Janis Provisor
Long Fall, 1991
Color woodcut printed on silk mouned on rag paper
Image Size: 19-1/2 x 13-7/8"
Paper Size: 32-1/2 x 21-7/8"
Edition 70
Printer: Ji Qiz Heng, woodblocks carved by Jian Ming, and transformed by Liu Wei Fan at the Duo Yun Xuan Studio, Shanghi.
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Janis Provisor traveled to The People’s Republic of China in May of 1989 to work with printers in Suzhou and Shanghai where she completed three new woodblock prints, her first project with Crown Point Press.
Known for her large, multi-paneled paintings, Provisor continues her exploration of disjunctive narrations and psychological and spiritual responses to the landscape in her prints.
Provisor responds more to Chinese landscape painting where objects are equally important, than to hierarchically organized Western landscape painting. Her prints—one vertical and two smaller multi-paneled pieces—are lyrical, abstract landscapes.
For Provisor, the works reflect moments or sensations experienced in the landscape, and it is the resonance of the objects in the environment that she attempts to capture.
In Long Fall, described by the artist as both a landscape and a still-life, two flower-like forms rise out of bubbling water, vertical red strokes emphasizing the upward as well as downward motion in the print.
The water consists of black bubbles and quick swirling strokes of bright blue, and the silk shimmers beneath the ink.