Mostly Blues

Opening reception: Saturday, September 26, 5-8 pm

Artist-guided tour: Saturday, October 10, 3 pm

Mostly Blues brings together a selection of drawings, fine arts prints, paintings, artist’s books, and works from handmade paper created by Katerina Kyselica whose art embraces structure, chance, and subtle imperfection. The show features artworks that explore the inner state of one’s mind, revealing Kyselica’s playful approach to creating imagery and affinity for a written word.

Demonstrating Kyselica’s range of material experimentation, Mostly Blues presents mainly works on paper, the artist’s favorite material, including Twittering Machine – a series of large-scale drawings on the traditional Japanese Sekishu paper; and Tsunami – a series created by using the process of hand papermaking, done in collaboration with the organization Dieu Donné in Brooklyn.

“I really like the tactile quality of paper, whether I use it as a support in drawing or painting or as a structural material in book arts. I carefully choose the paper I use for each project, for there are so many varieties of textures to work with. I’m also drawn to the sound paper makes, both in drawing, where I enjoy it as I mark the paper, and in book arts where I use the acoustic quality of paper to create sensory experience for viewers as they explore my handmade books.”

Katerina Kyselica is a visual artist, designer, and curator. She received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts in Virginia and a Master’s Degree from Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic. Her works, including fine art prints, drawings, mixed media works, and artist’s books – have been exhibited in solo and group shows at galleries in Europe and the US, including the Print Center New York, Christie’s New York, Manhattan Graphics Center, BBLA Gallery, and Center for Contemporary Printmaking. She has organized and curated a number of exhibitions, such as Celebrating Print and Forgetting Remembering – surveys of contemporary printmaking and book arts. Her articles on visual art, printmaking, and design have appeared in numerous outlets. She published and served as managing editor of the international art magazine Celebrating Print.