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Photography, Cyanotype on Paper
Size: 20 W x 20 H x 2 D in
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ON EXHIBITION. FRAMED. Available online Nov. 7, 8, 9 during Stephanie Breitbard Fine Arts Trunk Show. 3 days only. Tues, Weds., Thurs, Nov. 7-9. Starts 7:00pm Nov. 7, 2023. https://sbfatrunkshow.com/ NOW FRAMED in 20 x 20 x 2" deep white shadow box frames and sold together as a PAIR, Yellow Summer Clover 1 & 2. $500 includes both unique monotypes framed in white metal gallery frames with a 3-inch mat and shipping. The tiny flowers of clover bring to mind tiny babies and children's love of picking daisies and wildflowers. These were made with the wild clover that pops up regularly in my overgrown garden in California. These is ONE 12 x 12 inch (30 x 30cm) unique monotype. There is another of a similar name "Yellow Summer Clover 2" that can be purchased to form a diptych hung vertically or horizontally. Although this looks like a block print, or screen print, it is a cyanotype, a type of 19th century cameraless photography also known as blueprints or sun prints. Each blade of grass or twig was laid by hand in that exact composition only once. Every one of my botanical cyanotypes is an entirely unique monotype. There is no copper plate; there is no ink or printing press to make more than one copy. This cyanotype started as a blueprint but was "toned" or altered in color through a soaking in sodium carbonate, a natural detergent. The darker the original blue print, the darker the yellow will be upon toning (altering the color). The bleaching process takes an extra hour, and there is always a possibility of destroying the original blue with splotches if small spots in the original resist changing color from blue to yellow. Thus the cost is a bit higher than for my blue cyanotypes.
Photography:Cyanotype on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:20 W x 20 H x 2 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Clients include: Timothée Chalamet, Starbucks, Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville), Jumaira Resort, Lux Habitat Sotheby’s International (Dubai), Wyndham Worldmark Hotels, Kimpton Hotel Monaco (Salt Lake City), Mazars Accounting, Limelight Hotel Mammoth (California), MD Anderson Hospital (Houston), Oncology Center, Houston Methodist Hospital. For a complete list of my corporate clients, visit the "About" page of my website www.christineso.gallery/ To see videos of my artistic process, visit me on instagram at @christinesogallery I live in the woods in northern California looking out across the San Francisco Bay towards the hills of Marin, San Francisco and Angel Island. The distant blue hills of my “Faraway Hills” series are ever-present fixtures in my real life. Down below is the bay and above is an endless web of tree branches. Their silhouettes have etched themselves into my memory. My paintings and prints are always nature-inspired and nearly always monochromatic. Having spent a decade as a printmaker making woodcuts, linocuts, etchings, aquatints and monotypes, my mind works in monochrome. I focus on a single color, composition, positive and negative space, pattern, lines and shape. I currently work in two mediums, acrylic painting and cyanotypes, a form of camera-less photography. Cyanotypes are a 19th century form of lensless photography also known as photograms, blueprints and sun prints. They resemble block prints or etchings but use no ink nor printing press. Light “etches” the image on paper I had painted with light-sensitive chemicals. MY NEWEST SERIES OF ABSTRACT CYANOTYPES: My technique is a form of experimental photography, much like the action painters Morris Louis, who poured his veil paintings, or Jackson Pollock who dripped and drizzled his. My abstract cyanotypes are luminous like watercolor paintings but are actually photographs. Each is a multiple-exposure lensless photograph make through deliberate movements of the light-sensitive paper during exposure to light. Different sections of the paper were exposed to light for a longer or shorter time, yielding multiple shades of blue. Each abstract cyanotype is entirely unique. These same lines, shapes and shades of blue cannot be recreated as the exposure of the paper was heavily manipulated by me during each printing. A traditional single-exposure cyanotype yields a white silhouette against a dark blue background.
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