Two-person Exhibition: Crawford & Sage at Quad City Arts
August 8, 2024
CRAWFORD & SAGE
Quad City Arts
1715 2nd Avenue
Rock Island, Illinois
August 15th – October 4th, 2024
Public opening reception: August 15th, 6-8pm
Quad City Arts presents two solo exhibitions by printmaker Cathie Crawford and drawing-based artist Whitney Sage. The public is invited to attend a FREE opening reception on August 15 from 6-8 pm where the artists will be present, and refreshments will be served.
Crawford: “The beauty of water and the ever-changing colors of the landscape have been a constant source of inspiration throughout my almost forty-year concentration on the reduction woodcut. Taking a break from my more figurative work with up to 21 runs thru the press, my recent work has been a gradual transformation to a more non-objective approach to the landscape. These woodcuts are a convergence of color, line, shape, and texture in an ambiguous space with whispers of landscape. I have been striving to pack as much color as possible in the fewest runs through the press using blended or split – fountain rolls of transparent inks. I print reductively from one piece of ¼” plywood as a printing matrix on handmade Japanese Kozo paper. I also use mylar stencils to work reductively within one shape at a time to extend the color possibilities, printing ‘pochoir’.”
Sage: “Homesickness Series, Portraits of Home and Domestic Fragments, three ongoing bodies of work I propose for display, focus their lens on the sprawling neighborhoods of Detroit and Highland Park, MI, many rendered endangered and unrecognizable due to generations of disinvestment and abandonment. The harsh erasure of the home within my work represents the endangerment of accessible landmarks of communal memory and history though I am to build connections through our shared protective impulse for the people and places we love.
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