1. Firmament Below by Elise Wehle, Cut paper 2. Gloria by Brian Kersishnik, Relief print 3. She Made the holidays delicious by Leslie Graff, Risograph print on Mohawk Via Vellum. Order all limited-edition Christmas prints to benefit the Center with the order form.
1. Elise Wehle, Firmament Below
We are pleased to present our new 2024 Christmas print. Commissioned from the accomplished artist Elise Wehle, this beautiful image will enrich your home holiday decorations for years to come.
Firmament Below is a cut-paper, limited edition print that evokes Christmas by juxtaposing the tangible elements of the earth (plants, our bodies, and the mortal world) with patterns that represent the spirit (a holy star and an offering with outstretched hands).
Wehle’s body of work concerns itself with the struggle between the spiritual and the temporal. Her art focuses upon the cycles of life, the seasons, and the relationships between growth and decay. In Firmament Below, she celebrates Christmas and the elements of life.
The top sheet is handmade, heavyweight mulberry paper, and the sheet underneath is Unryu, a lightweight, translucent, long-fibered, green paper from Thailand made from the bark of the mulberry tree.
Elise Wehle (American, born 1986)
Firmament Below (2024)
Cut paper, 12.25 x 10.25 inches, signed and numbered, edition: 50
$100, plus $10 shipping, unframed. Order yours through the order form below.
2. Brian Kershisnik, Gloria
An instant heirloom, this image is of Kershisnik's glorious angel with a common man's reaction. This print was the inaugural holiday benefit print to support the Center.
Brian Kershisnik (American, born 1962)
Gloria (2022)
Relief print 3.75 x 4.75 (image size), 9.1875 x 9.75 (sheet size), signed and number, edition: 50
$100 + $10 shipping/handling via USPS Priority Mail. Unframed. Quantities are limited. Order yours through the order form below.
3. Leslie Graff, She made the holidays delicious
The wild, true story of She made the holidays delicious (2023):
In January 2021, a 48-year old man was arrested by the Boston police department. He had broken into Arden Gallery, destroyed and stole artworks, and tried to break into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with a small sledge hammer. Leslie Graff’s work was in that Arden Gallery show. Her painting, titled She made it delicious, was slashed by the thief and was unrepairable. Now, to bring a destroyed work back to life, Graff has returned to the image for a new work. To accomplish it, she created a full-scale cake image paired, this time, with a 1950s wrapping paper pattern based on one her grandparents had in their Idaho fabric store, which they used to wrap her Christmas gifts every year. The artist was working on the painting as her grandmother passed away a month shy of 99 years old. Graff then created the smaller holiday scene for this project which she titled She made the holidays delicious.
Leslie Graff (American, born 1976)
She made the holidays delicious (2023)
Risograph print on Mohawk Via Vellum, 9 x 12 inches (image size), 11 x 14 inches (paper size), signed and numbered, edition: 50
$100 + $10 shipping/handling via USPS Priority Mail. Unframed. Quantities are limited. Order yours through the order form below.
