About this work
Framed dimensions: 12.5" h x 12.5" w x 1.75"d
Signed bottom right: Marie Wise
"The [Nest Series by Marie Figge Wise] are very simple, very rich. The drawing had great line quality; it had depth; a certain richness on the heavier areas that bring a lot of light through it, which is really important with printmaking. When I see that It always gets my attention because you don’t see that very often. It looked like she intended every mark. There were no mistakes, and that’s unusual in printmaking. When I work with artists doing monotypes; if you look like you intended every line and mark, then it was successful."
~Craig O'Brien, master printmaker
O'Brien has worked with virtually every big name in American art: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Ivan Chermayeff.