I promised famosity14 a hundred years ago that I would draw Wendywolf and post it, but college had gotten in the way  Now that I’ve finally have some relax time, I finally got it done and added Lil Wendywolf too 

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Bio: Wendy Wolf creates obsessive repetitive artwork inspired by language and leaves. She was born in 1974 in New York State, received her BFA in Printmaking from Alfred University, and moved to Philadelphia, PA in 2003 to complete her MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She currently lives in Newton, MA and continues to maintain a studio in Philadelphia. Utilizing processes she developed for herself in printmaking, Wendy has focused on painting and works from paper since 2005. She has exhibited her work nationally, notably at the International Print Center NY, the Sam Quinn Gallery in Philadelphia, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, the Independence Seaport Museum, and a solo show at the George School in Newtown, PA. Wendy has completed artists residencies at Taliesin West, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, and Beechwood Arts. She is currently represented by FitzRoy Knox Gallery in NY and LA and will be featured in Scope NY and Miami in 2013.

Artist Statement

Living within urban and suburban communities, constructed landscapes have been my primary experience with nature. I create a record of a fleeting moment; reproducing leaves that have been altered by weather or bugs, and preserve them through reproduction. Using yupo, an industrial plastic paper, as my base material

I neutralize nature by reducing it to formal aspects of shapes while creating leaves that will not decompose.

Through the use of line, I manufacture tenuous visual and physical connections. Cotton threads that will weaken and disintegrate with time create the structure for my reproduced leaves to exist. My intent is to establish a tenuous connection with the natural world by bringing my manufactured leaves as a mimesis of nature in dialogue with the landscapes of human construct.

I produce all of my work within a restrained structure of repeated marks and repeated process. Everything is obsessively repeated—mark making, cutting, assembling, and movement. Through the physical labor, the act of doing is of equal importance to the visual representation of the work.

The series Natural Repetition began during a residency at Taliesin West (Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture) in Scottsdale, AZ. The residency gave me the opportunity to create an outdoor installation piece. While exploring the grounds I found an orchid tree whose leaves looked very similar to the repeated marks I had been working with in my painting and cutpaper series. I processed the leaves by tracing and reproducing them in paper as I had been doing with the marks in my paintings. As soon as that first strand of leaves was installed in the courtyard, it completely changed the way people interacted with the space.

Instead of walking through with their heads bent down, they stopped and looked up—seeing this beautiful tree above them—and spent time exploring and making personal associations with my paper leaves. I was thrilled to watch hundreds of people walk through the space (on daily tours) with expressions of delight.