Facets: on etching

First Friday, January 5, 6 – 8pm

Through January 31

View a spectrum of etching techniques and mixed media prints by Karen Kunc.   Deeply bitten aquatints from her grad school thesis, compare to embossed color line etchings and woodcuts on waxed papers, and to recent mezzotints and small etchings.   All such intaglio techniques capture textures and information “below the surface” of the plate, where the ink is trapped when the plate surface is wiped, and then ink is transferred to paper under pressure through the press.   Each work fits into Kunc’s overarching interest to how lines and gestures are translated and transformed through various printed qualities.   Here her innovative approaches combine  her experience with all print media, her development of personalized vocabulary of color, and challenge scale and detail.

Picture here are (top)Blue Gem, etching & woodcut on waxed paper, 2003;

(lower) Treatyse, artist book of etching, polymer relief, letterpress on handmade watermarked paper, 2017.