Title
Chicken Paste.
Coverage
Andrea Peterson (b. 1966)
Date
ca. 2012-2019
Subject
Paste paper with stenciled and freehand design; paste with acrylic on handmade sisal paper
Description
Andrea Peterson’s decorated papers are bold and experimental. Chicken Paste was made with a combination of techniques and is based on one of Peterson’s woodcuts. The sisal used in the paper’s base sheet was collected from hay and straw bale twine on her farm. Peterson’s papers are popular with artists, designers, and bookbinders, who have commissioned up to three hundred sheets.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Andrea Peterson