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Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca: Recent Prints And Drawings, University Of Richmond Museums
Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca: Recent Prints And Drawings, University Of Richmond Museums
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Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca: Recent Prints and Drawings
January 16 to March 25, 2007
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Introduction
Most Turkish names have functional meanings. By an auspicious quirk of chance, occasionally by determinism, some names provide an apt characterization of the bearer's talents or personality. So it is with the artist llgim Veryeri-Alaca, whose given name signifies "mirage" and married name denotes "speckled" or "spectral." Her variegated pieces, embracing such norms and techniques as collage, lacework, engraving, ebru (marbled paper), and watercolor, wondrously integrate her Middle Eastern (or specifically Turkish) aesthetics with her mastery of Western craftsmanship.
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Leaded: The Materiality And Metamorphosis Of Graphite, University Of Richmond Museums
Leaded: The Materiality And Metamorphosis Of Graphite, University Of Richmond Museums
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Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite
August 23 to September 30, 2007
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Introduction
In a sense it is highly appropriate that a university museum organize an exhibition about graphite. After all, the pencil is one of the essential tools in foundation drawing classes. In fact the pencil is perhaps the most familiar of all tools to students taking their first steps at making art, as opposed to charcoal or chalk, or the brush loaded with oil or watercolor. To others, the pencil and the graphite it holds symbolize the essence of …