Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh

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Dorothy Krause
Village
24 inches x 24 inches
Digital mixed media
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a painter by training and collage-maker by nature who began
my experimental printmaking with reprographic machines. Since
being introduced to computers in the late 1960s while working on
my doctorate at Pennsylvania State University, I have combined traditional
and digital media. My work includes large-scale mixed-media
pieces, artist books, and book-like objects that bridge between
these two forms. It embeds archetypal symbols and fragments of
image and text in multiple layers of texture and meaning. It combines
the humblest of materials (plaster, tar, wax and pigment) with the
latest in technology to evoke the past and herald the future. My artmaking
is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media
in an ongoing dialogue, a visible means of exploring meaning.
Village and Margoa are components of Passages, a series that includes
doors, windows, tunnels, openings, corridors. The term also
encompasses movement from one place to another, the transition
from one condition or state to another, and the right or permission
to come and go freely. We speak of passing time, safe passage,
and “passing over” or dying. These images reference those varied
meanings as well the barriers that prevent us from coming and going
at will.
Electronic Art and Animation Catalog Art Gallery Artworks
CONTACT
Dorothy Krause
Viewpoint Studio
32 Nathaniel Way
P. O. Box 421
Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts 02051
USA
Margoa
24 inches x 24 inches
Digital mixed media
DotKrause@DotKrause.com
www.DotKrause.com
TECHNICAl STATEMENT
Village and Margoa are mixed media assemblages. The digital files
were printed onto clear film, which were used as templates for building
assemblages. In Village, for example, a small piece of aluminum
(positioned to correspond to a window in the image file), was placed
under a recycled brass grid which was nailed to wood and washed
with plaster. The assemblage was used as the substrate onto which
the image file was printed using a Durst UV-cured flatbed printer.
With UV-curing flatbed printers, the ability to print on virtually any
dimensional surface without pre-coating offers an enormous range
of possibilities. Prints are equally good on surfaces with combinations
of porous and nonporous or matte and shiny materials, and
UV-cured inks sit on the surface of the print with the physicality of
paint or traditional printmaking inks.