For Immediate Release January 11, 2024
Media Contact: Kate Taylor Davis | 202-321-2878 | ktdavis@pyramid-atlantic.org
CATALUNYA
Works in Colored Pulp by Lynn Sures
Hyattsville, MD – Rugged shapes and rich earth tones set in pulp fill the gallery in CATALUNYA. Sures’ inspiration for this series in colored pulp was Spain’s multi-peaked mountain range, Montserrat. Five of her large-scale works and 20 smaller, embossed pieces are on view at Pyramid Atlantic.
The exhibition is FREE and open to the public starting January 12, 2024. An Artist Reception will be held on January 26th from 6-8 pm. RSVPs requested. The exhibition runs through February 18, 2024 in Pyramid’s Helen C. Frederick Gallery. Gallery hours are Wed–Thu, 10–8 pm and Fri–Sun, 10–6 pm. Pyramid is located at 4318 Gallatin Street, Hyattsville, Maryland 20781. For more information and an RSVP link, visit pyramidatlantic.org or call 301-608-9101.
Sures created this series overseas during an artist residency. She prepped her materials in the US and shipped them to Europe before she even considered the mountain range as a subject. “Montserrat is a gigantic, imposing, animated presence. I was aware of Montserrat in that vaguest of ways, but was unprepared for the happenstance of driving by it with my Catalonian host,” shared Sures.
That happenstance resulted in 5 large-scale pieces made in Catalonia from Sures’ different vantage points at the foot of the mountain. After those were complete, she traversed the mountain range further by car and foot, leading to an additional 20 smaller embossed pulp paintings. “I was able to carry the mountain out of Catalonia with me.” Working in pulp is relatively rare, but Sures has been doing it for over 25 years. Pulp painting involves pigmenting paper pulp and then painting with it on a wet base of handmade paper. In the case of the works in CATALUNYA, this process creates a very rich, thick physical presence apropos to the subject matter.
Lynn Sures creates multi-media works that examine geology, physics and the origins of humans. She holds a National Museum of Natural History Research Associate fellowship in drawing; was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) in Kenya (2016); and was a US State Department American Artist Abroad in Sri Lanka (2006). Sures has held residencies at the Museu Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain; The Pittman/Corcoran Residency at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM. Her work is in public and private collections including the US Department of State; US Library of Congress; Yale University; Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library; Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy; R.C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA; and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. She is Professor Emerita of Art and Design of the Corcoran College of Art & Design (now George Washington University, DC). She lives and works in Maryland. In winter 2023-4, Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp, by Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour will be published by The Legacy Press. Sures was able to make the work in Catalunya with the support of Museu Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain and The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, MD.
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Image: Montserrat Silver 4. Pigmented flax pulp painting, 32 x 24 in. Additional images available upon request.
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