Kathleen Hudspeth

The culture of printmaking is an important influence on the works in this exhibition. Though many of the works are prints, none is part of an identical edition; Hudspeth exploits the possibilities of the multiple in such a way as to rephrase and reframe visual statements in order to better build an internal language of meaning. Engraving, lithography, mezzotint, etching and silkscreen are used together with collage to both evoke and undermine art-historical traditions. Methods are combined, artifacts from the printmaking process, such as pin and registration holes, remain in the works, the contemporary photo-litho technique is used to reproduce hand-drawn imagery—intentionally without the assistance of digital processes, and media which are static and sticky are used to depict fluid, painterly marks.

Kathleen Hudspeth?“You Subvert Me” @ 2008
Silkscreen, litho and monotype.
Framed, with UV plexi
22 x 30 in.

Kathleen Hudspeth
“Swarm Mélange” @ 2008
Silkscreen and monotype
Framed, with UV plexi
10.5 x 15 in.