Golden Parachute
Golden Parachute 2009 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset textured white paper Image size 14" x 14" Paper size 23¾" x 22¼" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders makes images of refracted light and subjects just out of reach. She is not afraid of combining beauty with a sense of the ominous that may be just outside the viewer’s frame. Indeed, she celebrates the ambiguous. These long beach scenes and parachutists conjure up dreams of nearly forgotten family holidays and war heroes. Her images come from discarded family photographs and slides that she purchases secondhand. This 2008 group of prints also shares a sensibility with Japanese water colors. They were made with a new process developed by Paulson Press and Magnolia Editions called directto-plate photogravure. Q: Let’s talk about the new images. Where are they coming from? [read [...]
Parachute Class
Parachute Class 2009 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset velvet white paper Image size 20½" x 20½" Paper size 31½" x 30½" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders makes images of refracted light and subjects just out of reach. She is not afraid of combining beauty with a sense of the ominous that may be just outside the viewer’s frame. Indeed, she celebrates the ambiguous. These long beach scenes and parachutists conjure up dreams of nearly forgotten family holidays and war heroes. Her images come from discarded family photographs and slides that she purchases secondhand. This 2008 group of prints also shares a sensibility with Japanese water colors. They were made with a new process developed by Paulson Press and Magnolia Editions called directto-plate photogravure. Q: Let’s talk about the new images. Where are they coming from? [read [...]
Tommy and Stinky
Tommy and Stinky 2009 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset textured white paper Image size 14" x 14" Paper size 23½" x 22" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders makes images of refracted light and subjects just out of reach. She is not afraid of combining beauty with a sense of the ominous that may be just outside the viewer’s frame. Indeed, she celebrates the ambiguous. These long beach scenes and parachutists conjure up dreams of nearly forgotten family holidays and war heroes. Her images come from discarded family photographs and slides that she purchases secondhand. This 2008 group of prints also shares a sensibility with Japanese water colors. They were made with a new process developed by Paulson Press and Magnolia Editions called directto-plate photogravure. Q: Let’s talk about the new images. Where are they coming from? [...]
A Walk With Daddy
A Walk With Daddy 2009 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset textured white paper Image size 14" x 14" Paper size 23½" x 22" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders makes images of refracted light and subjects just out of reach. She is not afraid of combining beauty with a sense of the ominous that may be just outside the viewer’s frame. Indeed, she celebrates the ambiguous. These long beach scenes and parachutists conjure up dreams of nearly forgotten family holidays and war heroes. Her images come from discarded family photographs and slides that she purchases secondhand. This 2008 group of prints also shares a sensibility with Japanese water colors. They were made with a new process developed by Paulson Press and Magnolia Editions called directto-plate photogravure. Q: Let’s talk about the new images. Where are they coming [...]
Tommy and The Ball
Tommy and The Ball 2009 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset velvet white paper Image size 21" x 27" Paper size 30¾" x 35" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders makes images of refracted light and subjects just out of reach. She is not afraid of combining beauty with a sense of the ominous that may be just outside the viewer’s frame. Indeed, she celebrates the ambiguous. These long beach scenes and parachutists conjure up dreams of nearly forgotten family holidays and war heroes. Her images come from discarded family photographs and slides that she purchases secondhand. This 2008 group of prints also shares a sensibility with Japanese water colors. They were made with a new process developed by Paulson Press and Magnolia Editions called directto-plate photogravure. Q: Let’s talk about the new images. Where are they coming [...]
Wader I Blue
Wader I (Blue) 2012 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset white paper Image size 21" x 21" Paper size 31½" x 31½" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders uses discarded slides as her source imagery. They are the evidence of stories, now forgotten, but given another life through her art. The narrative is not prescriptive but wide open. Sometimes she recasts the image as if some of the color had been washed away. Other times she intentionally repeats a flaw because there are treasures to be found in the castoff of the castoff. In the digital age, everyone is a photographer, and the mistakes are deleted before they can even be filed away. In her work, Greenfield-Sanders repurposes the quotidian into something deeply memorable. [read more="Click here to Read More" less="Read Less"] Paulson Bott Press: You [...]
Wader I (Pink)
Wader I (Pink) 2012 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset white paper Image size 21" x 21" Paper size 31½" x 31½" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders uses discarded slides as her source imagery. They are the evidence of stories, now forgotten, but given another life through her art. The narrative is not prescriptive but wide open. Sometimes she recasts the image as if some of the color had been washed away. Other times she intentionally repeats a flaw because there are treasures to be found in the castoff of the castoff. In the digital age, everyone is a photographer, and the mistakes are deleted before they can even be filed away. In her work, Greenfield-Sanders repurposes the quotidian into something deeply memorable. [read more="Click here to Read More" less="Read Less"] Paulson Bott Press: You [...]
Wader II Blue
Wader II (Blue) 2012 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint Somerset white paper Image size 21" x 21" Paper size 31½" x 31½" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Isca Greenfield-Sanders uses discarded slides as her source imagery. They are the evidence of stories, now forgotten, but given another life through her art. The narrative is not prescriptive but wide open. Sometimes she recasts the image as if some of the color had been washed away. Other times she intentionally repeats a flaw because there are treasures to be found in the castoff of the castoff. In the digital age, everyone is a photographer, and the mistakes are deleted before they can even be filed away. In her work, Greenfield-Sanders repurposes the quotidian into something deeply memorable. [read more="Click here to Read More" less="Read Less"] Paulson Bott Press: You [...]