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Fenn Gallery kicks off Fourth Season

Woodbury, CT - Fenn Gallery kicks off its Fourth Season with Spring Fever, featuring monotypes and monoprints by acclaimed printmakers Zemma Mastin White, Tom Stavovy & Nancy McTague-Stock. The show runs from April 3 - May 11th.

A monotype is the printing of an image where a smooth plate is painted with ink or paint and then passed through the etching process. The process permits only one “mono” copy. A monoprint is a hybrid technique, where a print created through any technique is altered after it has been printed. The artist adds color or wipes the ink differently each time a print is pulled. Zemma Mastin White, of Washington CT has been exploring the innumerable possibilities in printmaking, and in 2006 she collaborated with master printer Sarah Amos at the Great River Arts Institute. Her work is recognized for its bold use of color in a nonrepresentational format. Using a combination of collograph, monotype and chine colle, and printing on several kinds of Japanese paper enables her to create transparent layers that fuse with the base layer. The overlapping of transparent layers in Zemma’s work creates texture, visual tension and intrigue, as images appear and recede within the surface.

The imagery in Nancy McTague-Stock’s monotypes offers intimate and microcosmic examinations of nature. Her passion for the natural environment is revealed in her printmaking. She is fascinated by the ability of natural imagery, particularly in close, cropped almost abstract compositions, to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. Nancy is an award winning artist and respected arts educator, and is currently a candidate for her MFA at the Art Institute of Boston in Printmaking and Painting. Her artwork has been exhibited in museums, universities and galleries nationally and abroad. She has served as a Master Printer at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, and is a frequent art lecturer and author of various art related articles.

Thomas Stavovy’s inspiration for his monotypes comes from the possibility of finding beauty through process. Manipulating combinations of oil-based inks of varying viscosity which separate on the paper, Stavovy creates abstract forms to imply narrative and geometric relationships. Some compositions suggest symphonies of colorful cascading circles, while others may resemble overhead views of impossibly delicate and sensual floral blooms.

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