Durham Press is pleased to announce the publication of two new screenprints by Leslie Wayne, entitled Design for Life and Dislocation. Both works are printed on uniquely semitransparent Chartham Natural Translucent paper in an edition of 42, measuring 38 x 26 inches.

Both Design for Life and Dislocation were built by isolating the elements that make up Wayne’s paintings. In a complete reversal of process, these visual building blocks have been plucked from their original context, broken down, ‘dislocated’ and digitally photographed in order to reinvent themselves into two-dimension, mimicking her painting’s process through a kind of spontaneous bricolage.

Discreet layers of these fractal-like elements were color separated by hand from the photographs, and then collaged one on top of the other, sometimes completely concealing areas of the first layer. This gives the final image depth and clarity, each element hand drawn and delineated like a decal. These layers of colorful separations sit on top of a soft white background drawn from the combined shapes of the original elements. Wayne deliberately chose transparent inks and printed on vellum to give the picture an otherworldly luminosity not traditionally seen in screen prints.

Design for Life and Dislocation, as well as other works by Leslie Wayne, are available directly through Durham Press. For more information, please contact us at sales@durhampress.com.