Marlys Kubicek

Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Collage

I was a painter and drawer a long time before I ever started printmaking. While I loved the intuitive process and the act of painting and drawing, it never really made me work hard. Initially I was interested in printmaking as a way to make multiples of my drawings but what I found was a love for the hard work in planning a print and that the process was really more about ideas; I had to think about the content before I actually did the work. Going through that process I realized that I always had a lot to say and in strange way the strict planning of printmaking allowed me to find my voice. 

I have a hard time expressing myself verbally or in writing, but I do always start with words. As I am contemplating what I want to say, I translate the words into symbols that are meaningful to me. Because that collection of images becomes complex, I have to figure out how to make them work together in a cohesive way. That means they are pushed to the background or incorporated in the small details of a print. When you have such complexity combined with the small format, the content is more nuanced and the viewer may need to spend more time with the piece in order to see everything that is there and figure out why it is there. 

My larger works tend to be mixed media using a combination of drawing, printmaking techniques, collage and found objects.

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