There's something about finding ridiculously large images of an artist stashed somewhere online. Traywick Contemporary has been generous enough to provide enormous scans of Stas Orlovski's etchings, at resolutions almost approaching the real things - You could just about print them on cartridge and pass them off as a bought one...
Not that you'd want to. Here's something I didn't write about Stas:
Romantic imagery of the decayed garden – broken statuary, overgrown vegetation among flowers, moths and song birds – form the visual literature of Los Angeles-based artist Stas Orlovski. The artist pries at the question of why we are attracted to images that evoke memory, loss, and nostalgia in these new works that combine printing, handwork and collage. Undeterred by sentimentality, Orlovski pushes the edge further by orienting his compositions under faded night skies and oversized moons. Here the artist embraces rather then skirts the nostalgic quality inherent in the works from which he draws inspiration: mid-century Russian children’s storybooks, Indian miniatures, 19th-century Japanese woodcuts, and Victorian botanical drawings. The results are a suite of monotypes that invite the viewer into a place both familiar and innocent, a place dreamed about and remembered.
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