Offering Time
by Karen Kunc
- Date:
- 2001
- Medium:
- Color woodcut with letterpress, aquatint in blue, and watercolor on cream Japanese paper, folded and housed in sharkskin paper covered folio box
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
by Karen Kunc
$1,000–$5,000. Common prints: $1,000–$2,000. Key value factors: Kunc's vibrant woodcuts are well-represented in major museum collections. Larger formats and more dynamic compositions command premiums.
Offering Time is a 2001 work by Karen Kunc created using an elaborate combination of techniques: color woodcut with letterpress, aquatint in blue, and watercolor, all printed on cream Japanese paper. The piece is folded and housed in a sharkskin paper-covered folio box, making it as much a sculptural art object as a printed image. Kunc is an American printmaker who has spent decades pushing the woodcut medium beyond its conventional boundaries, producing large-scale works with rich, saturated color and complex layering. Her use of Japanese [washi](/glossary/washi) paper connects her practice to the mokuhanga tradition, though her imagery draws from natural phenomena, geological formations, and organic growth patterns rather than Japanese subjects. The folio box presentation elevates the work to a precious, contained experience, meant to be opened and contemplated rather than hung on a wall.
Offering Time was created by Karen Kunc in 2001.
Offering Time uses Etching, on color woodcut with letterpress, aquatint in blue, and watercolor on cream japanese paper, folded and housed in sharkskin paper covered folio box.
