Exchange: Else gallery, CSUS

Exchange, Curated by Summer Ventis

February 4- March 6, 2020

Robert Else Gallery, Kadema Hall, CSUS

     Summer Ventis, an art department professor at CSUS, curated this print exchange show. There were four exchange packages on each side of the gallery walls, two print exchange portfolios created by Sacramento State printmaking students and the other two were professional print exchange packages.

     I have been working as a gallery sitter in Else gallery since fall 2019. I enjoy sitting, watching and chatting with people who appreciate the artwork in this gallery. I mostly work on Fridays. More people come from the community on Fridays. For this show, especially, I can watch people discover their interest in printmaking. Printmaking shows are infrequent, and people have less experience with prints compared with other art. Sometimes, I have helped people to understand the meaning of exchange, print numbering, and creating edge of etching. I realized people spend more time than for other shows,  probably because there are many small size prints that have delicate and detailed images that make people walk slower or stay longer.

  One print image from Hodology: Landscape in Motion (3rd photo from the top) : This green hue abstract print was printed on shiny textured paper. Depending on the value of the green color, the texture looked different, reflected light separately. To me the image also seemed to show the networks between people and landscape.

Watching Hodology 2: Transposing Pathway

 

Title of the Show and Map

View of the show

Four print images from Hodology 2: Transposing Pathway

 

One print image from Hodology: Landscape in Motion 

 

Print images from VERSO-RECTO/RECTO-VERSO