Joan Busing
Joan Busing is a fine arts graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. She is a printmaker who has exhibited widely in museums and galleries throughout the country and has been selected for many major exhibitions. Her work is in many private collections. She has received the Edna St. Vincent Millay fellowship for independent study in the arts.
She has illustrated two limited edition books, "A Woman's Love and Life", Robert Schumann's song cycle and "The Translated Poems of Rumi", the Persian poet, both published by Vincent FitzGerald and Co. The books have been exhibited at the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress and purchased for their permanent collections. Joan Busing works with master printmaker, Marjorie VanDyke, at her printmaking studio in New York City and teaches at her art school for gifted high school students in Westchester County.
"Art has been my life and passion since I was a young girl studying at the Art Students League. I love painting, I love printmaking and I love the process of combining the two to make a monoprint. My work changes constantly and I look forward to the challenge of each working day."
THE PRINTMAKING TECHNIQUE
A monoprint is a unique, single print, made from an image painted on a surface or plate - in this case plexiglass - and then transferred to paper by an etching press. The image's oil inks may be reworked and run through the press several times to create depth and intensity in the finished print. Monoprinting combines the spontaneity of painting and the versatility of printmaking. The process produces only one print.
Since the historical exhibition of monoprints 1980 arranged by the Metropolitan and Boston Museums, there has been an unprecedented explosion of interest in this medium. Painters, sculptors and printmakers all over the country have discovered new and remarkable ways to study the monoprint. Indeed, many artists have not just recast their familiar images and concerns, but have extended their range of expression through the properties possible in. making monoprints. The monoprint, which has been small in scale in the past, has today grown to the size of large canvases.
