{"id":4831,"date":"2013-05-18T09:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2016-01-04T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T20:10:41","slug":"the-gaze-silkscreen-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-gaze-silkscreen-print.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Gaze”: Silkscreen Print"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The“The Gaze<\/em>” – Black & White serigraphic print. 1980
\n(c) Mark Vallen. Hand pulled by the artist
\nDimensions: 17.5″ x 23″ inches
\nSigned and numbered by the artist
\nEdition of 16<\/p>\n

I created this silkscreen portrait print of a young woman in 1980. During that period I was doing quite a lot of work in serigraphy<\/a>, generally making prints of a political nature<\/a>. As evidenced in the above, I was also interested in creating works of a more personal disposition. Though trained in modern methods of silkscreen printing, I never liked transferring photographic images onto a screen using chemicals and emulsions or even by means of laboriously cutting paper or film stencils. I have always enjoyed a “hands on” approach to serigraphy; drawing directly on the screen so that the gesture of drawing becomes part of the print.<\/p>\n

Because of that preference, I developed a method of drawing directly onto the screen using oil-based lithographer’s pencils and crayons, complemented by painting lithographer’s touche onto the screen with a brush as if I were painting a canvas. Once dried I then flooding the screen with water-based glue. The “stencils” produced bore results akin to lithographic techniques, allowing for great spontaneity, subtle gradations in tone, remarkable textures, and best of all – since one could never fully control the medium – finished prints that were full of surprise and “the artist’s hand”.<\/p>\n

While I did create prints in color, I had, and still have, a preference for prints in black and white, which on the whole I feel are more enigmatic and melancholy – which suits me fine. Some of my favorite silkscreen works from that period of experimentation were created by using the method I explained in the above. Of those prints I especially like The Gaze<\/em>. Similar black and white serigraphic prints I created during those days will be available on this web log in months to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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