Kathryn Madill’s prints
“New Prints,” by Kathryn Madill, at the Gingko Gallery, until September 9. Reviewed by Pat Unger.
No matter how often the joys of abstraction tempt printmakers, the fantasies inherent in language and in the imaginative possibilities of the real world lure some back.
To transfer storyenriched imagery or dimensional, concrete things into black and white is as enjoyable a challenge, it seems, as giving the sign, the symbol and the mark their visual equivalents. In “New Prints,” Kathryn Madill replaces the dots, strokes and curves of previous elemental work with adultlife allusions which she floats' in a space rather like the cut-outs and paste-ups of childhood memory. Her use of the mezzotint technique (a print process of pitting and burring metal, dating from the seventeenth century) also tends to give her work European, literary overtones.
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Press, 24 August 1988, Page 25
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