined work proved that silkscreen, or serigraphy, was not just a medium for photo-transfer T-shirts or simple graphic designs in flat colors. For a single print she might use as many as forty successive screens, all cut by hand, to create a detailed, textured work of art. Krasin studied the work of Japanese woodblock print artists and fellow Santa Fe woodcut artist Gustave Baumann. She, however, preferred the "dance" of silkscreen: the process of drawing the sketches, cutting the stencils, formulating the colors, printing by hand. She diluted inks and layered colors to create transparent, ethereal beauty. Drawn to the southwestern landscape as subject again and again, she felt an affinity for her native New Mexico. "We happen to live in a landscape that is just fraught with color—red rock, turquoise chamisa, pink and maroon earth—it's everywhere, so that walking here can make me high. And in New Mexico there's a definite ancient feeling to the land, a sense of civilizations that have gone before, a pervasive quality that's sometimes enough to make my hair stand on end. I want that mystery, as much as I can put it in a straight landscape. I try to make pictures of mystery—not just mountains, but rather the feeling, the meaning, of the Earth." Kate Krasin: Luminous Prints includes more than sixty of the artist's prints in full color. Author Carmen Vendelin brings forth the voices of Krasin's friends; her former husband, artist Peter W. Rogers; and David Scheinbaum and Janet Russek, who so appreciated her abilities and aesthetics that they represented her in their photography gallery. - INDIVIDUAL ITEM RRP £18.99