Matt brown moku hanga11/14/2023 ![]() Julian Sheres’ 30-by-36-inch “Morning Mist Rising” draws attention to a tenebrous stand of green deciduous trees with their leafy crowns supported by thin, twisted trunks. While the prints are strong, paintings dominate this exhibition. Brown captures distant mists behind the long, swooping diagonals of the foreground. “Pemaquid from Little Thrumcat” is a horizontally oriented, 8-by-16-inch Maine coastal print of frothy waves breaking onto a rocky shore. Brown writes: “My printing approach follows the traditional moku hanga method of woodblock printing developed in Japan in the 18th century.” If he is technically influenced by Ukiyo-e artists, Brown is also aesthetically indebted to masters of the Late Edo period, such as Hokusai and Hiroshige. The elegant piece presents the blurred image of raw-sienna maple leaves floating on a white background.Īnother printmaker in the show, Matt Brown, created the vertical, 16-by-8-inch “Along Franconia Ridge.” The image describes a pathway receding into the picture plane, which opens onto a dramatic view of the rolling mountains under an orange and gray sky. The abstract photograph is printed on three 11-inch hanging strips of waxed vellum. Jeri Lynn Eisenburg’s 33-by-35-inch “Sugar Maple Floaters” also looks into water. Various involuted motifs of geometric lines of different weights enrich the image. Shattuck’s “Walkabout 1” includes a line drawing of a light-blue bird in profile on a black background, and translucent layers of light and dark arranged like standing stalks of bamboo. Melding harmoniously in the print are a black-on-yellow flower, a jewel-like herringbone design at upper right, vertical lines and diagonal stripes. “Sawyer Key,” titled after one of the Florida Keys, includes rich organic patterning. ![]() On her website, Shattuck says of her recent work: “The monotypes become a vehicle for my experience of looking into the water as I kayaked, observing the depth of layering and seeing complexity and chaos in random harmony.” Her 27-by-32-inch prints with collage elements are graphically bold and chromatically complex. The lively show of prints and paintings ranges from expressive landscapes to nonobjective abstractions. Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery’s winter exhibition highlights the monotypes of Vermont artist Carolyn Shattuck and presents diverse works by 15 additional artists affiliated with the venue.
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