Art on Paper Exhibitions
Overcoming Discouragement: Frank Long’s WPA-Era Works at Berea College
On display in the Doris Ulmann Galleries at Berea College are a series of Frank Long’s mural studies for public post offices and his more personal series of woodcut prints depicting the achievement of Hercules. Long had close ties to Berea College and was living in Berea when the murals were produced. The Treasury Department…
Read MoreElise Nicol “You’re Always Brilliant in the Morning”
Do images piled atop one another deny or define what’s underneath? Do collaged layers invite you to look at them as a whole? Or do you look through and around a pieced-together image instead of just at it? What happens when two images bump up against one another? Or words bump up against an image?…
Read MoreWendy Wolf ” Examined Repetition” at Bromfield Gallery in Boston
The series “Examined Repetition” is my form of poetry. My repeated mark-making evolved from artwork I was creating using automatic writing as imagery. As I worked I wanted to remove my direct use of words from the image and make it more about the meditative actions. Although it is no longer text, my intent with…
Read MoreAndrea Carlson “Ink Babel” at the Bockley Gallery
The Bockley Gallery boasts the debut of Ink Babel, Andrea Carlson’s newest large-scale painting. As in previous works, Carlson continues to draw upon landscape and storytelling. Her new efforts apply a direct connection to the formal and physical constrains of the cinematic filmstrip. Ink Babel is a work painted with ink and oil on 60 paper panels assembled…
Read MoreJanet Gorzegno “Old Souls” at Bowery Gallery in New York City
Painter Janet Gorzegno’s new works in gouache on paper that invent for contemplation glimpses of the human—her recurring motif is the human head, which appears as a symbol of human consciousness. Gorzegno’s intimately sized paintings discover their form from within; they concentrate the eye on serene faces that appear wrapped in stillness as if attending…
Read MoreWeird, Wild, & Wonderful
Weird, Wild, & Wonderful, The Second Triennial New York Botanical Garden Exhibition, opened in the Garden’s Ross Gallery on April 19. Curated by the American Society of Botanical Artists, the traveling exhibition features contemporary artworks of botanical oddities and curiosities, and includes artists from the US, Australia, Canada, India, Japan, and the UK. The forty-six…
Read MoreThe Saint John’s Bible at the New Mexico History Museum
Beginning in 1996, the community of Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, began planning and working on The Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten, illuminated Bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in five hundred years. The New Mexico History Museum is currently hosting an exhibition of original pages of The Saint John’s…
Read MoreGraphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF at Tampa Museum of Art
“Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF” is the most ambitious and comprehensive show to feature works from the workshop since the survey exhibition of the early years of Graphicstudio at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in 1991. The exhibit features forty-five years of more than 110 original works by an international array of 45 of the…
Read MoreLaurie Frick: Walking, Eating, Sleeping
Laurie Frick opens an exhibit at the Marfa Contemporary Gallery “Walking, Eating, Sleeping” and it takes an obsessive, quantitative look at daily life, drawing on Frick’s background in engineering and technology.The artwork of Laurie Frick explores the intersection of technology and creativity as the artist herself adopts a daily regimen of self-tracking that measures her…
Read MoreAudubon and the Art of Birds
The Bell Museum will debut Audubon and the Art of Birds, an exhibition that explores the human fascination with birds, and showcases one of the museum’s most valuable treasures: a double-elephant folio edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America. The rare collection of hand-colored engravings was donated to the Bell Museum in 1928. John James Audubon (1785-1851) is…
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