Dance in America/ Mardi Gras Still Life #1 upon closer study it reveals

upon closer study it reveals a sublime message of form and content

Representational animal forms along with geometric patterns let the line blur between a representational and abstract work

The printmaking process demanded she move beyond her characteristic restraint

Art for me is an instrument of communication—with myself and with others

Dance in America/ Mardi Gras Still Life #1 upon closer study it revealsFrom the Artist My earliest prints at Brandywine [Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, in 1985] related to festivities such as Carnival (Brazil), Mardis Gras (New Orleans), Jonkonnu (Jamaica), and other Caribbean and American African based festivals, with their spectacular imagery and costumes. As in such festivals, my earlier prints were tinged with Eurocentric pageantry, costumes, and religions, although African ancestral imagery predominated. The