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Sean Caulfield

Sean Caulfield and Akiko Taniguchi have each produced a body of related prints that look to classical mythology as motivation in order to explore themes of transformation, transience and regeneration. Investigating a common visual language the artists have developed compositions that utilize biomorphic and organic shapes that reference the natural world. Their images often move between abstraction and representation creating a shifting quality in which narratives and associations to the real world are implied, but are left in an open-ended and unresolved state.

Although Caulfield and Taniguchi have worked together closely, each artist has approached their work from a slightly different perspective. Caulfield has developed a suite of prints that, in addition to classical mythology and literature, have drawn on the history of scientific and medical illustration for motivation. From this research Caulfield has created imagined landscapes populated by enigmatic objects that refer to both mechanistic and naturalistic forms in order to explore themes of mutation, metamorphosis and biology/technology dichotomies. Although the work looks to the past for inspiration, its merging of mechanistic and organic languages is intended to point viewers towards a contemporary context in which advancements in technology are rapidly changing our relationship to the natural world, biology, and our own bodies. Read more from exhibition statement...

Caufield, Professor of Printmaking at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, has developed a poetic, visual language from a variety of elements. He draws on industrial objects found in the rural Midwest of Canada and the U.S., the landscapes from antique Asian and European artworks, our contemporary pop culture, and various literary and musical sources. From these diverse inspirations and using a variety of print processes, Caufield creates haunting, abstract, dreamlike landscapes that reflect our historic and shifting contemporary attitudes towards the landscape.

• Related Artist: Akiko Taniguchi

RELATED MEZZOTINT LINKS:
Contemporary Mezzotint Exhibition - June 2011
Daniel Carrillo, Sean Caulfield, Konstantin Chmutin, Stuart Duffin, James Groleau, Yozo Hamaguchi, Katsunori Hamanishi, Seiichi Hiroshima, Peter Jogo, Robert Kipniss, Martin Langford, Carrie Lingscheit, Frederick Mershimer, Julie Niskanen, Atsuo Sakazume, Takahiro Sato, Laurent Schkolnyk, Tim Smith, Kouki Tsuritani, Mikio Watanabe, Carol Wax, Art Werger, Cleo Wilkinson

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  Reflecting Light, 2011
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18.
  5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches.
  $125
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  Spere of Fire, 2011
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18.
  9 x 12 inches.
  $300
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  Two Doubts, 2011
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18.
  10 x 10 inches.
  $300
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  Eunoe (Waiting and Yearning, 2010
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 18.
  10 x 10 inches.
  $300
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  Hunger Tree, 2010
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 18.
  16 x 16 inches.
  $500
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  Lifted Burden, 2009
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 18.
  9 x 9 inches.
  $250
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  Body Tears, 2009
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18 II.
  6 x 5-1/2 inches.
  $200
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  Protecting Flames, 2008
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. AP.
  18 x 18 inches.
  $520
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  Shifting Tree (Version #2), 2008
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 18, third state.
  12 x 24 inches.
  $470
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  Second Cornice, 2008
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 18. From the portfolio The Waiting Room.
  12 x 12 inches.
  $420
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  The Mountain, 2008
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 18, second state. From the portfolio The Waiting Room.
  12 x 12 inches.
  $420
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  Body Light, 2008
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18. From the portfolio The Waiting Room.
  3 x 3 inches.
  $100
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  The Lantern, 2008
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18. From the portfolio The Waiting Room.
  3 x 3 inches.
  $100
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  Night Cloud, 2008
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18. From the portfolio The Waiting Room.
  9 x 9 inches.
  $250
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  Figure #2: Twin Flames, 2008
  Mezzotint, intaglio, digital, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Lethe: River of Forgetfulness.
  22 x 31 inches.
  $650
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  Figure #6: Shifting Tree, 2008
  Mezzotint, intaglio, digital, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Lethe: River of Forgetfulness.
  22 x 31 inches.
  $650
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  Figure #1: Mapping the Descent, 2007
  Mezzotint, intaglio, digital, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Lethe: River of Forgetfulness.
  22 x 31 inches.
  $650
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  Figure #3: The Spill, 2007
  Mezzotint, intaglio, digital, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Lethe: River of Forgetfulness.
  44 x 31 inches.
  $800
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  Figure #4: Miracle of the Reed, 2007
  Mezzotint, intaglio, digital, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Lethe: River of Forgetfulness.
  66 x 31 inches.
  $1300
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  Figure #5: The Mountain, 2007
  Mezzotint, intaglio, digital, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Lethe: River of Forgetfulness.
  66 x 31 inches.
  $1300
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  The Passage, 2007
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 18. From the portfolio The Waiting Room.
  12 x 12 inches.
  $420
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  The Reed, 2007
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 18. From the portfolio The Waiting Room.
  12 x 12 inches.
  $420
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  The Cup, 2007
  Mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. AP. From the portfolio Darkfire.
  12 x 12 inches.
  $420
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  Stream of Lethe, 2007
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Darkfire.
  12 x 12 inches.
  $420
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  Phlegyas, 2007
  Mezzotint, digital print, chine colle. AP.
  6 x 5-1/2 inches.
  $200
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  Minos, 2007
  Mezzotint. AP.
  3 x 3 inches.
  $100
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  Climbing Down, 2006
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 12. From the portfolio Darkfire.
  5 x 3-1/2 inches.
  $150
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  Wood of Suicides, 2006
  Mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 12.
  8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches.
  $250
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  Fire Coast, 2005
  Mezzotint. Edition of 12.
  12 x 9 inches.
  $250
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  Island, 2005
  Mezzotint. Edition of 12.
  5 x 3-1/2 inches.
  $100
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  Water Event, 2005
  Mezzotint, chine colle. State II. Edition of 12.
  8-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches.
  $250
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  Fire Horn, 2005
  Mezzotint, chine colle. State II. Edition of 12.
  5 x 3-1/2 inches.
  $100
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  Black Wind II, 2005
  Etching, mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 10.
  18 x 24 inches.
  $600
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  The Spill, 2005
  Etching, mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 12.
  12 x 16 inches.
  $450
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  The Field, 2005
  Etching, mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 10.
  18 x 24 inches.
  $600
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  Broken Splint, 2005
  Etching, mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 10.
  18 x 24 inches.
  $600
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  Approaching Cloud, 2004
  Etching, mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 9.
  31 x 22 inches.
  $800
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  Flood, 2004
  Etching, mezzotint, chine colle. Edition of 50.
  12-3/4 x 17-3/4 inches.
  $500
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  Life Raft, 2003
  Etching, mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. AP.
  11-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches.
  $420
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  Double Tower, 2003
  Etching, mezzotint, intaglio, chine colle. Edition of 10.
  11-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches.
  $420