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Artist statement
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"COLOR
moves me to collect, organize and evaluate -
gathering objects that are all of similar hue but of unequal
value -
in fabrics, flowers, jewels and junk.
COLOR drives me to immerse myself in the play of paint
to create explosions of eye-candied paper collages.
My hands speak of COLOR and are stained in rainbows and speckled
prisms.
I find visual and tactile pleasure in layering my favorite materials
between COLOR on varied paper surfaces. Using a series of media
applications, I scrape, scratch and scribble with liquid resists
and waxes, pushing and pressing into the paper surfaces, mono-printing
in metallic inks, spraying and pouring in fluid watercolors.
Layers are masked with paper or plastic shapes, some salted or
peppered with pencil lines, some removed or altered simply with
water.
The result of my sequential media approach showcases textural
surprises and unique COLOR unions - the object is COLOR." |
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Zana Clark is an award winning
multimedia artist specializing in collaged water colors. She
is the designer and distributor of a major collection of original
art stamps. Her batiks, paper weavings, watercolors and stamp
art creations are displayed in numerous galleries and stores
in the Midwest. She has participated in hundreds of juried art
fairs and art rubber stamp conventions throughout the United
States, Canada and Europe.
Throughout her myriad artistic
phases, Zana experimented by combining stamped images with a
variety of art mediums. She enriched her Art Nouveau and Art
Deco design oriented imagery into a unique, original line of
elegant art rubber stamps.
In June of 1996, after 22 years as an art educator, school administrator
and artist, she took the plunge into the business world full
time creating her eponymous rubber art stamp company, Stamp Zia.
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Zana has been featured
on HGTV's Decorating with Style and has been published in numerous
stamping magazines, books and online tutorials.
She has designed and taught weekend "artshops" for
some of the most exclusive stamp, art, and paper stores across
the country and offers individual and small group artist retreats
at her private studio. |
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