Davidson Galleries

Medium: Etching and aquatint
Dimensions: 16 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches (Plate) 26 x 21 3/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1914 - 1988
Date finished: 1965

Recommended by Emma (Marketing & Communications Manager):
"The print showcases the ink, creating a "landscape" filled with movement, detail, and texture.With simple composition and beautiful colors, Sekino creates a tender relationship between the viewer and the subject. There's something very somber in seeing such a huge animal rendered so small and trapped within the box of the composition. I feel that the horse is lost in the landscape rather than free."

Medium: Etching and aquatint
Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (Image) 13 1/4 x 17 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Japanese, 1957
Edition: of 35

Recommended by Nikki (Fine Print Photographer & Content Publisher):
"Asahi’s work perfectly balances technical skill with playfulness. This particular etching is full of graceful arcs and twirls that spin the viewer in towards the town at the center. Asahi uses her signature color palette to create a softness that’s pleasing to look at with tiny pops of color that also serve to direct the viewer’s eye. Each character depicted is given importance and movement - even the buildings seem to be enjoying themselves, tucked between the jumping fish and waves of the water."

Series: Noah's Arc Portfolio
Medium: Mezzotint
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Italian, 1921 - 2009
Date of impression: 1971
Edition: 38/75

Recommended by Sam (Owner & Director):
"This mezzotint is one of ten images created for the Noah's Ark portfolio published by Aquarius Press, Baltimore 1971.  This artist (in France) and Hamaguchi (in Japan),  were primarily responsible for a new respect for mezzotint  as a fine art medium rather than merely a copy process.  In the 17th and 18th centuries, mezzotint had been used to copy paintings for the nobility and senior church patrons.  Avati exploited the range of values from velvety blacks to full white highlights, to make unique images not replicating an existing image in another medium.  He makes masterful use of burnishers and scrapers over the 'rocked' surface to define the form purely through his control of values rather than outlines."

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 4 inches (Plate) 11 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Ukrainian, 1961
Date finished: 2007
Edition: of 20

Recommended by Paige (Collections Manager):
"Oleksiy Fedorenko creates wildly enigmatic etchings, and I treasure them all. His works are full of absurdity, whimsicality and subtlety, and yet are so clear - exactly as he describes them. In Person with Bell, there is certainly a person and a bell, but the title is comically reductive. He even writes the title in lovely script in the plate. But he fails to mention that the person seems to have four eyes, there is also a person with towering hair, small castles in space, and floating, glowing microbes or generally unidentified squiggles. It's human yet fantastical and otherworldly. I haven't the slightest about when or where this scene is from, but I'm captivated."

Medium: Oak and trunnels from Wawona
Dimensions: 13 x 49 x 25 inches (image)
Artist details: American , 1970
Date finished: 2013

Recommended by Sam (Owner & Director):
"This sculpture, made from planks salvaged from the historic lumber transport ship Wawona (finally taken apart in Lake Union after restoration attempts failed to find funding), tells so much about the source of his materials and the artist's interest in finding inspiration where initial utility was not the final condition for consideration.  Look no farther than the artist's giant reconstructed tree currently installed at the Seattle Art Museum. Parse makes rich use of the bilge stained oak timbers from the hull and with the dowels or trunnels referencing the early marine construction methods.  The graceful curve out from the wall suggests the curve of the former ship's hull. Grade honors the memory of the Wawona with a new life."