Claudia Berlinski's Collection
Starlight, Starbright 9 x 6"   $299 Multi-block and reduction relief print		Mischief 9 x 6" $299 Multi-block and reduction relief print		Family Pictures 9 x 6"   $225 Wood block print		Eleanor Rising 9 x 6" - $299 Multi-block relief print
First Born 10 x 6" - $225 Wood block print		Homage to Margaret Atwood 12 x 15" - $275 Composite linoleum		Untitled #1 17 x 11" - $450 Lithograph with mixed media		Untitled #2 17 x 11" - $450 Lithograph with mixed media
Aquarium Series  - Seahorse 5 x 6" - $99 Enhanced digital photo		Aquarium Series - Anemones 5 x 6" - $99 Enhanced digital photo		Aquarium Series - Starfish 5 x 6" - $99 Enhanced digital photo		Aquarium Series - Yellowfish/Coral 5 x 6" - $99 Enhanced digital photo

• Each piece is single-matted and framed with black metal frame and glass
• Block, multi-block and lithos are printed on Rives BFK paper
• The dimensions above are for the image only
• The out dimensions of the frame vary by piece.
• Print sizes are approximate - they may be a fraction of an inch larger than stated

Artist Statement

My recent work consists of prints and mixed media pieces. I have a strong background in photography and often rely on the photographic image to anchor the work, while striving to include the mark of the artist’s hand.

I also have a multilayered agenda when making artwork. There is a great interest in the idea of universality in nature, and how I can weave this into a narrative with my personal feelings, thoughts and experiences.  Sometimes it involves interaction between very specific singular items with purely visual relationships.  At other times the analogy, while still visual, operates on a more conceptual level.  As I look at the world I make connections between objects, environments and encounters.

While I really enjoy the contrast and impact of a print in black and white, the use of color in my work can also be very important.  It’s emotive qualities, as well as it’s formal properties, are very interesting to me.  Often I am drawn to a limited color palette; browns and blues frequently provide me with more neutral warm and cool tones.

Recently I developed a renewed interest in the relief print, drawn now to the physicality and texture of the medium.  Much of my past work has been based in photography, but I’ve always had difficulty reconciling that process with the relief printing process.   By creating stencils from photographically based imagery I am able to reproduce desirable textures and subtleties of lighting by hand that refer back to the photo.

The most current series of prints has more of a nostalgic feeling.  For years I have desired to work family history into the pieces. Using pictures handed down by my mother and snapshots from my own family album I collage new images.  I feel like the understanding of our past can be such a subjective phenomenon.  There are many things about my family, immediate and extended, that I never learned and will never know.  In a way my history is written by my experiences alone - that which I believe to be truth, but don’t really know.  It is also influenced by my emotional connection or disconnection with family members.  Each of these pieces does not contain a specific story.  Rather it embodies the bigger story of the historical and emotional vagueness of my family history, and my longing to understand.