Pressed: Six Contemporary Printmakers
October 19 - November 28, 2018
(Closed Thanksgiving holiday, Nov 21 - 25)
Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, October 19, 2018, 5 鈥� 7 p.m.
Lecture and Q & A with Miguel Arag贸n Thursday, Nov 8, 5:30 - 6:30 in the gallery
The Schick Art Gallery presents Pressed: Six Contemporary Printmakers, featuring works by Miguel Arag贸n, Sean Caulfield, Tony de los Reyes, Tom Huck, Karen
Kunc, and Kathryn Polk, artists from across the United States who push the limits
of printmaking and are masters of their craft.
Kathryn Polk鈥檚 sharp and witty figurative works reveal a thoughtful mind processing
the intersection of cultural and personal events. Miguel Arag贸n uses the dust-like
residue from the laser-cutting process to create images whose subtlety belies their
subject 鈥� drug violence in Mexico. Tony de los Reye鈥檚 images are also drawn from current
events; they depict tiny openings in border fencing between Mexico and the United
States, irregular shapes that offer only enigmatic suggestions of life on the other
side. Tom Huck鈥檚 dense and elaborate woodblock triptych is an eight-foot by eight-foot
blast of rich satire. Both Karen Kunc鈥檚 and
Sean Caulfield鈥檚 prints involve images and patterns drawn from nature - Kunc鈥檚 colorful
and poetic, and Caulfield鈥檚 darkly ominous.
Curated by 颤抖小蜜桃 Associate Professor of Art Kate Leavitt, who has taught
printmaking for over thirty years, Pressed features works that employ the printmaking disciplines taught at Skidmore - lithography,
etching, and woodblock printing. All six artists also do their own printing, rather
than creating an image and then relying on professional lithographic art printers
to produce their work. Artists Kathryn Polk and Miguel Arag贸n will participate in
the Gallery Talk at 5:45 on Friday, Oct 19th, and Miguel Arag贸n will return for a
panel talk in the Schick Gallery on Thursday, November 8th at 5:30 p.m.
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