diptych showing an interior space with patterned rug covered in prints, which have been neatly and intentionally placed; on the left side of the image there are several gray and white rocks that appear to serve as paper weights for the prints; the left also hosts a window looking out on a wooded landscape with a brown bird sitting on a branch at left center; a small bee rests on the window sill at left; in front of the window on a decorative box is a potted purple iris; on the right side of the image there is no window, just a solid, maroon colored wall and an undecorated box with a brass clasp that serves as a stand for three wilting irises in purple, red, and orange, which are loosely tied to two grey sticks for support; at bottom center on the right side two peaches and a small bird's nest with three eggs are obscured by two of the prints; the entire image is rendered in deep blues, greens, purples, golds, and pinks; at center where the left and right sheets come together is an abundant bouquet of flowers

%C2%A9 Katja Oxman

If Bird the Silence Contradict, 1997

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German-born Katje Oxman retains childhood memories of a country deeply scarred by war. Her art presents a hermetic world of more serene reverie embodied by natural objects, prints, and postcards of art laid out on the vibrant background of a geometric oriental rug. She produces her luscious images through a painstaking process involving four precisely etched and aquatinted copper plates inked with semi-transparent colors printed in perfect registration.

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Title
If Bird the Silence Contradict
Artist Life
born 1942
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2015.122.2a,b
Provenance
Mark and Katja Oxman
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diptych showing an interior space with patterned rug covered in prints, which have been neatly and intentionally placed; on the left side of the image there are several gray and white rocks that appear to serve as paper weights for the prints; the left also hosts a window looking out on a wooded landscape with a brown bird sitting on a branch at left center; a small bee rests on the window sill at left; in front of the window on a decorative box is a potted purple iris; on the right side of the image there is no window, just a solid, maroon colored wall and an undecorated box with a brass clasp that serves as a stand for three wilting irises in purple, red, and orange, which are loosely tied to two grey sticks for support; at bottom center on the right side two peaches and a small bird's nest with three eggs are obscured by two of the prints; the entire image is rendered in deep blues, greens, purples, golds, and pinks; at center where the left and right sheets come together is an abundant bouquet of flowers

© Katja Oxman

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