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Style: Contemporary
Medium: Monotype
One Cat D
Located in Bozeman, MT
Born in 1937 in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder knew what he must do at an early age. As a high school student at Pierre, South Dakota, his teacher was Oscar Howe...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Spring Clover I (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 14 x 24 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This long narrow blue and white monotype was made by carefully arranging hundreds of individual flowers of fresh-cut Dutch clover growing wild. This unique print is the same size as ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Nude with tube. Contemporary Figurative Nude Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a woman with a tube. The composition is monochromatic in blue. The paper/cardboard...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Monica Litho (Good Witch)
Located in Columbia, MO
Benjamin Parks is a Kansas City based artist whose primary focus is painting large-scale portraits and figurative work, though he also produces illustrations, interactive installatio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Lithograph, Monotype

Silver Eucalyptus Diptych (two 24 x 18" cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
The pale gray-green of this pair of monotypes calls to mind the celadon glaze of Japanese pottery. Each was made using freshly-cut branches from eucalyptus trees which grow in the w...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Four Agapanthus Flowers ( 30 x 22 inch hand-printed botanical cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
Agapanthus are also known as "The Lily of the Nile". The crisp silhouettes of the giant agapanthus blooms were hand-printed using living fresh cut agapanthus flowers from the artist'...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Bay Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)
Located in Oakland, CA
These are two separate 40 x 26 inch cyanotypes (unique monotypes) made using the same tree branches flipped over facing the opposite direction, the result being a symmetrical mirror ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Photogram, Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper

Calm Before - Text Based Contemporary Abstraction, Red and Black
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Calm Before," is a text based contemporary abstraction by artist Vivian Liddell. This piece is built with washes of ink layered up leaving detailed forms through the piece inviting viewers to take it in up close. Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. Mixing craft with one of the most respected and oldest forms of fine art, painting, really encourages the viewer to view the two on the same playing field. The idea of craft is settled into these gestural, layered works, constantly critiquing contemporary culture. This piece is currently unframed, but framing options are available. For more works follow our storefront at Gallery 1202. "As a painter, I often work on large, raw canvas. My abstract paintings merge formal painting and “bad” craft to challenge the high-low separation of materials (and related gender hierarchies) that have traditionally been present in the art world. The monotypes are like a calligraphic practice. I use them as a warm up to allow me to feel confident with a gesture before committing it to a larger scale. I work in layers, often sewing or incorporating fabric into the finished piece, and incorporate chance into each stage of my process. The text/titles often come from song lyrics, local radio commercials, and news headlines. I edit these snippets and piece them together to reflect my interpretation of current politics and social norms, especially as they relate to gender. Liddell often walks the line between contemporary art and craft. Working to bring materials that are traditionally labeled as "craft" and lesser into the contemporary conversation. Mixing craft with one of the most respected and oldest forms of fine art, painting, really encourages the viewer to view the two on the same playing field. The idea of craft is settled into these gestural, layered works, constantly critiquing contemporary culture. Vivian Liddell is an interdisciplinary artist in Athens, Georgia who works with painting, fiber and craft techniques, sculpture, printmaking, photography, animation and sound. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she received her BFA from the University of Georgia and her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Liddell’s work has been featured in solo and curated exhibitions throughout the United States, including at the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn. In 2019 she had two solo exhibitions of her “Men” series at the Versa Gallery in Chattanooga and 621 Gallery in Tallahassee, with a review of the Versa exhibition in BURNAWAY and was recently picked by Berlin curator Tina Sauerlaender as a featured artist on Foundwork. Liddell hosts a podcast (Peachy Keen) as an extension of her art practice, interviewing women on art and the South. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of North Georgia...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Spray Paint, Ink, Monotype

Large Monotype Monoprint Print Scenic Lake Landscape Susan Hall Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Monotype Monoprint Hand signed and numbered 1/1 Lake landscape Sheet: 37.5" X 27" Image: 29.5" X 19.75" Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bays and ocean, rolling grass lands and forests. It is inhabited by a diversity of wildlife, including over 450 species of birds, mountains lions, deer, bobcats, foxes, and elk. Ms. Hall who is a native of this area returned after spending twenty years in New York City. In her book, “Painting Point Reyes”, Hall says, “Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. Point Reyes has been my life and when I haven’t lived here, it has been an underground stream that spoke to me in dreams and visions.” While living and painting in New York City, Ms. Hall exhibited her work widely in museums and galleries. Among them are the Whitney Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles. In addition, her work has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including in 2020 Bud Shark's Ink: The California Crew at BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado USA representing the panoply of aesthetics, cultural backgrounds, viewpoints, and talent held within the bounty of art “made in California.” This remarkable grouping of artists, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest, Amy Ellingson, Susan Hall, Don Ed Hardy, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Hung Liu, Kara Maria, Rex Ray, Alison Saar, Italo Scanga, and William T. Wiley. Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum Yonkers 2021 A group of women artists working in oil painting and drawing, lithograph prints and photograph, collage and sculpture. Many icons of feminist art history. Judy Chicago, Judy Giera, Marisol, and Shanequa Benitez, Ann McCoy, Anna Walinska, Audrey Flack, Barbara Morgan, Berenice Abbott, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannelore Baron, Harriet, Judy Chicago, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, Mary Frank, Nancy Graves, Susan Hall, Yvonne Thomas...
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20th Century Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Nude - XXI Century, Figurative Monotype Print, Monochromatic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Siergiej Timochow, a Belorussian artist, born in 1960. He studied at an art school in Minsk in 1979 before continuing to study at the Fine Arts Academy in Belarus. His acrylic and ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Underwater Cave - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Blue Green Yellow, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on a scroll of lightweight Japanese paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Wild Mugwort (hand-printed botanical cyanotype, 24 x 12 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is the silhouette of wild mugwort (artemisia) or chrysanthemum weed which grows in the woods in northern California. It is a fragrant herb that smells similar to sage. Though t...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Contemporary Abstract Landscape Monotype Painting Sarah Amos
By Sarah Amos
Located in Surfside, FL
Sarah Amos(Contemporary Australian/American) Untitled Monotype, 1995 Monotype or painting on paper 12 x 9 inches on a 22.25 x 15 inches sheet size, Hand signed and dated lower right Provenance: Garner Tullis Workshop This appears as a abstract expressionist landscape or seacape. A lovely, moody, piece Sarah Amos, originally from Australia, lives in Vermont, and maintains an active International and National exhibition schedule. Sarah left Australia, after receiving a BFA in Printmaking from RMIT, to attend the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in New Mexico. In 1992 she became a certified Tamarind Master Printer in Lithography working with Joyce Kozloff and Barton Lidice Benes . In 1998 Sarah became the Master Printer for the Vermont Studio Center Press until 2008 and during this time she also received an MFA from the University of Northern Vermont. Sarah has been an Adjunct Professor at Dartmouth, Williams and Bennington Colleges teaching Printmaking and Drawing since 2007. She has led workshops on monoprint collagraph printing techniques with Joel Janowitz...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Little Sister - Mixed Media Abstraction with Yellow and Green
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Little Sister," is a contemporary mixed media abstraction by artist Vivian Liddell. In this piece she works with mixed media and text to create her comp...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Spray Paint, Monotype, Textile

Blue Shadow, landscape, glue, gray, orange, pastel, seascape, nature, triptych
Located in New York, NY
Monotype on three sheets of paper Unframed Rachel Burgess is a visual artist based in New York. Originally from Boston, she received a B.A. in Literature from Yale University and an...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Gathered (floral, still life, watercolor, bright colors, flowers)
Located in New York, NY
Monotype 32 x 25 inches framed
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Gray and Purple, landscape monotype
Located in New York, NY
Monotype print.
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Monotype

What Fascism Means/ Ass of Steel - Abstract Sewn Fabric Contemporary Mixed Media
Located in Gilroy, CA
“What Fascism Means/Ass of Steel,” is a mixed media work on paper, with ink and textiles. This piece is mixes gestural abstraction and text to create the composition. Liddell often w...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Fabric, Ink

Perfect Circle Clouds, White and Blue, Handmade Unique Monotype Cyanotype, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This cyanotype monotype features a constellation of overlapping circular forms that seem to hover like celestial bodies or drifting clouds. The soft, mottled texture within each whit...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

Dogwood1, mixed media work on paper, blue flower
Located in New York, NY
Leaf collagraph with embossing on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Approx. image size: 3" x 3" Paper size: 10" x 8" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the work ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Wet Leaves, landscape monotype
Located in New York, NY
Monotype print.
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Paper, Monotype

Autumn Garden (17 x 11 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Dogwood2, mixed media work on paper, navy blue flower
Located in New York, NY
Leaf collagraph with embossing on white BFK Rives Printmaking Paper. Approx. image size: 3" x 3" Paper size: 10" x 8" At the core of the dialogue between the artist and the work ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Haiti II
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype. Rafael Ferrer depicts the intense life of the Caribbean in his paintings and prints. With hot colors, deep shadows and mysterious relationships among his figures, Fe...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Nude with paradise apples. Contemporary Nude Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is in blue and dark brown. Monotype on textured p...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude with paradise apples. Contemporary Nude Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is monochromatic in dark brown. Monotype on textu...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude with a birdie. Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is monochromatic in blue with black accents. Mono...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude with a bird. Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is monochromatic in blue with black accents. Mono...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude with a bird. Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is monochromatic in maroon. Monotype on textured ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude with birds. Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is in blue with details in black. Monotype on tex...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude with double bass. Contemporary Figurative Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is monochromatic in brown. Monotype on textured p...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude with piano. Contemporary Figurative Nude Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is in blue and black. Monotype on textured paper....
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude in green. Contemporary Figurative Nude Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is in green and dark brown. Monotype on textured ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Nude. Contemporary Figurative Nude Monotype Print, European artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative nude monotype print by Belarussian artist, Siergiej Timochow. Print depicts a sitting woman. The composition is monochromatic in grayish brown. Monotype on te...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Cardboard, Monotype

Rose Mist by Katherine Warinner Relief Monotype on Paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Katherine’s delicate and evocative monotypes portray nature’s flora in all its glory, from the most organic trees and branches to airily etched florals. They are the result of a perfect (and complicated!) marriage of technical expertise and Katherine’s innate ability to create these light-filled, contemplative pieces. "These works are one of a kind. All are hybrids of different techniques, tied together by being created on an etching press...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Ex Uno Plures Eight - Geological Neon Yellow Magenta Pink Monotype, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
Laura Moriarty's Ex Uno Plures 8 is a multicolored encaustic monotype on kozo paper. Layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting laye...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Abstract Modernist Colorful Bold Monoprint Monotype Painting Print Pierre Obando
Located in Surfside, FL
Pierre Andre Obando creates process oriented abstract paintings. He was born in Belize City, Belize and grew up in the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Miami, Fl and Jackson, MS. Pierre Obando completed his MFA at Hunter College and completed his undergraduate studies at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fl. His work was featured in the Queens International Biennial in 2004, and 2006 at the Queens Museum of Art. His work has been in group exhibitions at Angela Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY; Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY; MACO Mexico Art Fair in Mexico City; Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA; The Painting Center, New York, NY; and Dean Project, New York, NY. In 2008, he had a solo exhibition at Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY and in 2009, at project space show at Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY. He has participated in the Atlantic Center for the Arts Artists-in-Residence Program. In the fall of 2012, he participated in the group show Caribe Now, at the Nathan Cumming Foundation, which was organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. Contemporary Pattern and Decoration piece, The original movement was championed by the gallery owner Holly Solomon. The P&D movement wanted to revive an interest in minor forms such as patterning which at that point was equated with triviality. The prevailing negative view of decoration was one not generally shared by non-Western cultures, The Pattern and Decoration movement was influenced by sources outside of what was considered to be fine art. Blurring the line between art and design, many P&D works mimic patterns like those on wallpapers, printed fabrics, and quilts. There is a close connection between the Pattern and Decoration movement and the Feminist art movement. The P&D movement arose in opposition to the Minimalist and Conceptualist movements. Mary Grigoriadis, Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Miriam Schapiro, Robert Zakanitch were early proponents of this style. The artist lives and works in New York City. Education: 2001 MFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY 2000 Study Abroad, Slade School, UCL, London, United Kingdom 1997 BFA, Painting, New World School of The Arts, Miami, FL Solo Exhibitions: 2015 ‘Like New’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2009 ‘Nowhere’, Rush Arts, New York, NY 2008 ‘Noise’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY Group Exhibitions: 2018 ‘Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration’, El Museo at Hostos, Bronx, NY Including artists: Abelardo Cruz Santiago Pierre Obando Antonio Pulgarín Keisha Scarville Mickalene Thomas and others. 2017 Locust Projects Contemporary in Miami benefit auction including artists Dara Friedman, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Larry Bell, and more 2017 ‘Browsing Chamber’, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2015 ‘#BemisPainters, 1982-2015’, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE 2015 ‘Spat Spell’, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY 2013 ‘Un-Natural Constellations’, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY 2012 ‘Caribe Now’, Nathan Cummings Foundation/El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY 2012 ‘Lucid Fence’, Dean Project, New York, NY 2012 ‘Abstract Gambol’, Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY 2012 ‘Reenacting Sense’, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY 2010 ‘Continuing Color Abstraction’, The Painting Center, New York, NY 2009 ‘West/East’, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA 2009 ‘Alternative Abstraction’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Including works by Stephen Antonakos, Warren Isensee, Gary Lang, Melissa Meyer and Katherine Sehr...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monoprint, Monotype

Elderflower Diptych (Two 12 x 12 inch original cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
Though these pale mint green botanical monotypes resemble woodcuts or linocuts they are actually cyanotypes, a form of kind of photography dating back to the 1800s, but the artist al...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Stormy - Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Blue Green, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on a scroll of lightweight Japanese paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

Opus 22, Ukiyo-e monotype landscape print, 2011
Located in New York, NY
Keiji Shinohara was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. After 10 years as an apprentice to the renowned Keiichiro Uesugi in Kyoto, he became a Master Printmaker and moved to the United ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Venice Seascape Triptych, Blue Lido Island Reflections, Contemporary Cyanotype
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Lithograph, Monotype, Paper

"India, " Abstract Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"India" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. Here, Summer's abstract language for landscape imagery is taken to its most extreme: The image offers a view of a highly stylized waterfall, with red water falling down behind green foliage below. A hint of light blue at the lower left suggests a continuation of the water's flow. Above, purples and yellows mist upward from the power of the water. The playfulness of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Summers' signature can be found in pencil at the bottom of the rightmost blue form, with the title and edition at the bottom of the leftmost blue form. A copy of this print can be found in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 37.25 x 24.88 inches, artwork 48.5 x 35.5 inches, frame Numbered 44 from the edition of 75 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MoMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Woodcut

Sunset with Reflection, Blue Tones Unique Monotype Cyanotype, Desert Modernism
Located in Barcelona, ES
Sunset with Reflection is a unique cyanotype monotype on watercolor paper, blending the timeless beauty of ocean horizos with the clean, geometric serenity inspired by Desert Moderni...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monotype

"Diocletian s Retreat, " Woodcut and Monotype signed by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Diocletian's Retreat" is a woodcut and monotype signed by Carol Summers. The image combines landscape and architecture, in this case a classical struc...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Woodcut

Stubborn Truth - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype Red, 2025
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight kozo paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

"Green Apples III"
Located in Lyons, CO
Kushner completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Betty Woodman ceramic vessels. These prints...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Me + Paul We Are the Trolls, famous signed monoprint from Douglas Cramer estate
Located in New York, NY
Tracey Emin Me + Paul We Are the Trolls, 1995 Monoprint on paper Signed, titled and dated in graphite pencil on the front Unique Frame included: bears original label from Jay Jopling, the founder of White Cube Gallery, Emin's longtime gallery Measurements: Framed (original vintage frame included) 15.5 inches vertical by 20.5 by .75 inches Work 11.5 inches vertical by 16.5 inches horizontal Provenance: The Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, USA Hubert S. Bush Collection USA (with label) Jay Jopling, London (with label) - Jay Jopling is the legendary founder of White Cube Gallery This early (1995) monoprint is part of Tracey Emin's "troll" series, depicting her younger self and her (now estranged) twin brother Paul as children with sometimes murderous thoughts. It was acquired from the collection of Douglas Cramer, (August 22, 1931 – June 4, 2021) a top American television producer who worked for Paramount Television and Spelling Television, producing series such as Mission: Impossible, The Brady Bunch, and Dynasty - who amassed one of the most distinguished collections of contemporary art in the United States. A 2011 Daily Mail article entitled "If you Think Tracey Emin is Wild, say Hello to her Terrible Twin" describes a different monotype, also from the troll series, that Tracey gave to her brother Paul, which he promptly and publicly sold on a TV show, much to her chagrin. The article reads: "Yet there is one person central to Tracey's life who has managed to stay largely shielded from the public eye: her twin brother Paul.. He leads a life that could hardly be more different to Tracey's. She is worth millions, is a household name, owns an estate in the South of France and has A-list friends such as Kate Moss, Orlando...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype, Monoprint

Mercado
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype. Rafael Ferrer depicts the intense life of the Caribbean in his paintings and prints. With hot colors, deep shadows and mysterious relationships among his figures, Fe...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

"Green Beans I"
Located in Lyons, CO
Kushner completed a series of monotypes, many with collaged decorative papers. He worked from still-lives of flowers, fruits, pitchers and Betty Woodman ceramic vessels. These prints...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Monotype

Cove Variation Twelve, Lavender Trees, Water, Pale Yellow Sky Blue Forest
Located in Kent, CT
This woodcut print on paper evokes the peacefulness of looking across a stream towards a thicket of trees in a forest in shades of light yellow, very pale sky gray blue and soft lave...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Monotype, Woodcut

Pink Lake, square abstract monoprint
Located in New York, NY
The coastal landscapes of Maine have been the main source of inspiration for Rachel Burgess for many years. Burgess’s ongoing fascination with how land meets water— along rivers, lak...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Monoprint, Monotype

BREAK IN THE HORIZON
Located in New York, NY
VALERIE HIRD BREAK IN THE HORIZON, 2019 oil, monotypes, gesso, Arches paper, silver leaf, silver amulet 23 1/2 x 22 in. 59.7 x 55.9 cm. mythology
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Silver

Gray Iris IV (cyanotype, 24 x 18 inches)
Located in Oakland, CA
This gray and white Japanese-inspired monotype was made using freshly-cut long-stemmed wild iris (iris douglasiana) that grow along the California coast. Their impossibly long stems ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Autumn Garden II (10 x 10 inch cyanotype painting)
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a combination of painting and photography, the antique cyanotype process. The silhouette of the plant was first drawn, then painted not with ink or paint, but with light-sens...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram

Phyllotaxis 43 by Katherine Warinner Relief Monotype on Paper
Located in Atlanta, GA
Katherine’s delicate and evocative monotypes portray nature’s flora in all its glory, from the most organic trees and branches to airily etched florals. They are the result of a per...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monotype

Jamie Nares, Original flower monotype (unique, hand signed) Framed, de-accession
Located in New York, NY
James Nares Untitled flower monotype, 1988 Monotype on hand made paper Pencil signed and dated by James Nares on the lower right front Frame included: floated in the original wood fr...
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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Handmade Paper, Monotype

J. T. Skirt
Located in Burlingame, CA
Monotype ev edition 2/7 with hand coloring. The plate (image) is 15 x 14 inches and the overall paper size is 29 1/2 x 22 inches. The artist spent 12 years creating monotype ev's, an...
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1990s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Gouache, Mixed Media, Monotype, Pastel

A Mineral Exoskeleton - Contemporary Abstract Geology Encaustic Monotype, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary encaustic monotype, layers of pigmented beeswax on lightweight paper create an undulating composition suggesting layers of the earth's crust and geological forma...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Encaustic, Archival Paper, Monotype

"Sunny Side Down", Surreal, Abstract, Landscape, Mixed Media Collage, 2024
Located in Franklin, MA
Monica DeSalvo’s “Sunny Side Down” is a surreal mixed media collage over an asymmetrical digital inkjet photo montage on Yupo paper with blue, green, teal, white, and purple. The abs...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Glue, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Color, Digital, Monop...

"Up Sun Down", Surreal, Abstract, Landscape, Desert, Mixed Media Collage, 2024
Located in Franklin, MA
Monica DeSalvo’s “Up-sun-down” is a surreal mixed media collage over a digital inkjet photo montage printed on Yupo paper. The abstract montage of blue, tan, sage green, yellow, and ...
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2010s Contemporary Art by Medium: Monotype

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Paper, Glue, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Monoprint, Monotype, ...

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