untitled (landscape), Carl Fudge

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Carl Fudge, untitled (landscape)
Carl Fudge, untitled (landscape)
Carl Fudge
untitled (landscape)
2008
Carl Fudge
born 1962
untitled (landscape), 2008
Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Material/technique: laser-etched woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 205 x 445 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 1/16 x 17 1/2 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 375 x 585 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 3/4 x 23 1/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in
Credit line: Gift of the KU Department of Visual Art, Printmaking Area
Accession number: 2010.0115
Not on display
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Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond
Fudge often uses digital technology to create abstract, geometric compositions such as this laser-etched woodcut. The dizzying patterns in the print make spatial relationships unclear and leave the viewer unsure of exactly what they are seeing. Similarly disorienting is the 1918 woodcut print by the British artist Edward Wadsworth upon which Fudge based this work that depicts a ship painted in dazzle camouflage. Developed during World War I, this camouflage made it difficult for enemies to perceive the speed or heading of a ship. Fudge studied at Kansas City Art Institute in 1987 and returned as a KU visiting artist in 2008.
Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond
Carl Fudge often uses digital technology to create abstract, geometric compositions such as this laser-etched woodcut. The dizzying patterns in the print make spatial relationships unclear and leave the viewer unsure of exactly what they are seeing. Similarly disorienting is the subject of a 1918 woodcut print by the British artist Edward Wadsworth, upon which Fudge based this work, that depicts a ship painted in dazzle camouflage. Developed during World War I, this camouflage made it difficult for enemies to perceive the speed or heading of a ship. Fudge studied at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1987 and returned to the area as a KU visiting artist in 2008. Woodcut printmaking is a relief process where the artist removes portions of a wooden block to leave behind raised surfaces that hold ink and create areas of black in the finished print. After the woodblock is covered in ink, the artist works manually or with a press to press a piece of paper against the block to form the impression of the woodcut. To create a color woodcut, the artist carves multiple blocks, one for each color, and presses them to the paper one at a time, often moving from light to dark to layer the colors.

Exhibitions

Brosseau Center for Learning: Six Degrees of Separation: Prints from KU and Beyond
Spencer Museum of Art Interns 2017–2018, curator
2018

Citations

Earle, Susan et al., The Register, VIII, No. 3, Part 2 (Lawrence, Kansas: Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 2011): 208.