Email: terry.urban@verizon.net
Fax: 718-243-2806
Studio: 534 Pacific Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Media: Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media
ARTIST STATEMENT
From childhood I have had a passion for making marks on paper - a new yellow No. 2 pencil was a longed-for special treat! Amusingly, the first of my collected 'art books' were slim black-bound discarded chemistry texts, valued for their page upon page of mysterious symbols.
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more »Email: terry.urban@verizon.net
Fax: 718-243-2806
Studio: 534 Pacific Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Media: Painting, Printmaking, Mixed Media
ARTIST STATEMENT
From childhood I have had a passion for making marks on paper - a new yellow No. 2 pencil was a longed-for special treat! Amusingly, the first of my collected 'art books' were slim black-bound discarded chemistry texts, valued for their page upon page of mysterious symbols.
Years later, time and travel having wrought its marks on me, I began to transfer my own symbols to paper. The process never lost its mystery or joy. Returning to school for a degree in visual arts, I had the pleasure of discovering printmaking through an inspiring and meticulous mentor, Anne Palmer Tuttle, in whose studio I worked for several years, enjoying the collaborative processes unique to the medium. Upon relocating back to Brooklyn in 2001, I acquired my own etching press and devoted space and time to monoprinting in vibrant new surroundings.
Each of my images is a unique oil painting created on a plate (acrylic, zinc - any substance really), which is then laid on the press bed, overlaid with damp paper and run through. As the press transfers the image to the paper, the last touches added become the first marks transferred, lending an intriguing unpredictability to the process. Some images are further embellished with handwork in pastel, graphite, chine colle, transfer, etc. - and some reuse what remains on the plate, thus linking images in a series. Each painting creates a single ('mono-') print, so, although called a 'print', each is an original artwork.
At first glance the resulting artwork may look simple, but the process is deceptively complex. Careful consideration is given to composition, to density, to texture and color, to where the edges of paint will spread, to which lines will not smudge, to what colors will be combined, to which negative space will be left. Always, the mark of the hand is present.
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