"Figure with Hat and Gold", mixed media with paper, 30 x 22", 2025
A dark figure wearing a blue hat with an indeterminate number of eyes looks over the shoulder of a stalwart, central Chagallian figure. Over her other shoulder a cactus appears. In the initial stages of the print, the cactus had a skull-like appearance and the blue-hatted figure was a black spectral being. Stein uses the joyfulness of color to mask a darker side of humanity and the world. In the final stage of the work, Stein caused the pigment to drip beyond the white borders of the print adding a engaging dimension to the work.
A dark figure wearing a blue hat with an indeterminate number of eyes looks over the shoulder of a stalwart, central Chagallian figure. Over her other shoulder a cactus appears. In the initial stages of the print, the cactus had a skull-like appearance and the blue-hatted figure was a black spectral being. Stein uses the joyfulness of color to mask a darker side of humanity and the world. In the final stage of the work, Stein caused the pigment to drip beyond the white borders of the print adding a engaging dimension to the work.
A dark figure wearing a blue hat with an indeterminate number of eyes looks over the shoulder of a stalwart, central Chagallian figure. Over her other shoulder a cactus appears. In the initial stages of the print, the cactus had a skull-like appearance and the blue-hatted figure was a black spectral being. Stein uses the joyfulness of color to mask a darker side of humanity and the world. In the final stage of the work, Stein caused the pigment to drip beyond the white borders of the print adding a engaging dimension to the work.