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November Issue
2008
Adam Cave Fine Art in Raleigh, NC,
Features Exhibit of Printmakers
Adam Cave Fine Art in Raleigh, NC, will present the exhibit, Contemporary North Carolina Printmakers, featuring works by more then half a dozen artists, on view from Nov. 21 through Dec. 31, 2008.
A stellar collection of diverse styles of the
printmaker's craft are visible in this unusual display of today's
craftsmennostalgic, traditional, abstract, geometric, whimsical,
and mystical, etc. in limited editions of color and black and
white mezzotint, etching, intaglio, lithography, monotype and
woodcuts.
Two of the artists are academicians heading their respective printmaking
departments; Merrill Shatzman, Duke University and Donald Furst,
chair, UNCW Department of Art and Art History. Shatzman's woodcuts
invite the viewer to read her images and become a participant
in solving their puzzles. She uses amalgamated language in letter
forms, texts, and visual effects found in our surroundings. Furst,
on the other hand, treasures the mystery in the mundane, carrying
the viewer through his darkness and light, his stairways and doorways
into his subtle shadows where one's imagination completes the
venue.
Joseph Cave
Joseph Cave, of course, is known throughout
the southeast as a popularly collected painter of colorful nostalgic
North Carolina landscapes, harbor scenes, floral still lives,
and street scenes. This is a rare opportunity to see a selection
of his other love, black and white etching. Included are examples
of a European bridge and village, an outdoor café, and
a rolling European landscape, as well as southern shrimp boats
at anchor, and other more local subjects.
Injecting a reddish orange color into his distinctive and whimsical
etchings, Greensboro, NC's John Gall has produced an extensive
set of interpretations of "knowledge". Alphabetical
letters in disarray, mixed with numbers and scientific symbols
create the settings for pieces such as "moving knowledge"
where Gall's humorously dressed and disfigured man pushes letters
in a wheelbarrow. Another etching shows a number of figures preparing
the "book of knowledge". Gall even creates prints that
show "knowledge" as it might be interpreted by famous
artists like Picasso.
Nathaniel Hester has been seen at the gallery with his solo Animal
Farm exhibit of 20 whimsical, full color abstract animal portraits.
He has a new series of very small black and white linocuts created
to illustrate a book of poetry and reminiscent of naughty Indian
miniatures.
A well known Raleigh artist, painter and printmaker, Wayne Taylor,
retired NCSU design faculty, specializes in strong geometric forms.
Featured will be silkscreen prints from a pattern design series
where repeated patterns create optical illusions.
Two newcomers to the ACFA gallery are Wilmington, NC, artist Susan
Baehmann and Katherine McGinn from Asheville, NC. Baehmann touches
her color landscape etchings with a nostalgic caress. She needle
etches her intricate and detailed subjects into copper plates,
which she prints by hand on her own 900-pound press. The result
is a vintage affect with the impact of a painting. Her color prints
are achieved in a single pass on the plate, a difficult and uncommon
process. McGinn uses a variety of printmaking techniques including
monotype and reduction woodcut to create layered, semi-transparent
works. Her forms are abstracted from nature.
These well-known printmakers are recipients of a wide variety
of grants, awards, and levels of educational achievement, and
their work has been included in group, solo, and juried exhibitions.
They are represented in many private, corporate, and museum collections
throughout the United States and internationally.
For further information check our NC Commercial
Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/8386692 or visit
(www.adamcavefineart.com).
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