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Catherine Kernan, Orange Meander II
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Working at the interface between printmaking and painting, I use large scale woodblocks build images layer by layer in a painterly process of controlled accident.
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Walter J. Phillips, Mount Rundle
Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence. The bubbling
spring engenders and supports life; the
raging torrent and the remorseless flood
may be the instruments of its destruction.
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Steven R. Holloway, The River Awakens at Night
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We vow to map and comment on spatial relationships in a manner non-harming, with reverence and respect, and to reflect and reveal the beauty of life in a manner non-objectified, where the economic, the non-economic, and the unseen elements are given voice. |
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Deborah Cornell, Coriolis Effect
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In an age of climate change, water - the connective tissue of everything - becomes partly inimical as sea levels react to human interference on a global level. I use digital methods of printmaking to iterate the influence of technological science on our perceptions of the real. In the layered transparencies, edges become indistinct.
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CURRENTS:
Traditional, Innovative and Experimental Prints of Water
Deborah Cornell
Catherine Kernan
Steven R. Holloway
Walter J. Phillips
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Part of Lowell Celebrates .
Printmaking in conjunction with the . 2013 Boston Printmakers Biennial . Reception Sat. October 26, 4-6pm
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Artists Walter J. Phillips, center
Walter Wright, left foreground
Banff, Alberta, Canada, c. 1952
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Celebrate 2 Walters in 1 day!
119 Gallery founder Walter Wright is the grandson of Walter J. Phillips
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Lowell, MA-- Prints are motionless. Prints can move. Prints depicting water hold the viewer rapt, caught between the stillness of the surface and motion which extends beneath and beyond the paper. Each of the printmakers in Currents celebrates water in different manners. From the early 20th-century color woodblock prints of acclaimed Canadian printmaker Walter J. Phillips, to the multi-layered and experimental prints of the contemporary artists, each print captures in time the fluidity of the ink and of the subject.
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Walter J. Phillips is famous for his woodcuts and watercolors that spanned the first half of the twentieth century. He was a resident artist at the Banff Center, (the Banff School of Fine Arts), where the Walter Phillips Gallery is named after him. In February 1997 Canada Post issued" 'York Boat on Lake Winnipeg,' 1930, Walter J. Phillips' in the Masterpieces of Canadian art series. "York Boat on Lake Winnipeg," as well as four additional color woodblocks of water, and the first day of issue stamp are on view in the exhibit.
Deborah Cornell works in traditional and digital prints, installation, and virtual reality. She has exhibited internationally in France, Australia, Finland, UK, and Iceland. Her artwork is in the M.F.A. and collections in the U.S. and abroad. She is Chair of Printmaking of the School of Visual Arts at Boston University and an Associate Professor of Art. Previously she was the Director of the Experimental Etching Studio, Visiting Artist at Radcliffe College, and Director of the Boston University Visual Arts Institute at
Tanglewood.
Steven R. Holloway is a artist and mapmaker who makes limited edition maps and prints that have won numerous awards. A former professor, he has taught cartography, visual language, geography, thematic cartography and the "art of observation." Holloway founded toMake™ Press in 1998 where he produces original maps and limited edition prints, "performance maps," original artist books, and paintings.
Catherine Kernan has been an exhibiting artist for over 25 years. She has been an art instructor for just as long, having held many faculty positions at colleges, art institutes and museums. She has taught numerous workshops throughout the eastern U.S., as well as other regions and countries.
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