Mark Brodie

Photography had been my primary artistic outlet for the last 30 years but I’ve always had an appreciation for works on paper, so I was not surprised to find myself combining the two processes using photography with photopolymer plates, also referred to as solarplates.

Now that I share my time between a studio in Denver and more recently, San Francisco, my photographic studies have shifted from nature to more architectural, I’m especially drawn to public buildings and museum interiors.  By “burning” my photos onto the solarplates, I can deconstruct these urban images by varying the combination, the sequence in which the plates are printed, the colors used, and transform them into an infinite range of abstract, organic compositions and textures.

That’s precisely why I prefer monoprints, it’s just too much fun to continually alter aspects of the process in order to produce a new creation each time the paper is pulled from the plate. I often view the world as a potential plate and my prints reflect the richness and flexibility of this medium.