Edition Announcement #405 - Tamara Thomsen

Through the Roof by Tamara Thomsen
8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200) | 30"x40" ($2000)

Happy Tuesday, collectors. It's Sara, enjoying what just might be the last 24 hours of relatively decent weather in NYC before a heatwave descends upon the city. Last night the air temperature settled at 67, deviating with the breeze plus or minus a few degrees. The sky shifted from cerulean and violet to lavender, and eventually to pink, stalling there for a while until everything was finally rendered a deep purple-blue.

Somewhere in there were moments when the sky was just a few hues shy of the pink that fills Through the Roof, our third edition from Brooklyn-based artist Tamara Thomsen. This print, like her first pair of prints—Stairway and Winter Kitchen—was created from a large-scale watercolor painting, translating to our archival pigment prints seamlessly. Tamara's alternately translucent and opaque washes, which make the spaces she paints resonate, carry over to ink on paper, letting the walls and beams, wood and stone breathe with the stories of their past. As she writes, "nothing is impenetrable."

True to Tamara's interests, architecture takes center stage. Spare and elegant details are ageless and glamorous in jeweled washes of lime, lemon, magenta and turquoise. While Stairway and Winter Kitchen were from Chambers, which memorializes Benedict Arnold's former home (Philadelphia's neoclassical landmark Mount Pleasant Mansion), Through the Roof highlights a section of a 1920s latticework pavilion at the Cranford Rose Garden in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Freed from the vines that bind and bury, the structure itself, instead of the roses, becomes the thing to see. Unlike the flowers, it will stay for seasons. And if you happen to look up and see it there, it will frame the sky as it changes from pink to purple-blue and back again.

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