🧡 Women Printmakers of the East Bay
Orinda Library Art Gallery
Ongoing — November 28
Hours: M-R 10am-8pm; F-S 10am-6pm;
Closed Sundays
Donna W. Brown, Great Grandmother Loved to Fish (screenprint)
You have no excuses to stay home and skip this show. It’s a 20 minute trip by car. It’s free. Oh, by the way, the show is impressive.
Above L2R: Dana Zed, Passage (etching on glass), and Shari Arai DeBoer Science Tarot (accordion book with watercolor)
Below: Donna Westerman Osculation (woodcut matrix archival pigment print with drypoint)
When I decided to check out the Women Printmakers Show, I thought — a lot of linocuts and maybe some woodblock prints. I apologize here for underestimating the medium. There are prints that include watercolors or pastels, prints etched onto glass, hand-printed books, printmaking that manipulates photographs, cyanotypes, monoprints, prints that include collage, drypoint and some techniques that I had to Google. What the heck is pochoir with digital kozo and chine colle? (Yes. There are indeed linocuts and woodblocks, including two from 🧡 Bushra Gill, one of our former Artist Guest Speakers.)
Karen Gallagher Iverson, Gilded Dunes, Bodega Bay in Ochre (pochoir printed and drawn colored pastel on wax on three panels)
L2R: Beth Fein, Momentary Dance (photo etching with digital kozo chine colle); Carol Brent Levin, Power People (reduction woodcut), and Donna Westerman, The Descent of Night (intaglio)
You get the idea. There’s something that you can appreciate whatever your favorite medium may be (unless you make sculptures). Of course, there are no sculpture/print combos featured. However, there are over a dozen sculptures to enjoy outside, on the Orinda Library grounds. Once you have wandered among these outdoor pieces, pop up to the second floor gallery, where you can still savor the show.
Beth Fein, Falling (photo etching with kozo and digital chine colle)
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