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March Issue 2004
Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, Features Works by Paula Patterson
The Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, will present its Spring exhibition, still ... within: silver-point drawing by paula patterson, featuring works by Paula Patterson, on view from Mar. 11 through Apr. 25, 2004.
Patterson received her BS degree from Baton College (formerly Atlantic Christian College), in 1979. She received her Master of Arts in Education and her Master of Fine Arts degrees from East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, in 1980 and 1981, respectively. Patterson's early professional career developed in Europe, working fourteen years in England and four years in The Netherlands. She is currently an Instructor in the Department of Art at Barton College in Wilson, NC, a position she has held since 2000.
The exhibition displays 19 examples of her current body of work, silver-point drawings, which range in size from 30" x 22" to 51" x 102". These intimate drawings use imagery of dead animals and plants to deal with death, decay, rejuvenation and resurrection. Just as her models (the dead animals and plants) change over time so do her drawings as the silver tarnishes.
Using the silver-point process, Patterson takes a piece of silver wire held in a mechanical pencil and draws on paper that she has previously coated with gesso. As the silver is drawn across the white gesso it leaves minute particles of the metal embedded in the surface, producing a grayish line that darkens over time as the silver tarnishes.
Silver-point was used extensively during the Renaissance both for the underdrawing in panel paintings and as a medium for fine drawings.
A free brochure with an essay by J. Chris Wilson, Director of the Barton Museum, accompanies the exhibition. In the brochure Wilson states, "patterson has single-handedly resurrected an ancient drawing medium in our region and produced, in the modern period, what I believe to be the largest silver-point drawing in the history of the medium".
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 252/758-1946 or on the web at (www.gmoa.org).
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