NY Series (Etchings) Light Green
Marina Adams
American, born 1960
2022
An aquatint print that uses a single luminous green wash to shape a soft, curving negative space, aiming to make color feel like a tactile, bodily presence.
You first notice a bright, almost wet-looking green band that flows in rounded, brushlike strokes around a white, boat-shaped void, the edges feathering so the color reads like a gentle gesture rather than a hard outline.
By translating painterly, color-field gestures into aquatint, the work links printmaking to contemporary explorations of scale, negative space, and the material qualities of ink, showing how prints can carry the immediacy of painting.
Medium
Aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 12 × 12" (30.5 × 30.5 cm); sheet: 16 × 16" (40.6 × 40.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Accession
12.2023
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