Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Russian, 1976
Date finished: 2018
Edition: AP of XX

Recommended by Suzannah (Marketing and Communications Manager):

Ivan Rusachek’s dreamlike etchings deliver the viewer into a liminal world. In “Full Moon - 100 Years of Solitude,” he references the magic realist masterpiece of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The woman depicted in this etching looks right into the viewer, much the way characters from Marquez’s novel see through time and even their own narrative. The symbol of the moon is at once a window into into the world and a shield from it. Rusachek’s interpretation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” exemplify his ability to translate the essence of ephemeral stories that touch the heart of humanity, conveying meaning while retaining complex mystery.

Medium: Drypoint and chine-collé
Dimensions: 30 inches diameter, 42 1/2  x 37 3/4 inches (sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: British/American, 1957
Edition: 3/3 EV
Condition: Extremely faint discoloration on lower left hand edge of paper. Very minor cockling on right and left edge of paper. All far away from the image.

Medium: Drypoint and chine-collé
Dimensions: 30 inches diameter (Image), 42 1/2  x 37 3/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: British/American, 1957
Edition: 3/3 EV
Condition: Extremely faint discoloration on sheet's edge, well away from the image

Medium: Drypoint and chine-collé
Dimensions: 30 inches diameter (Image), 42 1/2  x 37 3/4 inches (sheet)
Artist details: British/American, 1957
Edition: 3/3 EV
Condition: Extremely faint toning on edge of sheet, well away from the image. 

Medium: Drypoint on Gampi
Dimensions: 25 1/2 inches diameter
Artist details: British/American, 1957
Date finished: 2016
Edition: 1/1

After Piranesi was printed during the artist's fellowship residency in Vermont in 2016. Underneath the arches on the south bank of the Thames in London, Robinson's hometown, there is an oversized tile mural which reproduces the original etching of Piranesi’s depiction of the construction of Blackfriars bridge 1766. Interested in how scale can change and distort one's visual relationship to an object or place, (the original etching is 16 x 24 inches), Robinson focused on a section of the enlarged image as a starting point to create an abstracted homage to one of her heroes in print, Piranesi. The resulting print, created in a small varied edition of 4 unique images, is a combination of drypoint and monotype printed on gampi tissue, a material that references both the strength of the subject matter and its fragility. The gampi is then seamed together and backed with sekishu paper for added strength.

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 26 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1966
Date finished: 2008
Edition: of 9

Recommended by Paige: 
(Collections Manager / Marketing Coordinator)

Chris Papa's work is explosive and emotive. It's full of symbols and references that we can almost decipher, but they're stuck on the tip of our tongues. Maybe a tree? Maybe a cloud? Every color looks so unique, but we can't say why. I connect so much to 'Tokyo Tokyo' because this is also how I feel about describing a new place. We describe something new by referencing something we know, but all of our references don't relate, don't capture it right. How do we explain something that comes from somewhere that we don't know?