Paintings and Monotypes by Dasha Alexandrov

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Featuring work by Dasha Alexandrov, international printmaker, draftsman, and painter.

Moment

$1,300.00

It could be that the childhood  memories of my family’s frequent excursions into the woods shaped my character and my subconscious, it is also somewhat of a metaphor for a personal journey, but the images of figures walking in the woods surface now and then and demand to be made. In monotype medium creating the woods can either drive you mad with difficulty or can be really fun. I wanted a mix of branches and more indistinct shapes, lots of light and movement, which would create a feeling of a fleeting moment, something you can not hold on to. My People are standing among all that motion, caught up in it, looking at the observer. For just this one moment.

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It could be that the childhood  memories of my family’s frequent excursions into the woods shaped my character and my subconscious, it is also somewhat of a metaphor for a personal journey, but the images of figures walking in the woods surface now and then and demand to be made. In monotype medium creating the woods can either drive you mad with difficulty or can be really fun. I wanted a mix of branches and more indistinct shapes, lots of light and movement, which would create a feeling of a fleeting moment, something you can not hold on to. My People are standing among all that motion, caught up in it, looking at the observer. For just this one moment.

Monotype is a printmaking method, where an image is created (essentially painted on the plexiglass plate) to be then printed on the piece of paper – only once. Unlike etching or woodcuts or lithography there are no multiples, monotype is a unique image.

There are many ways to make a monotype and many different styles. I specialize in the more traditional way – creating light by wiping the ink off the plate with rags, brushes and Q-tips.
Every medium has its own pressures, limitations and strengths. The strength of monotypes is in creating a sense of light, an atmosphere, gestural qualities, but it does not accommodate precise details easily. You have a limited time to create your piece, the thin layer of printmaking ink dries within a couple of hours; at the end of your working session, you either print it or lose it, you cannot come back to it.

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Weight .68 lbs
Dimensions 50.8 × 2.54 × 66.04 in

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