Lenore RS Lim
dal 26/11/2007 al 4/1/2008
Segnalato da
26/11/2007
Lenore RS Lim
Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York
Evocations
Paul Sharpe Projects presents “Lenore RS Lim: Evocations” on view at
547 West 27th Street, Fifth Floor, from 27 November 2007 through 5 January 2008. A
reception with the artist will be held Thursday, November 29th, from 6 to 8 PM.
Lim, a Filipino printmaker who resides in New York and Manila, will present a new
body of work based on flower blossoms. Using spitbite, intaglio, and Chine Colle,
she manipulates four plates to explore the diversity of expression found in a
limited imagematic range. All of the prints utilize a combination of the same
plates. The floral motif is akin to a Magnolia blossom or orchid or open tulip.
The first, is a soft abstraction of the fully open flower; plates two and three draw
from more abstract notions of the yet to fully open bloom; and the fourth plate
incorporates the words peace, love, and eternity written in Filipino.
The images were pulled at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Elizabeth
Foundation for the Arts. The images are on white BFK Reeves paper. The works in
the series generally are in an edition of three with several Color Test Proofs on
smaller sheets. The image size for all of the works is 12 x 12 inches and the sheet
size for the edition is 22.5 x 30 inches.
The suite of prints, all produced in 2007, will be featured with a larger body of
work at the Metropolitan Museum Manila in a solo exhibition of the artist’s works in
February 2008.
Lim, who is highly regarded in the Philippines having received a Presidential Medal
of Honor (specifically, the Pamana ng Pilipino Award, for Filipino Overseas) for her
accomplishments in the arts, enjoys a growing audience of collectors in the United
States. Her work is included in the U.S. Library of Congress and the private
collection of Agnes Gund. Ms. Gund penned the forward to her monograph Profound
Afterglow: The Prints of Lenore RS Lim, published by Reyes Publishing in 2005. She
has shown exclusively with Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art since 2002.
Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art
525 West 29th Street - New York