Etching and aquatint with woodcutEdition of 25
The exploration of seasons in nature is an important theme within Michael Mazur’s oeuvre, and he visits it across a
wide range of media. Each of the three prints in the Gail’s Islands series showcases Mazur’s mastery of color and painterly surfaces, while revealing his extraordinary ability to construct a distinct and ever-changing world that blurs abstraction and realism. His abstract landscapes are the product of no single place or time; they are fusions of the external world — as it exists and as it is remembered by the artist — and the artist’s internal vision. The islands depicted in this series of print, named after Mazur’s wife, Gail — are based off the actual Wakeby Island in Cape Cod that appears in earlier works by the artist.
Strongly influenced by Chinese landscape traditions, in which there are multiple horizon lines, Mazur made this series of mostly abstracted landscape compositions with complex multi-layered etchings and aquatints combined with woodcut, printed with painterly drips and beautiful color transparencies. Mazur used some of the same blocks and etching plates in making this series, resulting in greatly different effects in each work, depending on his use of overall color, and modulating tones in each. This series reflects Mazur’s shift to abstracted views of nature and a highly personal and abstracted vision of the world in the 1990s onward.
Strongly influenced by Chinese landscape traditions, in which there are multiple horizon lines, Mazur made this series of mostly abstracted landscape compositions with complex multi-layered etchings and aquatints combined with woodcut, printed with painterly drips and beautiful color transparencies. Mazur used some of the same blocks and etching plates in making this series, resulting in greatly different effects in each work, depending on his use of overall color, and modulating tones in each. This series reflects Mazur’s shift to abstracted views of nature and a highly personal and abstracted vision of the world in the 1990s onward.