BRATTLEBORO-Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 181 Main St., presents “Intention and Surprise,” an exhibit of new works by Catherine Kernan. The exhibit opens Saturday, Aug. 22, and will be on display through Oct. 4.
There will be an artist reception at the gallery on Aug. 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. Before the reception, from 4 to 5 p.m., Kernan will give a hands-on demonstration of viscosity monotype and monoprint with soy-based Akua Intaglio inks. All are invited to participate and the results will be hand printed.
Kernan is a printmaker, painter, and author. She is co-founder and partner of Mixit Print Studio, a professional open rental printmaking studio in Davis Square, Somerville, Massachusetts. She is also co-author of Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint.
“Working at the interface between printmaking and painting, I use large-scale woodblocks in unorthodox ways as a transfer tool to build images layer by layer in a painterly process of controlled accident,” Kernan wrote. “No longer a purist, I exploit any available tool or means to transfer color and form to surface. Interruption and interference with the ‘perfect transfer’ are integral to the process.”
For more information, contact 802-251-8290, info@mitchellgiddingsfinearts.com, or visit mitchellgiddingsfinearts.com.
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