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LEAVES & VARIATIONS, 24 leaf monoprints

Installation view of LEAVES & VARIATIONS (24 monoprints) and THE TREES.

RE-SURFACING
Prints & Drawings: Tree Works in Four Parts

October 1 - 31, 2014
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 1, 6-8pm

SALENA GALLERY
L.I.U. Brooklyn, 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201
HOURS: Monday - Friday, 9am - 6pm / Saturday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm

In the monoprint series LEAVES AND VARIATIONS, I use leaves as my printing plates.
I apply ink and paint to the leaves and run them through the press to create a print, recording veins, stems and structure of the leaves. I create images where painted and inked elements contrast with the leaf revealing its natural surface.

Florence Neal
2014

"We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours."
— Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Regrets

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?"
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass