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Abby Wasserman uses a variety of media to create artwork. Below are images of some of her collages, symbolic watercolors, and illustrations, with an introduction written by Abby in each section. For additional information about these pieces please contact Abby.
This page contains thumbnail images of the artworks. Click on any image to view a larger version of the work.
Collages: As a writer I'm interested in how words can be placed together in infinitely diverse ways. One visual equivalent is collage, in which pieces of photographs, magazine pictures, scraps of paper, and found imagery come together to create stylistically unique expressions. Collage is also a wonderful way to approach painting--with the small, fast, intuitive collage leading the way to a more painstaking and deliberate painting. Last year, inspired by a retrospective of the great collagist Romare Beardon, I made a series of collages. The ones below measure between 8 x 11 and 11 x 17 inches, but lately I've been playing with a smaller, more intimate format--3 x 5 inches. I look forward to exhibiting the collages when I reach critical mass--20 or 30 pieces--sometime in the next year. |
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Symbolic Watercolors: In 1997 I began a series of watercolors based on sand trays I had made over the previous nine years. The artistic transformation of the sand tray--a highly symbolic arrangement of miniature objects in a tray of wet or dry sand--was a richly rewarding process. The paintings shown here and others from this series were exhibited in June 2002 at the O'Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, California, and in December 2002 at the The Tamalpais Galleria in Greenbrae, California.
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Illustrations: In 1995, I wrote and Illustrated a book for my son and daughter-in-law as a wedding present. The Marriage of Poire and Poireau featured a Pear (Poire), a Leek (Poireau), and their gray cat Tosca. Readers have commented on the story's humor and charm. Tosca's Paris Adventure picks up where The Marriage of Poire and Poireau leaves off, but also stands alone. Its original drawings, done in pen and ink and watercolor, were exhibited at the Mill Valley Public Library in 2002. A third book, The Island of Poire and Poireau, is in process. Abby hopes to have all the Poire, Poireau and Tosca books available by the end of 2006.
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All text and images © 2005-2008 Abby Wasserman unless otherwise stated |
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