Where:
Evie Salon Studio
57 Holland St., Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Alcohol, Art
Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1880870308861788/
Please join us on May 20th for the opening reception of Oxydo – Gravures by Kim Després-Villard (Reforestation Series). Wine and light refreshments will be served.
About the series:
At her winter studio in France the artist is surrounded by a national forest. The oxydo-gravure process commences there, outdoors, by positioning rusty metal objects on prepared bamboo paper. Exposure to nature migrates the rust from the metal onto the paper, creating an imprint. The one-of-a-kind base images are “harvested“ after several weeks under the Provençal sky. Upon returning to her summer studio in Maine, she revisits the images, painting color into the negative spaces.
Physicists say that a ratio of chaos to order is seven to one in the universe. Respecting that formula, the base images are not overworked, allowing the unkempt aspect of forests as a suggestion and subject matter. The finished product is a hybrid of seeing the forest through printmaking, graphite and watercolor.
The work will be on view May - June 2017.
Saturday, Apr 27, 2024 goes until 04/28
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center