About The Artist:
Susan Crile
Crile was born in 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Bennington College, graduating in 1965. In 1972 Crile was interviewed by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art. The same year her image was included in the iconic poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson. Her work has political themes, such as work based on images of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Many of these images are...
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.