June 27, 2008

Holly Hughes' One Hundred Suns Rose

Vicky Tomayko is a Truro resident who has lived, taught and worked on the Cape for many years. She creates an entirely fictional world peopled by generally benign if charmingly grotesque creatures and living machines. Their adventures are entirely familiar to humans, especilly those, like many of us, groping our way through life. Her printmaking technique is impeccable and innovative, combining watercolor, drypoint, collage, always in the service of making the image more immediate.

Holly Hughes' is a professor of painting at RISD. Her current work comes from a Sabbatical spent in some of the leading ceramic factories of Italy. She has adapted the ancient techniques to create ceramics and gouache paintings that tell complex stories with dense imagery in gorgeous colors and forms.