Laura Sanders, "Owl Habitat"

Laura Sanders

Owl Habitat

8 color screenprint on Coventry Rag

Price range: $500 through $855

Owl Habitat is composed of bright swirling color surrounding an isolated subject. The green background is comprised of a skillful illusion – recreated brushstrokes made by the process of screenprinting.

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Year
2013
Edition of
50
Dimensions
24 x 18 inches
Authentication

Signed, numbered, dated, and titled by the artist. All Haystack editions come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

“When I conceived the image for this print I was thinking about our human altered environment and how some elements of nature must now adapt to live within.” 

– Laura Sanders

About the Artwork

Owl Habitat is composed of bright swirling color surrounding an isolated subject. The green background is comprised of a skillful illusion – recreated brushstrokes made by the process of screenprinting.

The edition was printed in collaboration with the artist and Forth Estate at Axelle Editions (a renowned printmaking studio active from 2005 – 2015). Each print was created by silkscreen printing (also known as serigraphy). This method requires stenciling techniques wherein ink is pressed onto paper through deliberately exposed areas of a mesh screen one color at a time.

Curator's Note

In Laura Sanders’ print, Owl Habitat, the artist is making a humorous environmental comment, inviting viewers to be in on a cleverly constructed joke. The owl in the image is printed on a graphic t-shirt worn by a young woman. The barb of the title is inflected further on the viewer upon noticing that the subject is drinking from a single-use plastic bottle. All around her float painterly strokes of acid green not found in nature, perhaps a reference to the man-made toxicity of our consumer culture.

About the Artist

Laura Sanders (b.1966, Detroit, MI) is a figurative painter whose work explores feminism and environmentalism. Her artworks portray a realistic, at times photographic, depiction of figures and landscapes, yet still retain the physicality and texture of paint.

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