KAPROV: Installed in 2002, "Urban Helix" is a large--8 foot by 54
foot--work that merges traditional painting with computer-generated design. It is a composite of images inspired by science and technology that are set within a colorful, imaginary urban grid. Fabricated in fired
enamel on glass in Munich, the work took eighteen months to complete.
It is the largest and most complex of its kind to date.
KAPROV: Now I spend hundreds of dollars a week buying beautiful flowers in wonderful colors with glorious convoluted petals and leaves, then dismembering them for my prints. I like the idea of seeing the pieces as part of a puzzle. This print series called "Nature...Last Modified" deals with flowers and plants in various stages of fragmentation.
KAPROV: I don't enhance the color of the flowers, which are real. They must be very fresh and alive in order to create this work. The way I use the scanner reveals the inner shapes and translucent quality of the petals and the leaves. With these gladiolus the petals become almost like a butterfly or a dragonfly's wings.
KAPROV: The digital prints are composed by working backwards with the foreground elements put in place first.
KAPROV: At first glance, people are seduced by the lushness of the colors and form. Then they discover they are actually visual puzzles composed of fragmented flowers and leaves.
Newspaper & Magazine Articles & Reviews:
"Susan Kaprov: The Art of Chance" Computer Graphics Magazine, feature article, 1998; Art In America, Arts Magazine, Art News, Newsday, Arts Calendar Newsletter:"Artist Profile", The Village Voice, The New York Times, New York Post, Boston Globe.
Major Collections with Susan Kaprov's work:(abbreviated list)
Urban Helix, 2002 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY
Air & Space Museum (Washington, DC)
Amoco Corporation (Chicago)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen (Netherlands)
The Brooklyn Museum (New York)
Bristol Myers Squibb Corporation (NJ)
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC))
The Gernsheim Collection (Switzerland)
Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
National Museum of American Art (Washington, DC)
New York Public Library
Pfizer, Inc. (New York)
Rutgers University (NJ)
University of Texas Art Museum (Austin, TX)
Yale University Art Gallery (CT)
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