Tuesday’s print: As you may have gathered already, the black and white “classic prints” (etchings, engravings, lithographs, by artists such as Martin Lewis and Stow Wengenroth) are my favorites. Recently, I discovered a contemporary etcher named DeAnn Prosia, whose richly textured prints have a very similar feel to Wengenroth’s. She is a New Yorker, and many of her etchings portray quintessential New York scenes–very similar to Martin Lewis, but set in the now (instead of Lewis’s work which was largely portraying his time–1910s to 1960s).
This piece is called Under the Elevated. There are numerous places in Manhattan and the 3 boroughs on the subway, where scenes like this could be found. I look at this print and it makes me remember what it feels like to live in the city. I lived in Astoria at the end of the R subway line, which was elevated there, and the neighborhood there felt similar to this.
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