Local artist Kay Curtis has prepared this exhibit of eight new works to be shown May through June. The framed images are drypoint monoprints with multiple layers of colored pencil and crayon. She uses her distinctive whimsical style to tell the story of life. This rather grand undertaking came to her spontaneously and she claims the events in her life serendipitously aligned with the subject matter.
Curtis explains:
In the beginning of this journey, as in real life, was laborious filled with doubt and ambiguity. As I continued, I sensed more clarity but wanted to understand how to create a formula for satisfaction. I was tortured by a wish to revisit the beginning and re make the early work. In the last three plates I gained mastery and freedom, the completion of these works gave me pleasure and joy. It became quite clear the making of the set became a metaphor for life itself.
The set begins with ENTRANCE portraying all the uncertainty and hope that accompanies new beginnings.
Local artist Kay Curtis has prepared this exhibit of eight new works to be shown May through June. The framed images are drypoint monoprints with multiple layers of colored pencil and crayon. She uses her distinctive whimsical style to tell the story of life. This rather grand undertaking came to her spontaneously and she claims the events in her life serendipitously aligned with the subject matter.
Curtis explains:
In the beginning of this journey, as in real life, was laborious filled with doubt and ambiguity. As I continued, I sensed more clarity but wanted to understand how to create a formula for satisfaction. I was tortured by a wish to revisit the beginning and re make the early work. In the last three plates I gained mastery and freedom, the completion of these works gave me pleasure and joy. It became quite clear the making of the set became a metaphor for life itself.
The set begins with ENTRANCE portraying all the uncertainty and hope that accompanies new beginnings.
The stage called leaving home is titled AWAY and recounts a story about the artist as a child following a flock of birds down the sidewalk
Making friends revisits a circle of friends linked TOGETHER, a Matisse inspired theme.
The current political climate reminded the artist of her time as a youth in the 70’s when people came together to use their collective voice to RESIST.
Falling in love with a muse, be it a person or a calling, she titles ORIGINATE.
Setting up home and creating small children is titled SOJOURN.
The stage the artists claims she inhabits now is BEING where wisdom and acceptance has been gained and there is a knowing that time is not forever.
Curtis struggled with naming the last work that portrays the unavoidable exit but says she was happy to discover it was YES.
There is a flock of birds and Queen Anne’s Lace in each of the pieces.