Print of the Day!! Tues, April 23, 2024 is by Kevin Fletcher (born 1956): "Quasi-Architectural Lyric Latticework...", color monotype, 2022.

Print of the Day!! Tuesday, April 23, 2024: is by printmaker/teacher Kevin Fletcher (born 1956). Check out our on-line exhibition https://onpaper.art/the-annex-galleries. ?

"Quasi-Architectural Lyric Latticework, Integrating Certain Cloistered Aspects (No 1);" is a color monotype, done in 2022 by California printmaker/teacher Kevin Fletcher (born 1956). The platemark measures 12 x 16 inches. This impression is pencil signed, titled, dated, and further annotated: "monoptype (I/I) / unique print or impression in 3 passes from plexiglas, worked reductively, ??3 versions exist ??on Magnani Pescia" in the lower margin beneath the image. It was printed by the artist in his studio on a sheet of ivory wove Magnani Pescia paper that measures 15 x 19-1/8 inches. The inventory number for this work is KEFL341.

This abstracted, experimental monotype by Kevin G. Fletcher (born 1956) is available from the gallery for purchase. Contact the gallery with any condition or other questions. ?

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Fletcher's images are spontaneous and, after pulling the paper from the matrix, he assigns each work a title, often based on his first response and his active imagination. It is up to the viewers to draw their own conclusions.

In this composition Fletcher creates a world of architectural jetsum, an aerial map with villages or structures joined by streets and alleys? - an abstract musical score?, all surrounded by a border of color. It is as if the viewer is glancing through a plane's window at night as the lights of the city pass by. His title, as usual, opens up its own world of possibilities.

When asked to explain his technqiues in monotype, Fletcher wrote:

"Making monotypes allows for a fairly rapid turnover of ideas since the ink is applied to the matrix directly as in painting, but more diluted down. So, it's somewhere in consistency of pigment between oil paint and watercolor paint, but is also oil based, so it doesn't set-up, can be worked with rags, rollers, chips or spatulas. When I work with the ink, I may have some kind of contextual intention, but it is not typically specific. I often have less grasp of particulars and just carry an emotive condition, often driven by some news items or social observation.

My training in drawing and painting has always encouraged an indulgence of Abstract Expressionism principles of "automatic writing" and imagery that arises from the subconscious. Monotype and mark making can be liberating that way so I dig about and layer up treatments with an open vision, hoping the field, the picture plane itself, yields an opportunity, a foothold. The color prints I've been doing have called on different pacing to some degree, as they are tight in registration and the marks repeated, but they have aimed at a mostly hushed interiority—are approximations of my concern over events around us. I will only say that these prints are a way of my sending out some kind of well-wishing, quiet and modest thought, support for possible good. It sounds a bit na?ve and soft boiled, but that's how it is."

In an October 13, 2007 review of Fletcher's monotypes in a San Francisco exhibition, San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Kenneth Baker made the following observations:

"North Bay artist Kevin Fletcher has verged on the topical now and then in his masterly monotypes, evoking industrial architecture - and thus, industrialism - in ruins.... Contemporary graphic art does not get any better. Fletcher can stand comparison with Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), whose etchings of imaginary prison interiors they sometimes bring to mind. Fletcher has added monochrome tints to several of the new prints, enhancing their suggestions of smoky light."

Kevin Fletcher was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1956. He received his BFA in printmaking and graphic design from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1978 and, the following year, he attended Northern Illinois University for graduate study in printmaking and art history. In 1981, he earned his MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University. He taught drawing, printmaking, watercolor, history of printmaking, and western art history courses at the Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California for thirty years. To purchase this work, see other works, or read a biography for Kevin G. Fletcher use this link to our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/artist/712/Fletcher/Kevin

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