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Christine SoNight Laurel Diptych (Hand-printed cyanotype, 40 x 52 inches combined)2024
2024
About the Item
Unframed.
Two 40h x 26w inch monotypes. Signed on the back by the artist.
Images of the prints framed are just to give a sense of how much wall they would cover once framed with a gap between them. The width of each 26" wide print would increase to at least 30 inches once framed, so the span is over 60 inches (5 feet or 180cm) when including a gap between the two panels.
These are two separate cyanotypes (unique monotypes) made using different tree branches, unlike the other same sized diptych by this artist, "Bay laurel DIptych" which uses the same branches flipped in a mirror image.
Every botanical cyanotype made by this artist is unique, made using freshly-cut plants and tree branches laid in that exact composition on the hand-coated light-sensitive paper only once then exposed to sunlight. These are branches of a native California Bay Laurel tree which grows all over the hills east of San Francisco.
On heavy 100% cotton Arches watercolor paper.
Deckled edges which look nice if float framed without a mat.
SHIPPING: Free shipping to United States, Europe, UK in a wide tube. Both monotypes will ship rolled together in one 6-inch wide (15cm) heavy cardboard tube.
- Creator:Christine So (1970, American)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 52 in (132.08 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:noPrice: $1,950
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- Gallery Location:Oakland, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2737214402122
Christine So is an American printmaker, photographer and painter living in the hills across the bay from her hometown, San Francisco. She is best known for her blue and white cyanotype photographs of forests shrouded in fog. The Foggy Woods series is ever-growing as the artist continually hikes these hills which are often foggy at dawn. She explores radically different ways to use this antique photographic medium with and without out a camera. At times her blue prints look like screen prints. At others like abstract watercolors. Besides printing photographs from negatives, botanicals using entire branches, altering the chemical recipe to obtain novel colors, and creating abstract cyanotypes of deliberate patterns, she also paints images using the light-sensitive solution and prints a pattern within them. These last works she calls “cyanotype paintings”. The multiple-day process depends on being able to see while painting in a dark room so as to not expose the light-sensitive painted silhouette before it’s time. She named her series of botanical paintings which have a fine blue and white pattern “Delft Garden” after the Dutch painted porcelain. 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.
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