Thu 1/30 @ 5:30-8PM
For the next two months, the focus at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve will be on printmaking when it opens a pair of new shows this weekend.
Remnants will be the first exhibition of work by fine-art master printmaker Karen D. Beckwith as an Archived Artist at AAWR. It will include ten of those archived works, along with some of her more recent work. Beckwith’s special gift is to transform ordinary scenes — apartment windows, laundry hanging on a line, city streets — into images of multi-layered, elusive beauty through various printmaking processes and her distinctive and subtle use of color. The Cleveland Institute of art graduate has been exploring printmaking for nearly four decades and produced work at residencies all over the world, as well as her studio in Cleveland.
In addition to Beckwith’s show, AAWR will open an exhibition of regional printmakers calledbContinuing Conversations: Woodblock to Inkjet. It was curated by Baldwin Wallace University professors Paul Jacklitch and Darlene G. Michitsch, with AAWR Executive Director Mindy Tousley and showcases a gamut of both traditional and innovative printmaking techniques. Artists in the show are Patricia Brett, Max Carrier, Rich Cihlar, Jeanne Debonis, Margaret Denk-Leigh, Amanda DiLisi, Layla Harris Hyman, Dina Hoeynck, Paul Jacklitch, Yuko Kimura, Jennifer Leach, Erica L. E. Lull, Michaelle Marschall, Taryn McMahon, Wendy Partridge, Deborah Pinter, Bellamy Printz, J. Noel Reifel, Lisa Schonberg, Michael Whitehead, Paula Zinsmeister and Jan Zorman.
The shows open will a free public reception on Thursday January 30 and will be on view through March 22.
www.artistsarchives.org/event/remnants/