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Article: Passionate Patterns; Aline Feldman's Vibrant Landscape Woodcuts
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- The Washington Post
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- June 18, 1988
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The modern landscape artist no longer treks to the country, sets
up an easel and paints the scene on canvas. Aline Feldman, for
instance, charters a helicopter. She makes drawings, takes
photographs and then distills what she's seen into extraordinary
woodcuts that are well worth whatever heights she goes to.
At Marsha Mateyka Gallery, her woodcuts are dramatic patchwork
quilts of land forms, rolling with moss green, forest green, deep
reds that turn purple, ultramarine scored with freshets of white.
She may even repeat a pattern in different landscapes, much the way a
quilter uses the same material over again in different quilts.
Her prints are not tied to one place-though she may ...