Barbara Takenaga

Falling (1115)

2016

Color lithograph with hand coloring and pearlescent powder. Ed. 25 The artist describes this project: I like the sense of that in-between time of blue light in this print - betwee...

Color lithograph, Edition 25 Barbara Takenaga is a painter who made her first lithograph at Shark's in the summer of 2002. Her abstract works are full of repeated, obsessive mark ...

Color monotype. Barbara Takenaga's latest prints are a series of Untitled hand colored monotypes, which she describes as follows: Making these monotypes was a wonderful new experience for me. They combine a painterly, abstract background with a graphic structure of hard edged, flat forms. Those dark shapes can be read as either positive/foreground space (body silhouettes or curtains) or as negative space that frames a central image (landscapes, columns, creatures). Similarly, the white lines and dots...

Barbara Takenaga has had fun embellishing the last prints in the editions – Switchback State I and State II from 2011 – with extensive hand coloring. She has inverted and rearranged ...

17-color silkscreen

Ross Bleckner (American, b. 1949), "Selection Sequence", Etching and Aquatint in Colors on Paper, 2002, marked "AP5" lower left, signed in pencil and dated lower right, unframed. Ima...

17-color silkscreen

This 17-color screenprint was created by the artist in 1997. Signed in pencil and numbered, from the edition of 75 measuring.