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"Paperworks" at Pyramid Atlantic

January 23, 2010

There is a little gem of a show now at Pyramid Atlantic, the fabulous printmaking/papermaking/letterpress atelier/school/gallery in renascent Silver Spring. It’s called, appropriately enough, “Paperworks” and the works include a bit of everything on paper, from etching to drawing to cut-outs to photography.

me taking a bad picture of Ress's piece

Beverly Ress contributes three entrancing pieces that feature tiny, delicate drawings and cut paper marooned on full sheets of paper. In less sensitive hands, the elements could easily have seemed random, but Ress combines and places them with sure-handed elegance. (My picture utterly fails to show anything about her piece, regrettably, but it does have a reflection of me taking the picture, which I kind of like.)

Jake Muirhead's Broken Windows

Sikorska's grid

I was also drawn to Jake Muirhead’s work, particularly the etching titled “Broken Windows,” which is appealing in an entirely different way. It’s dark and dense, evoking urban decay, perhaps the detritus of our once-proud industrial infrastructure. Elzbieta Sikorska’s grid of drawings on rice paper hang suspended about a foot off of the wall. I love the drawings of imaginary animals but, I gotta say, the suspended grid format is beginning to feel like a gimmick for her. Time to cut the cord, m’dear.

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