posted by: Garrett Queen
“From the Woods to the Ocean”
A collection of prints, paintings, and artist books by Lana Lambert
Main Gallery at the McGuffey Art Center
201 Second Street NW Charlottesville, VA
June 29th through August 15th 2010
Opening reception with refreshments to be held July 2nd 2010
from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Lana Lambert is an artist from Nelson County who works mainly in woodblock prints and book arts but also enjoys painting. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in printmaking from the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. She has since moved back to her native environment and continues to be inspired by its natural beauty.
Lana has been inspired by the lyrical beauty of the twisting and bending trees of the Appalachian forest and has gone on to translate that beauty into numerous block prints and artist books. She has trained herself in the dying art of Japanese Woodblock Printing so she could capture the misty cloud cover of a spring storm as it lifts away from a rain soaked pine tree in the piece “Diligence is the Source of Empowerment”. Another piece entitled “Arbouricon I” is an artist book bound in oiled wood with the pages filled not with words but riddled with tree limbs and twigs as you leaf through a walk in the forest as your story.
Her most recent work has featured around the ocean and its collection of cephalopods and arthropods. “Drained Limulus” features a massive 36” x 23” woodblock print of a horseshoe crab. A mixed media painting titled “Diatomaceous Stained Glass” features numerous diatoms against a watercolor background cut from a single sheet of black paper. A ghostly squid glimmers on a background of murky blue in the piece “Bioluminescent Squid”. There are also a series of prints that combine woodblock prints of ancient trilobites with letterpress work surrounding them. The piece “Agnostus” is part of this collection. There are even some of the original woodblocks on display so that viewers can see the carving techniques that go into making a woodblock print.
Filed under: Recent Work on June 16th, 2010
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