Kate Krasin: Luminous Prints

Kate Krasin was a master of the silkscreen print. For a single print she might use as many as forty successive screens. all cut by hand. to create a detailed. textured work of art. Drawn to the southwestern landscape as subject again and again. she felt an affinity for her native New Mexico. We happen to live in a landscape that is just fraught with color—red rock. turquoise chamisa. pink and maroon earth—it’s everywhere. so that walking here can make me high. And in New Mexico there’s a definite ancient feeling to the land. a sense of civilizations that have gone before. a pervasive quality that’s sometimes enough to make my hair stand on end. I want that mystery. as much as I can put it in a straight landscape. I try to make pictures of mystery—not just mountains. but rather the feeling. the meaning. of the Earth.