Date/Time
10/8/2016 - 10/30/2016
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Eastern
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM Eastern
Event Type(s)
Margaretville
Event Description
Prints by John Hopkins, Louise Kalin, Ted Sheridan and Alix Hallman Travis The Commons Gallery Saturday-Sunday, October 1-30, noon-4:00 Prints of John Hopkins, Louise Kalin, Ted Sheridan and Alix Hallman Travis in the Commons Gallery during the month of October explore connections between artists and artists, artists and objects and artists and community. John Hopkins well known for his landscape painting has most recently exhibited at the Commons Gallery, not his landscapes but his work of strong political opinions. Now he is surprising us again with artists’ prints: monoprints from woodcut plates, to which he adds collage and paint. During the last year Hopkins and his sister, fine art printer, Louise Kalin, have been dancing a duet of printing. Or more accurately, as he says, he “has been learning both from watching Kalin and looking at her work as it evolves. Then using the basic ideas of her method” Hopkins has produced a series of mixed media monotypes of his own. Louise Kalin’s Catskill childhood nurtured a reverence for nature and the environment. The layers, the patterns and colors of her natural surroundings are embedded in the images in any Kalin print. “I’ve adapted the alchemical processes of printmaking so that inks are transformed into richly layered colors and abstracted shapes that echo the world that surrounds me. The broader landscape often frames my inner landscapes. Chance, spontaneity and the joy of making are part of the excitement of wonderful unexpected results.” Ted Sheridan creates prints using the oxidation of metals directly on paper. Iron, in particular, in object form, granules and powders provides a medium that can be combined with water, magnetism and gravity to create impressions of mass, force and flow. There is a certain amount of serendipity in these prints, as the overall compositional organization gives way to the unpredictable behavior of the materials. The current exhibit will include works from a new series called Furrows. For her linoleum block prints Alix Hallman Travis has turned to the subjects of home and nature present in her earlier series of paintings. She has combined and interpreted these subjects with block printing and applied color. Art friends who visited the Commons Gallery last winter when it was transformed into a warm work space were privy to this work in progress and saw the rich black block printing become an element of design and value in the new colorful works of watercolor and oil. “Prints by John Hopkins, Louise Kalin, Ted Sheridan and Alix Hallman Travis” in the Commons Gallery, 785 Main St., Margaretville, Saturday-Sunday, October 1-30, noon-4:00 or by chance or appointment 607 326-7073.
Location
Contact Person
Alix Travis
(phone: 607 326-7073)
(phone: 607 326-7073)
Details
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