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Katja
Oxman creates etchings that are filled with references to her personal
history and the history of art itself. The artist, having grown up in
post-war Germany, fills her prints with postcards of famous paintings by
earlier artists and by doing so she refers to the past, memory and
travel. Her flattened compositions recall Japanese woodcuts and the
Oriental carpets that the objects are scattered on heighten this sense.
Katja Oxman studied printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts and at the Royal College of Art in London. Throughout her
career, Oxman has focused on one of the most difficult, exacting and
arduous etching processes known as aquatint. All of the myriad colors
and tones in Oxman’s prints are produced using only the three primary
colors: red, yellow and blue. Her aquatints are now in the collection of
a number of important museum collections, including the Smithsonian
Museum of Art in Washington, D.C. |
