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September Issue 2003
Hodges Taylor in Charlotte, NC, Celebrates its Fine Print Room's 5th Anniversary
The Fine Print Room at Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to celebrate our fifth anniversary with an exhibition of a new series of fine prints. Raymond Chorneau has produced a new series of monotypes with the assistance of Phillip Garrett, master printer at King Snake Press. This suite of fine prints will be exhibited in the gallery Sept. 5 through Nov. 1, 2003 along with exhibitions by sculptural painter Mark Flowers and clay sculptor David Hooker.
Raymond Chorneau's monotypes contain images which relate to his paintings and works on paper. Raised in California by parents who were artists, Chorneau grew up in conversation with many of the well-known artists in the Bay Area Figurative Painters. His use of color with layers of warms over cools, and vise versa, shows lessons well learned from some of those artists. The minimal figures depicted in his work share equally in importance with the space surrounding them. Chorneau now lives in the mountains of NC, and has been represented by Hodges Taylor Gallery for over ten years.
The collaboration between Chorneau and Phil Garrett of King Snake Press is the third print publication project of Hodges Taylor's Fine Print Room. King Snake Press of Greenville, SC, grew out of Garrett's love for the monotype process. His technical expertise in the inking and printing of monotypes offered Chorneau the opportunity to concentrate wholly on the visual possibilities of the prints. Garrett is also a painter and printmaker, giving him an added sensitivity in this collaborative process.
The monotype process involves drawing or painting with printing inks directly onto a matrix of plastic or metal and transferring the image onto paper by running it through a press. Monotypes are unique images as the process transfers most of the ink onto the paper during printing. However, a "ghost" impression can be printed of the plate's residual ink creating a much lighter image to be used on its own or as ground for developing the same image in a different direction. The process seems to have been first used by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione in the seventeenth century and notably revived by Degas in the early years of the twentieth century.
This exhibition celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Fine Print Room, which offers the public an opportunity to view prints published throughout the United States and Europe. Prints in most printing processes are available from publishers such as Pace Prints in New York, Wingate Press in New Hampshire, Crown Point Press in California, Tandem Press in Wisconsin, and Marlborough Graphics in London. Work by internationally known artists, such as Donald Sultan, Judy Pfaff, Wayne Thiebaud, John Gibson, Pat Steir and Lorna Simpson, are included in the selection of prints currently available.
The Fine Print Room intends to continue its publishing program giving Hodges Taylor Gallery artists an opportunity to work with master printers and experiment with new media. The program gives the visitors to the gallery an opportunity to see many different approaches to the lush and expressive qualities of the printmaking processes.
Mark Flowers
The gallery's exhibitions
by Mark Flowers and David Hooker start the gallery's new season
with a blend of two- and three-dimensional work. Flowers is acutely
aware of the shape of his works, and seeks a balance between painting
and sculpture. His manipulated surfaces and the attached ready-made
objects successfully blur the formal distinction between the two
disciplines.
David J.P. Hooker
Hooker shares with loving humor his family portraits. Sculpted self-portraits and drawn portraits of family and pets, incised on surfaces of jugs and jars are references to his fascination with the South Carolina face jugs. Hooker's desire is that the finished work will reflect the juxtaposition between that slow, deliberate process of working with wet clay and the energetic frenzy of modern life.
For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call June Lambla at the gallery at 704/334-3799 or e-mail to (jlambla@carolina.rr.com) and at (www.hodgestaylor.com).
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