Posted by: admin1970
on Sep 23, 2011
This October connoisseurs of wine, coffee, and art are in for a treat. On view at the Northside Social’s Second Floor Wine Bar Gallery are over a dozen etchings, encased in elaborate altars or rustic steel frames, guaranteed to put you in the right mood for the Halloween season. Swedish born artist and designer Nils Henrik Sundqvist indulges his viewers in skeleton images, flowers and insects sitting on deadly pesticide molecules. As crucified skeleton bats hang above lit up candle altars, butterflies are trapped in pentagon shaped crown of thorns, and skeletons hand their loved ones roses, it becomes apparent that neither insect, animal nor human can get out alive! Join the artist for a reception on Sat., Oct. 15 , 7– 8:30 P.M. with live acoustic music by Margot MacDonald
Mr. Sundqvist’s newest print series Flores Muertas focuses on the toxicity of commercial agricultural and conventional flower production practices as a real danger to people and the environment. Animals and insects such as bees, butterflies, birds, and bats provide pollination services for over three-quarters of the staple crop plants that feed humankind, and for 90% of all flowering plants in the world. “These artworks are not your regular kind of flower still lifes,” comments printmaker and designer Nils Henrik Sundqvist. “They show traces of commercial agricultural practices — effects no one can escape from.” The limited edition prints portray an old world feel, inspired by the Northern Renaissance flower still lifes which are infused with typographic and iconic messages about toxicity, religion, and the passage of time.
Posted by: admin1970
on Sep 7, 2011
Please join me this Saturday, Sept 10 between 5-7 PM for a reception of 13 printmakers at the Frame Factory in Vienna, located at 212 Dominion Rd, NE, Vienna, VA 2350. All etchings and woodcuts have been printed at Discover Graphics Atelier, located in the Torpedo Factory Art Center. I will have a brand new print on display.
I will have three prints on display at VisArts Rockville in the upcoming print exhibition "Drawn to Washington 2."
This exhibition is The Washington Print Club’s bi-annual competition juried by Christine Neptune, who is the principal at BXP. Inc. and Neptune Fine Art in New York City.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 30, 2011, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Visarts at Rockville
155 Gibbs Street, Suite 300
Rockville, Maryland 20850
Flores Muertas
Please join me for a reception at Northside Social in the Wine Bar Gallery, located on the second floor on Saturday, Oct 15 between 7-8:30 PM. My newest print series focuses on the toxicity of commercial agricultural practices and their effects on the environment. The prints portray an old world feel, inspired by the Northern Renaissance flower still-lifes, infused with contemporary social-political messages.
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