Fulmer Coal
Paper, cloth, thread
12 x 12"
2006
3rd Lesson
Paper, cloth
12 x 12"
2006
Being 8
Paper, cardboard
2010
Sutton Hoo
Paper, cloth, thread, pressed leaf
12 x 12"
2007
Lars
Paper
12x 12"
2006
Korde
Paper, foil, metal spring
7 3/4" x 9 1/2"
2007
Babbit
Paper, postage stamps
9 1/2 x 6"
2011
Bohemia
Paper, cloth, thread, foil, watercolor
8 3/8" x 8 3/8"
2014
48
Paper, leather, mica
8 1/2 x 8 1/2"
2012
Wallpiece
Paper, cloth
9 3/8 x 5 7/8"
2011
Orbit of Saturn
Paper, metal, mica watercolor
9 3/4 x 7 1/4"
2014
Smolder
Paper, cloth and leather
9 3/8 x 5 13/16"
2011
Viking
Paper in Victorian paper frame
3 3/4 x 2 1/2"
2010
Roma
Paper, thread
3 3/4"x 2 1/2"
2010
O What We Spent
Paper, cloth, thread
3 3/4 x 2 1/2"
2010
Number Les
Leather, paper, cigar box tax label
3 3/4" x 2 1/2"
2010
87
Paper, wallpaper, cloth, straight pins
3 3/4" x 2 1/2"
2010
Telegramme
Leather, paper, French telegram
3 3/4" x 2 1/2"
2010
Korde
Paper, foil, metal spring
7 3/4" x 9 1/2"
2007
2259 Foiled
Paper, silver, foil
3 3/4" x 2 1/2"
2010
Browning
Paper, ink-stained paper, book spine
3 3/4" x 2 1/2"
2010
Ms. Strausman has been living and working in the Hudson Valley for more than twenty years, observing and culling from nature. Residing now in Rensselaerville, NY, she concentrates her attention on the natural world and the study of art in many of its forms.
Her influences include her husband, Albert Strausman, now deceased, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, Antoni Tapies, Kurt Schwitters and the poignant and tragic collages and constructions of Hannalore Baron. Strausman collects from many diverse ephemera for her work, and is particularly interested in stained, torn, and tarnished papers, books, labels and cloth from past lives. She incorporates these with dried plants, old handwriting; anything well loved and cast off. She plots her collages with stories from years gone by.