StillScapes, the series This project was produced with the support of the Minnesota State Arts Board in the summer of 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Because I couldn’t show and share this work in person I’ve made a short demonstration video on how to print a photogravure, in this case using à la poupée, a technique for making color prints by applying different ink colors to a single printing plate. Below are the prints from the series.

All prints are 10”x10”, duo-toned photogravure, hand printed with Charbonnel ink on warm Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper.

‘Las Flores de Oaxaca’ series This body of work explores the flora found in the center of Oaxaca. These cyanogravures were first cynaotypes and were transferred to the polymer photogravure process.

‘SEEING THROUGH’ series “Lisa Nebenzahl experiments with materials, using cyanotype and photograms translated into the polymer gravure process to depict the details of the natural world. She observes the tones and textures of water, rocks, and asteroids in images that suggest the burble and crunch of an icy walk. We see the prints’ surfaces and the marks of their making. Through the inky surface the world is revealed, showing evidence of its basic forms. Nebenzahl’s diptychs suggest new and mutable relationships moving in and out of abstraction. Her observed environment is a place that shifts in scale and time. It could be any place and no place, marking the memory of experience.” - Beth Dow, curator of STATES OF MATTER

Shorelines series

Lumen Asteroid series