Pieced Together
Fort Lauderdale, FL: Dorothy Simpson Krause, 2016. A unique book structure . 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."
A variant edition of 2 copies. This interesting piece by Krause pays homage to quilts. It is a concertina book with quilt collages and pierced pages with the message: "Scraps, pieced together, the whole greater than the sum of the parts." The front cover is a metal tile with a collaged image of a quilt pasted down to the middle. It is held closed by red ribbon ties. In fine condition. Measures 6 x 36 inches open. ARTB/011724. Fine.
Item #37039
Price: $800.00