Marilyn Frasca

I use a variety of techniques to create textures on an inked plate from which I pull a single print (monotype). First studying the print, then working with the image that comes to me, I am able to sharpen and develop a visual and emotional response to textures and shapes. These seem to clarify and assemble themselves into astonishing pictures of people, places, animals, and events that have no recognizable connection to my life. As I work into the monotype the drawing becomes an act of remembering the expression of a person, their presence. An emotional quality is slowly revealed as I draw out the image. I can feel and see the eyes, the curve of a forehead, a hand holding something.

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I was born in New York City and studied Art at Cooper Union, the San Francisco Art Institute and Bennington College where I received an MA. I made paintings in studios around the country and taught drawing and painting in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire before coming to The Evergreen State College in 1973. My work has been exhibited on both coasts in galleries and museums. At present I am an Emeritus Faculty at Evergreen, I teach occasionally and I have a studio on Olympia's west side.