Rosemarie Fiore is not a printmaker, however her one-of-a-kind works are often the result of mechanical processes that could perhaps under very controlled conditions produce multiples. Fiore creates impressions with pinball machines, lawnmowers, a Scrambler amusement park ride and fireworks to name a few. A focus of her work seems to be revealing a new life or purpose in machinery and objects that are assumed to only have a single use.
On the occasion that she would be producing a print edition with Lower East Side Printshop, one might expect that Fiore would reconsider the use of the etching press, instead she resurrected discarded subway windows as the perfect printing plate with art already applied through passengers’ random scrawled writings. The result, as is the result in much of her work, was a documentation of the beauty of the ordinary or common occurrences in everyday life.
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