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By Diana Bird
Special to the Rappahannock News
“One/Off Printmakers,” the group show for May at the Middle Street Gallery in the Tbwn of Washington, represents the work of 28 Richmond area artists of diverse character and approaches.
Half of the works are black and white or two toned, making little or no use of colors. About half are abstract or highly fanciful, while the rest show persons, animals or things. A dozen feature colors, either strident or subdued, and are more or less naturalistic. The members are evenly divided between men and women.
The first thing that impressed me about these pictures is the thoroughly practiced and professional accomplishments of their makers.
Many use several techniques; for instance, one is “lithograph, collage, pastel,” another, “screen print, gouache, collage on rag paper.” Others, however are screen print, linocut, woodcut, monotype and etching.
It would be interesting to hear the artists describe how they work and to find out why they choose to print as they do.
In “What fossils will print,” a black and white linocut, Joan Gaustad has drawn dozens of closely placed lines of many sorts to produce a complex image that is at first confusing to the viewer, until one realizes that die has precisely represented a beautiful fetus in uterus. Once recognized by the viewer, the image is insistent
Chris Palmer’s monotype, “Blue Waters,” is a minimalist scene of a tan beach layered over a blue background.
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