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Woodcuts blocks only — hold the prints
Canadian artist Lisa Brown loves the woodcut print medium. But hold the printmaking process. Brown makes the woodcut blocks only.
Using 100-year-old salvaged Douglas fir, Brown creates Pop Art-inspired images. Her latest works celebrate icons of American popular music.
A solo exhibit of her work opens Saturday at Yard Dog Gallery, 1710 S. Congress Ave. The opening is 7 to 9 p.m.
Brown, who will be at Saturday’s opening, says of her practice:
“I have been making woodcuts for over 20 years since I saw the woodcuts from the printmaking department at art college. I was in the drawing department and am self-taught at woodcut. I don’t make prints, but prefer to paint the woodcut blocks themselves.”
“I am interested in expressing appearance, character, warmth and feeling with the greatest economy of line.”
“I collect photographic references that I think will translate beautifully into woodcut and there are so many of them I never use the same reference twice. The finished woodcut blocks are three times removed from the photographic reference in that I first sketch the image, then I carve the drawing, then paint the carving.”
Image: ‘Honey, Why Are You So Sweet (Dolly Parton)’
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