About The Work
For decades, Ida Applebroog has recorded text—outbursts, observations—as well as personal illustrations in her journals and sketchbooks. This sugar lift aquatint, made in an edition of 25, is the product of a process that involved digitally scanning Applebroog’s drawings from the 1970s, overlapping various scenes, and transferring the composite image to a printing plate. The end effect is blueprint-like and has been printed on Hahnemühle Bugra paper, a material that naturally looks aged and thus reflects the drawings’ history. Regarding the ambiguous subject matter vividly portrayed in these storyboard images, Applebroog says: “They're like Rorschachs. You can show five different people the same thing, and everyone will see something different. You say, ‘drowning.’ She says, ‘saving;’ ‘rescue.’ Everyone sees something different in ink blots.”
About Ida Applebroog
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Sugar lift aquatint
20.62 x 29.00 in
52.4 x 73.7 cm
This work is signed and numbered by the artist.
About The Work
For decades, Ida Applebroog has recorded text—outbursts, observations—as well as personal illustrations in her journals and sketchbooks. This sugar lift aquatint, made in an edition of 25, is the product of a process that involved digitally scanning Applebroog’s drawings from the 1970s, overlapping various scenes, and transferring the composite image to a printing plate. The end effect is blueprint-like and has been printed on Hahnemühle Bugra paper, a material that naturally looks aged and thus reflects the drawings’ history. Regarding the ambiguous subject matter vividly portrayed in these storyboard images, Applebroog says: “They're like Rorschachs. You can show five different people the same thing, and everyone will see something different. You say, ‘drowning.’ She says, ‘saving;’ ‘rescue.’ Everyone sees something different in ink blots.”
About Ida Applebroog
From The Magazine
- Art 101: "What I'd Buy This October '19": Artspace's Advisor Shares the Artworks in Her Cart
- Interviews & Features: Can Abstract Painting Be Political? Curator Alex Gartenfeld on the Secret Power Relations Embedded in Contemporary Canvases
- News & Events: 7 Private Collections in London Worth Leaving Frieze To Visit
- News & Events: Branding Guru Debbie Millman on Being an Artspace Collector (and Having "Flawless Taste")
- News & Events: In Honor of Hillary Clinton, Here Are 10 Women Artists Who Made History
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