ARTISTS
Alchemy: Works on Paper
Alchemy: Works on Paper features Latinx, Latin American, and Texas-based artists who work in a range of mediums including collage, drawing, painting, and printmaking. The exhibition demonstrates the power of the artist鈥檚 hand and the seemingly magical process of transformation that occurs in the creation of an artwork. The flexible quality of paper, and its two-dimensional constraints, is manipulated in this way to blur the realms of reality and fantasy.
The immediacy of drawing, collage, and photograms find kinship with the multi-step techniques of printmaking and papermaking. In the case of Jesse Amado鈥檚 Machine, "simple" materials such as ink and graphite produce an elaborate three-dimensional drawing. A Bailar, meaning To Dance, by Cisco Jimenez playfully uses collage to deconstruct the human body. The serendipitous process that happens in a dark room to create Cecilia Biagini鈥檚 photograms pair well with the precision of Richard 鈥淩icky鈥� Armendariz鈥� woodcuts, both using negative space to create spellbinding terrain. Margaret Craig experiments with the medium itself, producing handmade paper with screenprint pulp.
Recommended for you
Alchemy: Works on Paper features Latinx, Latin American, and Texas-based artists who work in a range of mediums including collage, drawing, painting, and printmaking. The exhibition demonstrates the power of the artist鈥檚 hand and the seemingly magical process of transformation that occurs in the creation of an artwork. The flexible quality of paper, and its two-dimensional constraints, is manipulated in this way to blur the realms of reality and fantasy.
The immediacy of drawing, collage, and photograms find kinship with the multi-step techniques of printmaking and papermaking. In the case of Jesse Amado鈥檚 Machine, "simple" materials such as ink and graphite produce an elaborate three-dimensional drawing. A Bailar, meaning To Dance, by Cisco Jimenez playfully uses collage to deconstruct the human body. The serendipitous process that happens in a dark room to create Cecilia Biagini鈥檚 photograms pair well with the precision of Richard 鈥淩icky鈥� Armendariz鈥� woodcuts, both using negative space to create spellbinding terrain. Margaret Craig experiments with the medium itself, producing handmade paper with screenprint pulp.
What's on nearby
