Low Countries
Holland and Belgium: Dorothy Simpson Krause, 2009. Dorothy Krause is a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and museums and featured in numerous current periodicals and books. In her artist's statement she says: "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 art-making is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media in an ongoing dialogue – a visible means of exploring meaning." Krause has created several books over the years that were inspired by her extensive travels. For this stunning unique work, she used a purchased black and red leather journal that is engraved with the book's title. It was collaged with dozens of images and ephemera that she found while traveling. Many of the images are from the celebrated art created by great artists from the two countries, including Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Rubens. In fine condition. Measures 7 x 5 inches. Unpaginated [86 pages]. ARTB/011524. More