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CAROL WAX Born 1953 in New York City
Carol Wax's medium of choice is the mezzotint. Her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990) is the authoritative work on the subject of that most challenging technique. Wax's education began in music. After graduating with honors from Mount Vernon (New York) High School, Wax entered the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where she majored in flute and was awarded a Bachelor of Music in 1975. During that period of study she went to the International Summer School in Nice, France to study in the Master Class of Jean Pierre Rampal.
Beginning in 1975 Wax studied visual art for two summers at the Lake Placid (New York) School of Art. She entered the program at Pratt Graphic Center in New York City in 1976, where she remained for six years.
Wax's first solo show was at the Wichita Art Museum in Kansas in 1986. Since that time her work has been seen in exhibitions across the United States and in Tokyo, Japan. Museums that have collected her work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan; Kennedy Museum of Art of Ohio University, Athens; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York and many others.
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Sewing Patterns, 1997
intaglio vitreograph and siligraph on Somerset, Edition of 50
image size 24 x 30 inches; paper size 30 x 36 inches $850*
Sewing Patterns is Wax's only foray in the vitreographic medium. This large format work was printed from four glass plates, three of them using the intaglio technique and one using the siligraphic (waterless lithography) technique. The print is the subject of a letter to Littleton Studio's master printer, Judith O'Rourke. After a caution that it is unfair to compare mezzotint with vitreography, Wax wrote that Sewing Patterns "...has a more calligraphic, playful, and almost jaunty feel than it might have had as a mezzotint. This to me is a plus because it plays off the visual pun of the piece which is that the machine is rendered static but the double overlapping shadows evoke the up-down action of the machine...
"In short, the baroque busy-ness of the composition is meant to provide a sense of movement where none exists, and the looser approach to the vitreograph may actually enhance the energy in a way in which a more stately rendered mezzotint might not have."
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