Adia Taimuty-Loomis

A colorful composition consisting of the layering and juxtaposition of stamps to create patterns. + Enlarge
Stamp Sunrise 2020 Rubber Stamp, Colored Pencil on Paper 7" x 11"
Two mirrored, distorted images of hands carved from linoleum, one light yellow, one dark green, against a lime green background both pointing toward the center of a bright blue target. + Enlarge
What It Is 2020 Letterpress 8" x 10"
A distorted image of a purple hand carved from linoleum centered on the page against a magenta background with purple hearts emanating from its palm. + Enlarge
Manifest Love 2020 Letterpress 8" x 10"
An image of a dazed dark orange cartoonish flower sprouting from a wavy border, flanked by two smaller shadowy flowers against a warm watercolor background. + Enlarge
Dazey 2021 Linoleum Relief Print on Watercolor 6" x 10"
An image of a depressed turquoise cartoonish flower sprouting from a detailed curved border, flanked by two smaller shadowy flowers against a cool watercolor background. + Enlarge
Dour Flower 2021 Linoleum Relief Print on Watercolor 6" x 10"
Two pairs of mystical purple mushrooms framing the bottom left and upper right corners of the page with layered hearts and diamond shaped stars filling the spaces in between. + Enlarge
C12H17N2O4P 2021 Linoleum Relief Print on Paper 7" x 11"
Statement

As a printmaker and designer based in Baltimore, Maryland, I have always been drawn to more intuitive work and much of my recent work within printmaking has been a pursuit of instinctive exploration. While such explorations have introduced me to new practices, techniques, and opportunities, at times this approach has left me feeling directionless in my art making. However, through my explorations, I have come to realize that it is the exploration itself that I truly enjoy and printmaking is one tool of expression I like to keep handy. My work has been influenced by my interests in music, pop art, and post-modern design as well as concepts and ideologies that have occupied my mind.

Something that occupies my mind are the ways I have observed artists, printmakers, and creators I admire on social media, explore and expand their own practices through limitation. For myself, limitation has meant taking my processes off the press and into more portable means of making by exploring the usage of stamps and small relief blocks, my work "Stamp Sunrise" being one such example. As I continue to discover the best outlet for my intuitive approach, I seek to push my print work further in the direction of tactility.