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"Frosted Valley" by Katherine Hagstrum
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"Frosted Valley" framed Original Monotype (See definition of Monotype at bottom of page) Hand Signed by the artist Framed Size: 22" x 28" Image Size: 17" x 22" Condition is Great/Excellent
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KATHERINE HAGSTRUM Katherine Hagstrum lives and works in Bisbee, Arizona. She is currently a professor of Humanities at Cochise Community College where she teaches the history of the humanities in Western culture. In 2002 she and her husband, Alvin Sandler, established The Art Entrée Foundation, for the encouragement of young artists and musicians and the development of an audience for the arts.
Ms. Hagstrum was most active as an artist between 1977 and 1990, during which time she produced a large body of monotypes and showed them throughout the United States in major galleries, such as Vorpal Galleries in New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Laguna Beach; C.G. Rein Galleries in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and Minnesota . Since 1990, when she began teaching full-time, she has produced monotypes for commissions only. Hagstrum chose to work with monotypes, she explains, "because it is a spontaneous medium, it allows for the exploration of many facets of a theme, and for the development of variations on a subject." She creates her images by placing various objects, papers, and masks on a zinc plate and applying oil-based inks with rollers, brushes, fingers - any way that allows her to capture the texture and tones she wants. Hagstrum uses three colors that are closely related to the primaries and that are mixed to different viscosities, allowing her to control where the colors will fall. When the image is completed, she transfers it from the plate to a sheet of paper by means of an etching press. Because there is no permanent marking on the plate, no two prints are identical. "Monotype allows me to work spontaneously and freely," states Hagstrum. "I explore an idea much the way a composer explores a musical theme with variations. My improvisations are a direct response to the materials I work with - the shapes and textures of those materials evoke shapes and textures from a fantasy world that I then seek to develop into an image. The final result is a fusion of imagination and materials." In addition to her many exhibits, Hagstrum's monotypes are displayed in such national corporate collections as Citicorp, IBM Corporation, Price Waterhouse, and the Bank of Tokyo Trust, to name just a few. Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together, usually using a printing-press. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e.g. creating lights from a field of opaque color. Unlike monoprinting, monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype, because most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing. Although subsequent reprintings are sometimes possible, they differ greatly from the first print and are generally considered inferior. A second print from the original plate is called a "ghost print" or "cognate". Stencils, watercolor, solvents, brushes, and other tools are often used to embellish a monotype print. Monotypes are often spontaneously executed and with no previous sketch. | 
