Ten years ago Bobbie Halperin began to move from painting directly to working more indirectly. She started cutting up canvases on which she had already painted and rearranging the pieces until something new emerged. Recently she has been able to extend this technique using computer graphics. Instead of cutting canvases physically, she now does so electronically while also employing print media. Her background in etching, silk-screening and woodcutting has made this process even more appealing to her. Additionally, digital printing comes close to lithography, which she has always wanted to explore, but never had the chance to.

Because of the ease of generating variations, computer media has enormous appeal to her. Her technique involves scanning painted sketches (not paintings), mostly abstract, and manipulating them, as with her “cut-ups,” in Photoshop. She prints the results using a high quality inkjet printer.

Bobbie Halperin's works will be on display in the Eveleth Green Gallery through June 28th.