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Artist: Otis Tamasauskas (Lithuanian-Canadian, b. 1947)
Lithuanian-Canadian printmaker. Born in Terschenreuth, Germany in a displaced persons camp in 1947, following his parents' flight from Lithuania after the Russian communist occupation. Experiments outside the conventions of printmaking, integrating found objects such as sheets of metal, pelts, clumps of horsehair, and carved wood. Results in prints with rich textural surfaces. Greatly inspired by Lithuanian design. Was Master Printer and Director of Etching at Open Studio in Toronto and has taught printmaking at McMaster University in Hamilton, Scarborough College, University of Toronto, and Queen's University in Kingston.