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"Pigment" Exhibit at York's Gallery @227
“Pigment” clay monoprint exhibit at Gallery @227 December 2022 - January 2023
Andrew Smith of Visual Realia, LLC will be exhibiting over two dozen clay monoprints at Gallery @227, located on the first floor of the Codorus & Company building at 227 W. Market Street, York, PA. The exhibit will run from Friday, December 2nd, 2022, through the end of January 2023. A First Friday opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, December 2nd, from 5:00 - 9:00 PM.
When hearing the word clay, many think of pottery and ceramics, whose applications go back thousands of years. Texture and color were both modified by adding sand or metal oxides. Pennsylvanian Mitch Lyons utilized both ceramics and printmaking techniques by using clay slips (clay with high amounts of moisture) to create the modern art form called clay monoprints.
The clay monoprint artist designs their work on a slab of stoneware clay (called the matrix) by adding and manipulating additional colored clay in various shapes & forms. When the artist is ready to print, the matrix and the material (substrate) are misted with water, and the substrate is placed on the clay slab. Next, pressure is applied to transfer the image. Finally, the completed print is carefully pulled from the clay slab, hung to air dry, and sprayed with a clear sealant.
An unusual tradition of the clay monoprint artist is to create the new design on top of the previous, allowing elements of earlier works to express themselves in prints randomly. For this reason, most clay monoprint artists create abstract images.
Interested readers can find more information regarding clay monoprints and Andrew Smith at www.visualrealia.com.
“Pigment”
An exhibit by Andrew T. Smith
Gallery @227
227 W. Market Street, York, PA
December 2nd, 2022, through January 2023
M-F, 8:00 - 5:00
First Friday, 5:00 - 9:00 PM
Other Hours by Appointment with the Artist
Evolution of Madness
“Evolution of Madness” — Clay Monoprint by Andrew T Smith of Visual Realia, LLC
The Maryland Federation of Art's Fall Member Show, with fifty-seven artists selected to exhibit by juror Susan Badder, is now open. My clay monoprint, Evolution of Madness, is included. (Shown here.)
The show runs through October 15th, with the gallery open daily from 11 AM to 5 PM. The Circle Gallery is located at 18 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland.
While art is always best experienced in person, the sales gallery is available online.
"Hope in the Balance" at the Maryland Federation of Art
Andrew Smith’s “Hope in the Balance”
Andrew Smith’s clay monoprint, "Hope in the Balance," was juried into the Maryland Federation of Art's Landscape exhibit, running from August 31st through September 24th, 2022. Juror Al Gury, Professor of Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, selected 37 artists and 61 works from 630 entries.
Culture On The Line Website Follows Regional Creatives
A new member of the Visual Realia family is online, Culture On The Line, a curated look at the culture of south central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. I hope you bookmark it and follow its corresponding Facebook page.
Patchwork
“Patchwork” — Clay Monoprint by Andrew Smith of the Visual Realia studio.
The Past just left. Its remnants, I claim, are mostly fiction. We're stranded here with the threadbare patchwork of memory, you with yours, I with mine."
— Denis Johnson
"Patchwork"
Clay Monoprint on Pellon
8" x 10"
Andrew Smith / Visual Realia Studio
The square and rectangle blocks, newly added for this work, interplay with the large central yellow diamond and green and blue diagonal stripes, all remnants (patches) of previous works.
For the new elements, I purposely wanted to utilize my lesser chosen color slips, including siennas, umbers, red iron oxide, French rose madder, French yellow ochre, and the onion skin dyed slip.
Maryland Federation of Art's Spring Member Show
Maryland Federation of Art's Spring Member Show Online Gallery
I’m pleased to be one of sixty artists selected from 427 entries to be part of the Maryland Federation of Art's Spring Member Show 2022, opening today. The exhibit runs through May 28th.
MFA Circle Gallery
18 State Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401
Online:
https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/galleryA/index.php...
Congratulations to Gettysburg artist Jim Mackey for his selection, as well.
“Anthem” — Clay Monoprint on Pellon by Andrew Smith of Visual Realia studio.