Fri 8/12 @ 5-9PM
Bellamy Printz is a mainstay of Cleveland’s print maker community, as an artist as well as an organizer and catalyst. She was one of the co-founders of Zygote Press back in the 1900s and currently has her own gallery/workshop Deep Dive Art Projects, in the Waterloo Arts District, where shares the work of other artists in her upstairs gallery.
Now it’s time for her to showcase her own work again, in Mnemonic Devices, opening this week at BAYarts. The show expands on a theme she’s been working on for a while: exploring her own history through images based on family photos, which are altered through printmaking processes and watercolor painting to evoke the evanescence of memory and its shifting meanings.
She says the show features new work that “explores the power of sensory memory stimulators. Mnemonic devices work both as ways to remember through language and sensations — smell, tastes, touch, sound. Here, the family and found photographs from my personal collection recall specific universal summer experiences. Through the meditative process of navigating the imagery, I find hidden moments that result in a variety of works on paper.”
The show opens with a reception featuring music by Alla Boara starting at 7pm and remains on view through October 8.
https://bayarts.net/events/bellamy-printz-mnemonic-devices/