Street Gallery 231 E Washington St SYR/NY

Audio: Click Here for Audio Description by Karin Bruckner

MIDOMA Gallery is proud to present its 5th Street Gallery location in Downtown Syracuse. This location will be featuring mini art and small works by NY artists (curation by Midoma Co-Founder Marianna Ranieri-Schwarzer).

The 1st cycle will feature 4 “Small Worlds” by NYC print artist Karin Bruckner.

”The mini works on view in the windows belong to an ongoing series of miniature prints following the same format of 3 inch by 3 inch hand pulled prints on 10 inch by 8 inch BFK Rives Printmaking Paper.

 The small size square imprint generously floated on a standard size rectangular paper gives each image dignity and the importance of a Kabinettstückchen, a kind of chamber piece. They form a series of etudes helping me to practice my artistic scales.  

 This practice launched me into a series of investigations that led to the concept of creating a body of work that I dubbed “125 for 125”.  

Each piece is a handmade original work of art. I hand pull all papers on an etching press first.  I sometimes assemble and reassemble different papers, hand finish them with other media from paint to metal leaf. They are fused by means of Chine Collé, a printmaking technique used to adhere and print in  one press run..  Often I add a layer of embossing or drypoint onto the carrier paper, running it through the press one final time to give a three-dimensional character to the piece.

 For me, as an artist, the small, intimate format provides a kind of lab environment in which I feel free to experiment with color, shapes and techniques and find paths into further exploration and larger formats.

In trying times, when I feel less expansive, I often quite literally draw comfort from working in the small size. Those small portholes into a miniverse provide the pictorial equivalent of baby steps for myself and the viewer, who hopefully finds similar comfort and joy in taking them in.”