Patricia Palmer & Annie Silverman at Umbrella Arts Center
‘Canopy Dwellers’, Annie Silverman
Fresh Ink: Explorations in Printmaking
Nov 16, 2023 - Jan 4, 2024
Hours: 10 am - 9 pm
The Umbrella Arts Center
40 Stow Street, Concord, MA
Reception: Sun Nov 19, 4-6pm
Juror remarks & prize winner announcements starting at 4:45
The Umbrella Arts Center is pleased to present Fresh Ink: Contemporary Explorations in Printmaking juried by Carolyn Muskat. The exhibition includes 57 printmakers from all across New England who use a variety of techniques in unexpected ways that push the boundaries of printmaking and speak to contemporary audiences.
Patricia Palmer
In this series from the summer of 2023, I created 300 monoprints over a period of three weeks. Using found and altered stencils sourced from factories, farms, and the home, I explore my family's legacy and its impact on my identity. These stencils relate to the influence of my family's immigrant history and epigenetic factors of illness, health, and well-being. For this work, I purposely chose an expeditious, immediate process, as I was thinking about the pace of conversation and how the materials interacted as if they were part of an intimate exchange in a game of telephone. Each print shifted and changed the meaning ever so slightly. The images formed from the printed stencils and matrices, sometimes combined with chine collé, vinyl, collage, and mixed-media elements, create new conversations that flatten time and space while hopefully expanding possibilities for dialogue.
Annie Silverman
Canopy Dwellers is a lush botanical and avian environment. I am interested in botanical illustration, especially from India in the mid 19th Century, as well as Natural History imagery also from that time period which was created before photography. The birds in this print were laser copies from 19th century illustrations, printed onto Japanese paper, cut out with scissors and painted with drawing ink.