About This Item:

Cyanotype

Unframed, Can be displayed Vertically or Horizontally

24”L x 18”W

“In 2020 during the shutdown, I experimented with the Cyanotype alternative photographic technique while isolating at home due to the Pandemic. The essence of blueness is produced in these prints that utilize light sensitive iron salt chemicals and sunlight; a simple and fascinating process. Items are placed on the chemically treated paper to block out the sun, and after exposure creates a white silhouette with a brilliant Prussian blue background. Sometimes variations in lighter blues are created depending on exposure time and other colors can be achieved with variations with the process. Blue is a color I have gravitated to all my life and symbolizes calm, peacefulness and stability.”

-Lisa Schonberg

Lisa Schonberg is an artist who explores the world of printmaking through a variety of processes including relief, intaglio, monoprinting, screenprinting and cyanotype work. Her subject matter and conceptual ideas are derived from an inquisitive observation of the natural world and the fascinating parallels that aspects in nature have with various conditions and stages in human life.

Lisa has an MFA in Printmaking from Kent State University and a BFA from Ohio University. Recently retired from teaching, her career includes teaching in public and private schools (K-12), local colleges and participating in several artists’ residencies and internships. She has also been a resident artist at Zygote Press in Cleveland for 14 years, where she prints and teaches.

She has exhibited her work in juried, invitational and solo shows as well
as local, regional and international galleries since 1984. Lisa has artwork in collections such as the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany as well as in various other corporate and private collections.