Tuxedo Agave II
 
Paper size is 16.5"x14"
Edition size is 15
Medium: Color soft ground etching with aquatint printed on yellow gampi paper chine collé.
Year made 2025
 
Courtney Sennish worked with Lisa Rock as a guest artist to create Rock's first copper plate etching edition. Rock explored soft ground and aquatint etching processes in the studio to develop this 3 plate print with the added light yellow gampi chine collé as the first layer.  Each print is made individually by hand. The print is numbered and signed on the front below the image.
 
Visit Lisa Rock's website:  https://lisa-rock.com/home.html
 
About the Artist:
 
Lisa Rock was born in 1985 in Marlborough, MA, and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Rock has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and the Black Rock Desert NCA (AIR) program. Recent solo exhibitions include In Bloom at Nick Ryan Gallery in Boulder, CO, Overgrowth at Johansson Projects in Oakland, Monterey Museum of Art's Currents Gallery, and Merge Visible at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, CA. Select group shows include Swelter, at Good Mother Gallery in Los Angeles, Summer Intermission, at Soft Times Gallery in San Francisco, and Flowers at Pacific Saw Works in Oakland, CA.
 
Snapshots from her daily walks become source material for her paintings. She searches for overlooked gems in the urban landscape which typically involve the relationship between natural and humanmade forms. The formal issues of color, pattern, and light/shadow are of particular interest to her. The paintings ultimately become a way for her to explore the space between abstraction and representation.