Sev Shoon Arts Center, Seattle Print Arts and Davidson Galleries are pleased to co-sponsor unique opportunities to meet visiting artists in 2009.
Free lectures: Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave S., Seattle
Workshops: Sev Shoon Arts Center, 2862 NW Market St., Seattle
Zha Sai and Karen Kunc – October 3rd: Demonstrations at Sev Shoon Arts Center
Paula Barragan – September 3rd: Gallery Lecture
Chul Soo Lee – August 6th: Gallery Lecture
Kevin Fletcher – May 23rd: Workshop at Sev Shoon Arts Center
Zha Sai and Karen Kunc: OCTOBER
Karen Kuncs work represents her ongoing creation of a visual iconography that is suggestive of nature and derived from travel experiences and her own rural environment in Nebraska. The artist creates ambiguous spatial illusions by juxtaposing elements of shape and color and by creating a relationship between the edges of the paper and the breaking or interruption of the image. In Kuncs work these formal ideas become symbolic abstractions, suggestive of landscape, unusual structures, or plant forms.
Karen Kuncs woodcuts and etchings address the ideas of the eternal forces that shape the natural world as a means to capture a moment, the alignment of chance encounters, the immeasurability of time and distance, and the invisible physical forces at work. She has put these notions into iconic images of creation, preservation, and allusions to human myth and metaphor.
Karen Kunc is a Nebraska native, and currently the Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, where she has taught since 1983. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has taught numerous printmaking workshops around the world.
Karen Kunc. Outflow. 2007. Woodcut. 14 x 14 inches. Ed. 9.
Karen Kunc. Sprawl. 2007. Woodcut. 14 x 14 inches. Ed. 9.
Zha Sai, Intoxicating Shadow, reduction woodcut, 2009, 23.6" x 26.4"
Zha Sai, Passing Cloud 1, reduction woodcut, 9.6" x 11.8"
Zha Sai, Passing Cloud 2, reduction woodcut, 2006, 9.6" x 11.8"
More about Zha Sai: zhasai.net/index.html
Paula Barragán was born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1963. She obtained her BFA in design and illustration at Pratt Institute, New York, in 1986 and has made different art studies in Paris and San Francisco. Her main work has developed in the area of art - painting, printing and drawing - carrying out numerous individual and group shows in her native Ecuador and in the US, New Zealand, and other countries. Her work can be found in the Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador, as well as in private collections in Ecuador, US, Italy and Great Britain.
Since 1986 she manages her own workshop in Quito, where she designs carpets, logos, posters and illustrations.
Barragán has illustrated four children’s books published in the US by Lee & Low and August House. She has obtained numerous design awards in Ecuador.
Paula Barragan. Sapote (Big Frog). 2004. Intaglio. 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches. Ed. 50.
Paula Barragan. Bambusa (Bamboo). 2004. Intaglio. 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches. Ed. 50.
Lee Chul Soo. While Cultivating the Fields. 2003. Woodcut. 16 x 23 inches. Ed. 42.
Lee Chul Soo. Your Way. 2004. Woodcut. 16 1/2 x 26 inches. Ed. 48.
Kevin Fletcher. Contraption for Sketching Method Actors. 2008. Monotype. 14 3/8 x 11 inches.
Kevin Fletcher. Comes a Time in Everybody's Life, You Can't Go Home No More. 2008. Monotype. 15 3/4 x 20 inches.