NYAB Event - Chuck Webster “Cathedrals”

Chuck Webster “Cathedrals”

David Krut Projects

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David Krut Projects presents Chuck Webster’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and launch of Cathedrals I-VI, a suite of six woodcuts published by David Krut Projects in collaboration with Master Printer, Phil Sanders. The exhibition additionally includes three hand worked woodcuts, two drawings, and a suite of five lithographs, created in collaboration with Sanders and published by PS Marlowe.

This newest series, Cathedrals, is a celebration of the aesthetic experience of a priori forms. These works are built on the concept of the church as a place where the physical and the ephemeral coexist and occasionally collide. Cathedrals, considers the materiality of the structure of a church – the stone, glass, and wood - as being as important and integral to its history as the hands that built it and the hands that pray within. Webster’s work is best observed through a play on figure ground relationships - where some marks melt into one another while others exist as thick black lines that either hold the ground or break it apart.

Initial inspiration for Cathedrals came from Picasso’s linoleum cut rinses and his collaboration with Pierre Reverdy, Le Chant des Mortes. Later conversations included Terry Winters’ Graphic Primitives and Victor Hugo’s walnut ink wash drawings. References to these works can be felt throughout the series, as can Webster’s passion for experimentation with new processes and combinations of materials.

The processes required to make the Cathedrals suite include letterpressed woodcut, pochoir, paper toning (á la Picasso’s rinses), editionable watercolor, and hand applied walnut ink. The woodblocks used were veneered with white oak, maple, bubinga, zebra wood, birch, and douglas fir. The majority of inks and watercolors were hand-made, mulled from specific natural pigments. The walnut ink was crafted specifically for this project from this summer’s crop of nuts, and the papers were produced by the fourth generation Zerkall-Buetten mill in Germany.

Media

• Drawing
• Prints

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