Summer 2010
:
Volume
25
, Number
1
Helen Frederick is director emeritus of Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Professor and Director of Printmaking, School of Art, George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is noted as an artist, curator, and international project coordinator. Joan Hall's large-scale works, up to 8 x 10 feet, combine papermaking and printmaking techniques using netting and multiple layers of translucent paper with shaped, cut Mylar, which she says gives them the "impression of floating images, conveying deep memory of time." She is inspired by the sea and fascinated by the biological fact that all of us have in our veins the same percentage of salt in our blood as that which exists in the ocean. The works in this exhibition—delicate layers of blue, red, and earth-toned abstractions—are kinetic and magnetic, ephemeral and saturated, revealed and concealed. They seamlessly shift our vision from reality to metaphor and leave us not only with many realms of poetic meaning, but perhaps a new sense of mobility as well.
