Statement of Intent

When thinking of a theme for this assignment I wanted to explore the idea of manipulating portraits of my family members. Since this is my first time ever studying printmaking, I wanted to use my own photographs to showcase my ideas. I particularly am interested in the format of trace mono printing. I feel like the process is simple but yet quite problematic and also mysterious in a way. I also want to explore the method of repetition throughout my work, I will print the same photo onto the same paper multiple times and change the location I’m going to print it to see the crazy results. I will pick out five photos of my sisters and girl cousins from my own family photo album. I only want to focus on the figurative and I will only be printing with the color black.

Exploring these two methods I’m curious to find out the outcomes of manipulating portraits.

For the research, it is quite difficult for me to find an artist that does trace mono printing as a practice. Therefore, I’m going to talk about an artist whose work I found interest in.

Elizabeth Catlett was an African-American artist who explored themes relating to race and feminism in her range of sculpture, paintings, and prints. Even if her concept might not have connections to my ideas, I would like to use her work as a reference. I found her linocut work very beautiful, the way she used negative and positive space. I would like to try her techniques but with tracing.

ELIZABETH CATLETT

All Work

Portraits of my family

Experimenting with Indian ink and acrylic paints

Tracing using charcoal.

Exploring with Repetition

photoshop – screen printing

Belinda Del Pesco

Originally from New England, Belinda grew up in a family of immigré artists and inventors. Belinda works in the classical tradition of figurative, landscape, and still-life painting. She divides her time between watercolor painting and printmaking and produces a series of intaglio and relief prints in small editions each year.