Graphic: The Process of Print Review
Exhibition: Graphic: The process of print review
Venue: The Norman Rea Gallery, Langwith College, above the Courtyard
Rating: ****
The Norman Rea Gallery kick-started their new year’s programme of events this week with the opening of Graphic: The process of print. This exhibition showcases the talents of three very different artists, through the shared medium of print, covering subjects as diverse as conservation and homosexuality. Works include the colourful prints by University of York’s own Mary Greene, a member of the music faculty, whose work is visually representative of the rhythmic sounds of Buddhist chanting. Greene’s monochrome sketches in series capture the spirit of this sacred form of music and the sensation of surrendering to its rhythms. The largest of her works, however, is less expressionistic and more referential to more ‘primitive’ forms of representation; the bold shapes, when brought together, suggest the outlines of obscure and exotic instruments of percussion. Printed in rich earthy tones, the impressions left by the coloured inks on the canvas imitate the texture of a stretched drum skin.
More abstract work comes in the form of Nathan Chenery’s Queer Purple series, tracking his experiences as a homosexual man. While Catherine Sutcliffe-Fuller’s large scale prints of repetitive woodland scenes serve to highlight the exploitation of the world’s limited natural resources.
Curator Amy Tobin has been highly successful in putting together an exhibition of interesting and affordable art, to please both an older generation of Gallery patrons and the ever-changing student body. But Graphic is much more than this, for it celebrates and highlights a much undervalued form of art.
Leave a Reply
Related Posts
Popular This Week
Polls
Loading ...