Jessica Krichels: Unmoored and Slightly Haywire
October 13 - December 2, 2023
In my daily commute of over eight years I watch electrical structures marching in perfect linear perspective to the horizon, and windswept tumbleweeds clustering by fences. I have always been drawn to these looming structures rising into the sky, their silhouetted shapes framing the clouds with geometric precision. The landscapes they traverse and skies they inhabit are vast and constantly changing.
In my new collection of prints, elements of these images in my mind’s eye have been transformed into another version of the world in which all things are unmoored, out of line, stuttering, repeating, rotating-gone slightly haywire. (I think many of us relate to this feeling with alarming frequency.)
I hope you will see in these pieces that the electrical structure takes on a life of its own-skipping, stuttering, playing. It interacts with other unexpected elements, or finds itself abstracted, or fractured and reassembled. Communication and transmission frequently break down, as It has become freed of its solid mooring, let free to frolic, fall or rise up into the air.
About the techniques: I always have enjoyed playing as I make my prints. I started making the small photopolymer prints in spring of 2022 and liked their moody quirkiness. So over the summer of 2023 I decided to take it further, creating the rest of this series and letting one idea roll naturally into another. I worked back on forth on the prints-adding a new shape to an older print or connecting a color from one piece to another. Some prints started as monotypes, some as screenprints, but all ended up connecting and communicating with each other in some form, color or shape.
Jessica Krichels, 2023
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All prints are sold unframed. If you would like to buy one of these prints framed, please email us and we'll send you a link for the framed price.
In my new collection of prints, elements of these images in my mind’s eye have been transformed into another version of the world in which all things are unmoored, out of line, stuttering, repeating, rotating-gone slightly haywire. (I think many of us relate to this feeling with alarming frequency.)
I hope you will see in these pieces that the electrical structure takes on a life of its own-skipping, stuttering, playing. It interacts with other unexpected elements, or finds itself abstracted, or fractured and reassembled. Communication and transmission frequently break down, as It has become freed of its solid mooring, let free to frolic, fall or rise up into the air.
About the techniques: I always have enjoyed playing as I make my prints. I started making the small photopolymer prints in spring of 2022 and liked their moody quirkiness. So over the summer of 2023 I decided to take it further, creating the rest of this series and letting one idea roll naturally into another. I worked back on forth on the prints-adding a new shape to an older print or connecting a color from one piece to another. Some prints started as monotypes, some as screenprints, but all ended up connecting and communicating with each other in some form, color or shape.
Jessica Krichels, 2023
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All prints are sold unframed. If you would like to buy one of these prints framed, please email us and we'll send you a link for the framed price.
Jessica Krichels
Overhead Transmissions, Morning Monotype and dry point 10" x 10" $250 unframed, $350 framed Buy Here |
Jessica Krichels
Electrified Tumbleweed I Monotype and dry point 5" x 5" $100 unframed, $175 framed Buy Here |
Jessica Krichels
Power Grid, Refracted Monotype and dry point 10" x 10" $250 unframed, $350 framed Buy Here |
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Jessica Krichels
Diffused Refractions I Monotype and dry point 15" x 11" $200 unframed, $275 framed Buy Here Jessica Krichels
Diffused Refractions II Monotype and dry point 15" x 11" $200 unframed, $275 framed Buy Here Jessica Krichels
Diffused Refractions III Monotype and dry point 15" x 11" $200 unframed, $275 framed Buy Here |
Jessica Krichels
Stray Dispatch #17 Screenprint & Letterpress 14" x 11" $250 unframed, $350 framed Buy Here |
Jessica Krichels
Overlap, Sunspots Screenprint and Monoprint 15" x 11" $325 unframed, $400 framed Buy Here |
Jessica Krichels
Stray Dispatch #1 Screenprint & Letterpress 14" x 11" $250 unframed, $350 framed Buy Here |
Jessica Krichels
Disembark
Screenprint, Chine Collé and Monoprint
20" x 16"
$350 unframed, $450 framed
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Disembark
Screenprint, Chine Collé and Monoprint
20" x 16"
$350 unframed, $450 framed
Buy Here
