A combination of painting, printing, and
collage on silk wrapped canvases, Silva's several signature approaches are heightened by the inherent luster of the fiber.
Laura Sharp Wilson, 1996, (2014), acrylic and graphite with
collage on silk paper mounted on wood, 32 x 24 inches (courtesy McKenzie Fine Art)
In the Desert: Mooning / / collagraph on muslin from two plates, handprinted collage on muslin and inkjet
collage on silk, mounted on canvas and wood / / 69 1/2 x 43 3/4 / / edition of 10 / / made in collaboration with Island Press / / 2016
Not exact matches
His
collages, executed in ink
on silk and burnished paper, layer mostly abstract and roughly rectilinear elements with an occasional geometric shape or scrap of figuration.
Momentarily abandoning the stupefying rhetoric of immediacy that characterized his earlier photographic appropriations, he is now reinscribing his work in the well - lit field of modern paradigms: by referencing the monochrome as he did in his previous «joke» paintings, by reintroducing
collage and
silk - screen superimpositions, and above all by coating some of his appropriations with a thin layer of white paint that is simultaneously
on top of and underneath the imagery.
Acrylic
on canvas, acrylic and
collage on canvas, digital prints
on silk and paper, artist's and duct tape, dimensions variable.
This particular example of Flag, which is relatively small at approximately 11 x 17 inches and done in encaustic
on silk and
collaged onto canvas, carries a price estimate of $ 15 million to $ 20 million.
In this series, I began to experiment with printing images of natural scenes, plants, and other items
on to cotton and
silk that I then sewed, staged, and re-photographed to create digital photographic
collages or sewed the printed fabric into soft sculptures.
[3] Bearden's
collage techniques changed over the years and in later pieces, he would use blown - up photostat photographic images,
silk - screened, colored paper, and billboard pieces to create large
collages on canvas and fiberboard.
Each
collage is done
on thirty - ply paper and a layer of
silk.