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Kip Deeds at H&F Fine Arts March 13, 2009 Alasktic #2 Alasktic, #6 Lovely downtown Mt. Ranier has one serious commercial gallery: H&F Fine Arts run by Karen Handy and Cheryl Fountain. No decent coffee or food (I care about this because my studio is 4 blocks away), but we got art, and that’s a good thing.  The current show, featuring Tinam Valk, Angela White and Kip Deeds, is said to be unified by the theme of travel and mapping, which I guess it is, loosely, although that feels a teench stretched to me. But who cares, anyway, since it’s the work that matters. In this case, I am particularly attracted to "The Alasktic Print Series” by Kip Deeds. The 15 prints tell the story of an imaginary journey from Alaska to Mexico in text and pictures, rendered in a kind of faux primitive but affecting style. The texts are elusive, punny and just a bit skewed. These pieces make you think about them - always to be encouraged. Deeds, who teaches printmaking at Princeton, has developed a performance using a slide show of his work and it’s easy to see how this series could be effectively adapted to that. Maybe H&F could bring him down for a performance?     < Prev   Next >