Terra Sonic, 1978

Philadelphia-area painter and innovative printmaker, Merle Spandorfer taught at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, the Pratt Institute, and the Cheltenham Center for the Arts.She is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In this large work, Spandorfer experiments with gum bichromate, a nineteenth-century photographic technique in which light-sensitive chemicals create a painterly “stained” effect on the surface of the canvas.