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A Printmaker's Season: New Works by Dore Page
Show Reviews
A Printmaker's
Season: New Works by Dore Page
On View at Breslin Gallery
May 14, 2008, East Greenwich, RI - Breslin Fine Art Gallery hosts A Printmaker's Season: New Works by Dore Page from May 24 through June 22. The artist, who is known simply as "Dore," will be present for an artist's reception on Saturday, May 31, from 7 - 9 pm. This will be her second consecutive solo show at the gallery.
Dore first rose to prominence in the '70s and '80s as a result of her collaboration with Fluxus founder Dick Higgins, who also sponsored the first major exhibition of her work in New York. Fluxus artists are known for blending different media and diverse disciplines, including visual arts, music, literature, and dance. Performance art, "happenings," and concrete poetry are examples. Along with Higgins, Yoko Ono and composer John Cage are among the better-know artists associated with Fluxus.
Although Dore does not consider herself a Fluxus artist, her early work is included in the Fluxus Museum in Potsdam, Germany. And her handprinting technique - a composite of several methods - is in keeping with the Fluxus philosophy. One of the many methods she uses is letterpress, a printing process once popular with small job printers. "I was fascinated with the visual drama of print," Dore says. "Newspapers and old movie fan magazines and early tabloids like "Confidential" enthralled me. The iconic typography of things like Tide detergent boxes and pulp fiction book covers mingled in my mind with typography's finer practitioners like Bodoni and El Lizitski."
Visually, Dore's composite works could be described as skirting the boundaries of pop art, but with a personal or even painterly construct that draws easy comparisons to Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky.
Dore's works on paper and artist books, released under the name Woodbine Press, are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Brown University, the Getty Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Illustration, Fluxus Museum, and University of Rhode Island.
Breslin Fine Art Gallery is located at 187 Main Street, East Greenwich, RI. The gallery is open from noon to 7 pm Wednesdays through Saturdays and noon to 4 pm on Sundays. For further information contact the gallery at 401/885-2340 or contact@breslinfinearts.com.
Corita
We Can Create Life Without War: A Retrospective
Exhibit of the Works of Corita Kent
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March 13, 2008, Providence, RI -- Breslin Fine Art Gallery announces "We Can Create Life Without War," an exhibition of artwork created by Corita Kent (1918 - 1986), who became one of America's most popular graphic artists in the 1960s and '70s. Exhibition dates are April 12 through May 10; the exhibit is presented in collaboration with Inspired Images, a non-profit foundation created to share Corita's vision with new generations.
Corita Kent's career as a printmaker began in the 1950s while she was a teaching nun in Los Angeles. Her work was "pop" in style, and espoused universal themes of love, hope, and peace. In the early '60s, Corita's work took on a more decidedly more political tenor, reflecting her interest in and support for humanist causes including civil rights, feminism, and anti-war activism. Partly because of her increasing work load as her art soared in popularity and demand (as a nun she was allowed little time to devote to her art), partly because of intense pressure from and the wrath of conservative church leaders, Corita left her order in 1968 and moved to Boston to concentrate on her art.
The work is deceptively simple: bright swatches of color interspersed with text. But the verbal play, visual puns and imaginative use of calligraphy and block letters, sometimes in the form of popular slogans, bits of poetry, word or sentence fragments, show a high, yet subtle, level of sophistication.
The exhibit will feature 40+ original prints and paintings from the collection of Rev. Bill Comeau, founder of Inspired Images, who collaborated with Corita Kent in the late '60s. The two remained friends until Corita's death in 1986. Personal
correspondence and memorabilia collected by Rev. Comeau will give a rare glimpse of the artist's life as well as her work. Rev. Comeau will be at the opening reception and will present a gallery talk later in the exhibit.
A selection of original prints, posters, and giclee reproductions will be available for purchase at the gallery. Portions of the proceeds will benefit the Inspired Images and Corita Foundations.
The opening reception will be held Saturday, April 12, from 7 to 9 pm. The show continues through May 15. Gallery hours are noon - 7 pm Wednesday through Saturday and noon through 4 pm Sunday. For more information, contact Breslin Fine Art Gallery at 401-885-2340 or www.breslinfinearts.com.
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