#postdigitalprintmaker

Simona Prives’ Timewaves is a mixed media animation combining specific video, multiple forms of printmaking, watercolor, collage and drawing In collaboration with Ross Williams, sound designer.

Simona Prives is an artist, designer and educator. Simona makes work that is about locating ourselves in the built and natural environments at this particular moment in history. She creates collages that focus on the process of decomposition and reconstruction, the dialectic of growth and decay, and that examine our complex relationship between the organic and the man-made.

To make each collage, she draws, disassembles and reconfigures maps, geological patterns and industrial imagery to breed new worlds that are at once familiar and abstract. Every artwork combines multiple forms of printmaking, using fragments of screen-prints, monotype and found material to assemble the composition.

https://www.simonaprives.com

Please enjoy these wonderful examples of the post digital printmaking concept by a fellow artist member of the Manhattan Graphics Center.

Substrata1. (“Architecture of Air” digital image for photo litho/chine colle collage)

Substrata 2. (“Berlin Air: Kreuzberg Skylight” digital image for metallic paper output)

With Photoshop I strip images I’ve “appropriated” to simplified elements that are collaged in multiple layers. I think of these as substrata—like a rich surface on which to begin. Sometimes I fold, cut, tape, paint or draw on them… Then rescan or rephotograph them only to begin the process again. Analog to digital and back again. From the layers comes the film separations to make silkscreen and photo litho prints. This aspect of the process can have a multitude of elements. And within each element there could be multiple passes of ink to get the right “underpaint” to support a surface color effect or texture.- JJudge

Contact:

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