BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220827T180000Z DTEND:20220827T220000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:"Abstracts: A Series of Series" & "Enjoying Regenerative Play" Art Exhibits at the Cultural Arts Center DESCRIPTION:"Abstracts: A Series of Series" by Karolyn Alexander & "Enjoying Regenerative Play" by Virginia Epps presented by Whitewater Arts Alliance\n\nAn artist's statement provided by Karolyn Alexander: I have been creating art regularly for the past 30 years. About 10 years ago\, abstract painting found its way into my heart. Since 2015 I have focused on painting abstracts with acrylic paint\, mixed media and sometimes collage. I work on gallery wrapped canvas\, cradled panel\, and paper. For the past several years I have been working in series. The theme or subject for a series varies for me but the task of creating paintings that are related in some way offers the possibility of exploring a subject or technique in greater depth.\n\n\n\nAn artist's statement provided by Virginia Epps: Discarded paper products such as tissue wrapping paper\, grocery bags\, corrugated cardboard\, shipping cylinders\, and mat board leftovers serve as my primary medium. When working in low relief\, I cut and laminate mat board scraps and/or corrugated cardboard to build the base design. To this structure\, I add loops or columns that I quill from papers I have cut from discarded papers such as wrapping tissue\, envelopes\, dressmaker patterns\, handouts\, or maps. I also add colored pencil or graphite to the assembled low relief. When working in two dimensions\, I laminate multiple layers of discarded or scrap papers on Masonite or on mat board. Once the laminated papers are dry\, I sand the surface and often add additional layers of paper. The sanding and layering process becomes a cycle exposing unexpected random shapes and colors. As a final step building collages\, I either draw on the sanded surface with graphite\, ink\, or colored pencil or tone the surface with acrylic glazes. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
An artist&rsquo\;s statement provided by Karolyn Alexander: I have been creating art regularly for the past 30 years. About 10 years ago\, abstract painting found its way into my heart. Since 2015 I have focused on painting abstracts with acrylic paint\, mixed media and sometimes collage. I work on gallery wrapped canvas\, cradled panel\, and paper. For the past several years I have been working in series. The theme or subject for a series varies for me but the task of creating paintings that are related in some way offers the possibility of exploring a subject or technique in greater depth.
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\nAn artist&rsquo\;s statement provided by Virginia Epps: Discarded paper products such as tissue wrapping paper\, grocery bags\, corrugated cardboard\, shipping cylinders\, and mat board leftovers serve as my primary medium. When working in low relief\, I cut and laminate mat board scraps and/or corrugated cardboard to build the base design. To this structure\, I add loops or columns that I quill from papers I have cut from discarded papers such as wrapping tissue\, envelopes\, dressmaker patterns\, handouts\, or maps. I also add colored pencil or graphite to the assembled low relief. When working in two dimensions\, I laminate multiple layers of discarded or scrap papers on Masonite or on mat board. Once the laminated papers are dry\, I sand the surface and often add additional layers of paper. The sanding and layering process becomes a cycle exposing unexpected random shapes and colors. As a final step building collages\, I either draw on the sanded surface with graphite\, ink\, or colored pencil or tone the surface with acrylic glazes.