About the Artist
MB’s work as a graphic designer informs nearly every aspect of her work as a printmaker. She creates Monoprints using etched copper and plexiglass plates, wooden blocks, handcut stencils, chine collé, and color—an open-ended and flexible kit of parts.
Featured Work
Everything I Ever Wanted To Say Is Here
Figuratively Speaking
Mapping Project
The Way Forward
MB begins by creating background environments on copper plates and wood blocks, filling the plates and blocks with marks deriving from many inspirations—parts of Roman letterforms, pieces of mathematical symbols indicating actions, and notations found on technical and architectural drawings. Some marks suggest map making, others indicate speed, and some represent gestures, movement and measurement.
She responds to the partially completed pictures, pushing the visual relationships, creating contrasts and invoking a conversation among the components. The print is complete when there is a dynamic tension that is, in fact, a balance among all of the components within the boundaries of the print.
