Opal Ecker DeRuvo

I hope through the process of drawing, recreating, rendering, and re-experiencing that my images can bridge the gap between viewer and subject and create a moment of empathy between them. I am trying to record the experience of love fraught with it’s tenderness and concerns, and embody it in marks sometimes delicate and sometimes forceful. Whether forming gossamer overlays in graphite’s shimmer or bony carapaces protruding from inky printed blacks, the act of drawing connects an interior with it’s exterior, my sentiments with my subjects.

New Work, 2026

Within the defiant halo of an embrace, there can exist a tenderness so powerful and so vital it overwhelms the violence that surrounds us. This violence is embedded in our society and targets every coded marker of Otherness we possess.

Incidense, 2026

$650.004 of 8 Prints Left

Printed in 2026
Photogravure printed full bleed on Hahnemuhle Copperplate with graphite ink
11.5″x17.3″ plate, 11.5″x17.3″ paper
Edition of 8 with 2 artist proofs and 1 BAT
Printed by Nathanael Kooperkamp & Walker Blackwell
Published by Prints on Paper Studio
Signed and Editioned by the Artist
Edition ID: OED-003

Inversion, 2026

$650.004 of 8 Prints Left

Printed in 2026
Photogravure printed full bleed on Hahnemuhle Copperplate with graphite ink
11.5″x17.3″ plate, 11.5″x17.3″ paper
Edition of 8 with 2 artist proofs and 1 BAT
Printed by Nathanael Kooperkamp & Walker Blackwell
Published by Prints on Paper Studio
Signed and Editioned by the Artist
Edition ID: OED-002

Interference, 2026

$650.004 of 8 Prints Left

Printed in 2026
Photogravure printed full bleed on Hahnemuhle Copperplate with graphite ink
11.5″x17.3″ plate, 11.5″x17.3″ paper
Edition of 8 with 2 artist proofs and 1 BAT
Printed by Nathanael Kooperkamp & Walker Blackwell
Published by Prints on Paper Studio
Signed and Editioned by the Artist
Edition ID: OED-001

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