Harry Clewans Artist Talk
About this Event
Please join us on Saturday, November 7th, starting at 1:00 pm for an in-depth artist talk by Triton Museum exhibiting artist Harry Clewans.
Clewans’s current exhibition in Triton Museum’s Mathias Gallery, Eye/Hand, “reimagines printmaking from a process of reproduction to one of transformation. Rather than creating editions, he assembles hand-printed and-cut fragments into unique, interlocking compositions in a process spanning hundreds of hours. Each fragment originates with a printed proof pulled from his personal lexicon, a collection of carved blocks built over decades. And each block begins, in turn, with a found object – a piece of birch bark, a ball of rubber bands, a defunct mechanical device – first drawn from close observation, then carved, printed, and catalogued across his studio walls. The result is part cabinet of curiosities, part periodic table: a system in which every element contributes to a larger body of knowledge, accrued over time. Collecting, classifying, and making collapse in an ongoing process of discovery.” – excerpt of essay by Amy Halliday, international curator
This event gives you the opportunity to meet the artist and learn more about him and his work, while viewing the artist’s current exhibit at the Triton Museum of Art.
This event is free and open to the public (including free parking).
Artist Biography:
Harry Clewans is largely self-taught and has worked in his studio in Oakland, California, since 1983. Clewans creates unique large-scale woodblock prints by assembling hundreds of smaller printed images. Exhibited extensively in California, nationally and abroad, his work been awarded the James Phalen Award for printmaking and a fellowship at the Kala Institute of Art and has been collected by The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art, the Mills College Art Collection and the Judah L. Magnes Museum.
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