Circling Nine Heavens
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Title
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Circling Nine Heavens
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Creator
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Marilyn Frasca
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Artist ID
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165
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Date of Work
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2004
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Description
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Person in an egg with a bird of prey behind them.
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Category of Media
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Painting/drawing/mixed media on paper
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Media
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mixed media
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Mark/Inscription
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LL: Circling Nine Heavens LR: M Frasca 2004
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Accession Number
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2008.005
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Location
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display: Library Building, 2nd floor, library proper, near emergency exit
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Date Acquired
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2008
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Dimensions of Work
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9.5" x 9.5"
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Frame Dimensions
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23" x 19"
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Frame Type
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wood
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Donor or Seller
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Curtz, Thad
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Donor ID
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166
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Artist Bio
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Marilyn Frasca was born in New York City and studied art at Cooper Union, the San Francisco Art Institute and Bennington College where she received an MA. She made paintings in studios around the country and taught drawing and painting in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire before coming to The Evergreen State College in 1973. Her work has been exhibited on both coasts in galleries and museums. At present she is a Faculty Emerita at Evergreen, where she teaches occasionally and has a small printmaking studio in Olympia, Washington.
Source: http://www.marilynfrasca.com/bio.htm
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Abstract
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Using the word monotype makes sense to me because I begin with a single print made from an inked plate. I use a variety of techniques to create textures which I later study to see what is there. Working with the image that comes to me I am able to sharpen and develop a visual and emotional response to the textures and shapes of the print which seem to clarify and assemble themselves into astonishing pictures of people, places and events that have no recognizable connection to my life. As I work it is as if I remember this person and her or his expression. It is an emotional quality that is slowly revealed as I draw out the image. I can feel and see the eyes, the curve of a forehead, a hand holding something.
The presence of these figures exists in an ether of memory beyond my own existence, extending to a past and to a future, giving clear directions through textures of just how and what I should draw. Usually I feel an immediate compassion for the figure that shows itself. Often genderless, out of time and looking intently at me or somewhere else or at someone else. The look is occasionally pleading, knowledgeable, and communicates an awareness of my presence and scrutiny of its physical being and its relation to myself and the world in which I live. In this way the drawings assert emotions in their own terms and offer assorted facts that visually describe answers to questions I am slowly seeing and learning to ask.
Source: http://www.marilynfrasca.com/process.htm
