Workshop with Joyce Zavorskas

Shifting Priorites 12x12 monoprint 2009

Joyce Zavorskas is teaching a workshop this weekend

Abstract Monotype/Monoprint
at Falmouth Art Center

January 16 -17, 2010
(Jan. 18, optional third day)
9:30-3:30pm

Explore abstract shapes and textures with contemporary printmaking techniques. Spontaneous painting and drawing approaches are applied to flat or textured plates and transferred to paper with a single pass of the press. Glistening layers of radiant oil ink create truly unique images with depth, mystery, or veils of memory and possibilities. Beginners will be rewarded with magical surprises. There will be daily demonstrations along with individual discussion of work in progress. The instructor will bring large rollers, including “Big Bertha”. Lab fee includes inks and basic supplies.

Call Falmouth Artist Guild to register: 508-540-3304
http://www.falmouthart.org/

presentation by Fran Forman, 1/20/10

Fran Forman will be giving a lecture and presentation at Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA on January 20. Please visit arsenalarts.org for more info.

Fran is currently a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Castle Hill Art Center in Truro, Massachusetts. Her work has been published and exhibited widely and can be found in the collections of the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Tin Men

Tin Men, by Valerie Bunnell, coming soon to a website near you. If you can't wait to see them, stop by the gallery and say hello!

"Old dolls, marionettes and puppets continue to fascinate me with their enigmatic spirits and hidden past lives. As an artist I have always wanted to create unusual objects that could refer to other realities, which would possess a mysterious logic of existence. My first ceramic figure began as a kind of recreation of an antique doll.

As I carve, texture and mark the clay, a narrative identity emerges. The narrative implications of the work seem to originate as much with the viewer as with myself. In the Tin men series the antique container inspires the character. These one-of-a-kind figures display a richness of texture and hand coloring. Whether suspended or standing on their own, one may discover their personalities, open them up, and even use them to hide small treasures." - Valerie Bunnell