Sara Greenberger Rafferty - Paper Variable 2014
Edition 10 of 25
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Untitled, 2014
Hand-cut archival acetate, abaca paper, and inkjet transfer
11 x 8 1⁄2 inches
Dieu Donné is pleased to release Untitled, a new Paper Variables commission by Sara Greenberger Rafferty. The series was created in collaboration with Studio Collaborator Lisa Switalski, using the Dieu Donné studio’s hydraulic press to transfer inkjet prints onto wet abaca paper and acetate. Each work in the edition is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed and numbered by the artist.
Experimenting with distortion and intentional accidents inherent to papermaking was a natural direction from Rafferty’s practice. Her work frequently features appropriated stills or photographs of comedic performers who are familiar in the public realm but become ambiguously gendered bodies through degradation. Rafferty was open to the possibilities of papermaking to create an object, rather than an image reproduced on a flat surface. The resulting edition presented an opportunity to work with materials not often used in the Dieu Donné studio and a new intersection of digital processes and handmade paper.
About the Artist
Sara Greenberger Rafferty lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In October, 2021, she opened a solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2017, Gloves Off, a solo museum exhibition accompanied with a fully illustrated catalogue opened at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, NY and traveled to the University Art Museum in Albany, NY. She is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL; and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH.
For more information, please visit her website:
https://sgrstudio.info/contact/
About Paper Variables
Celebrate the possibilities! The Paper Variables series are unique collectable works in a limited edition. Each piece is handmade in our studios, and artists love the chance to experiment with different colors and additions to make each piece distinctive. For collectors, it’s an opportunity to acquire works by well known artists at an attractive price. Signed and numbered by the artist.