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Polly Apfelbaum | Heart and Soul – There Are Many Hearts

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2020
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    POLLY APFELBAUM | HEART AND SOUL – THERE ARE MANY HEARTS

  • Aurora McFee | There Are Many Hearts and Target Practice monoprinting session
  • Polly Apfelbaum and Durham Press are pleased to announce the completion of a portfolio of nine prints titled Heart and...

    Heart and Soul  | Portfolio of 9 prints

     

    Polly Apfelbaum and Durham Press are pleased to announce the completion of a portfolio of nine prints titled Heart and Soul. The woodblock prints on handmade Japanese paper feature a heart motif and measure 16 ½ inches squared in five colors, each in an edition of thirty.

     

    Heart and Soul was developed in tandem with a series of monoprints, There Are Many Hearts, of the same composition in a variety of colors and sizes. These works draw from Pennsylvania German folk art and twentieth-century modernism, presenting a repeating yet playful pattern that enabled Apfelbaum to explore new chromatic combinations.

     

    The folk art of Pennsylvania that once decorated Apfelbaum's childhood home and has long fascinated her has now served as the impetus for her most recent prints. Specifically, Apfelbaum's new works have been inspired by the Pennsylvania German who have often sewn heart shapes into quilts and included them on hand-painted "barn stars" that adorn the sides of many of the region's agricultural buildings, as well as incorporating them on Fraktur - illuminated calligraphic drawings used to document occasions such as births, baptisms, and new homes.

     

    At the Durham Press Studio, Apfelbaum first used the featured heart shape to create monoprints, conceiving an interlocking composition that recalls the designs of Alexander Girard and other modernists. Featuring square formats with 14, 25, or 79 inch edges, the three sizes range from intimate to all-embracing, with various scales and palettes imbuing each with a singular temperament – an attribute affirmed by the series title, There Are Many Hearts, which references a valentine Apfelbaum’s great aunt made for her grandmother. “There are many hearts,” it reads. “Broken, yellow, sad, beware, black, one pure gold.”

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    THERE ARE MANY HEARTS | MONOPRINTS

                More There Are Many Hearts monoprints are available here.

    Polly Apfelbaum, There Are Many Hearts (Baby Heart) 2, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum, There Are Many Hearts (Baby Heart) 10, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum  There Are Many Hearts (Baby Heart) 1, 2020  Woodblock Monoprint Fuji DHM-11 Kozo Misumi 536gsm  25 x 25 inches (63.5 x 63.5 cm) (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum, There Are Many Hearts (14 x 14) 5, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum, There Are Many Hearts (14 x 14) 17, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum, There Are Many Hearts (14 x 14) 24, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum, There Are Many Hearts (14 x 14) 28, 2020 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum, There Are Many Hearts (Baby Heart) 2, 2020
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    These monoprints quickly gave rise to Heart and Soul. Compared to many other of Apfelbaum’s collaborations with Durham Press, often comprised of dozens and sometimes hundreds of separately inked blocks, these prints were created through a relatively pared-down process. As a result, the artist chose more experimental palettes – rather than focusing on primary and secondary hues, she mixed colors into colors, yielding unique shades that she then combined on paper in various compositions. Some, whether by uniting one chromatic family or pairing complimentary colors, are easy to love at first sight. Others challenge the eye, revealing conflict and tension – but perhaps leading to a greater love in time.

  • Heart and Soul (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum and Ann Marshall | Hearts and Targets monoprinting session (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Inking, There Are Many Hearts monoprinting session (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Breyden Mann and Ethan Waits | Inking during There Are Many Hearts monoprinting session (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Polly Apfelbaum | There Are Many Hearts monoprints (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Aurora McFee and Pippa Russell | Inking during There are Many Hearts monoprinting session (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Heart and Soul

  • Heart and Soul

    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Blue Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Blue), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Brown Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Brown), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Gray Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Gray), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Green Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Green), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Orange Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Orange), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Pink Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Pink), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Purple Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Purple), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Red Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Red), 2020
    • Polly Apfelbaum Heart & Soul Yellow Print Edition
      Polly Apfelbaum, Heart and Soul (Yellow), 2020
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