Announcing a Hand-Embellished Limited Edition by Christina Zimpel

Lincoln Center Editions is pleased to announce Clap by Christina Zimpel, a co-publication with Artspace: A Phaidon Company. In a recent interview with Artspace, Zimpel shares her experience working on the prints.

Q: Tell us about the hand embellishing of the edition.

CZ: "As my compositions are quite precise, I decided not to embellish the figure or background but concentrate on the face. I thought I’d create many women, many moods and each with their own personality. I’m concerned that women are becoming way too homogenous these days, so it was great to see all these characters emerge!"

Q: Your works sometimes flirt with abstraction and figuration. How do you balance these two impulses in a single piece?

CZ: "I love that juxtaposition. I definitely reduce my figures to the absolute minimum. I keep reducing the body until I know it can still be read but teetering on abstraction and remove or shave down everything else. It gives the work a lot of strength viewed from a distance. Closer up the face and hair adornment is the area I like to tell more of the story."


Read more of the interview here!