Giving in to a Virtual Cascade of Bad Habits by Kevin Fletcher

Giving in to a Virtual Cascade of Bad Habits by Kevin Fletcher

Giving in to a Virtual Cascade of Bad Habits

Kevin Fletcher

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Title

Giving in to a Virtual Cascade of Bad Habits

 
Artist

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2015  
Technique
monotype 
Image Size
14 1/4 x 10 15/16" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
first of two impressions taken from the plate 
Annotations
titled in pencil in lower left; inscribed in pencil: >monotype (I/II) 7/2015 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white wove Revere watermarked 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
KEFL188 
Price
$750.00 
Description

At a casual glance Kevin Fletcher's monotypes can appear to be photographic, with their rich blacks and silvery grays but, upon further examination, are anything but photographic. Fletcher's images are spontaneous and, after pulling the paper from the matrix, he assigns each work a title, often based on his first response and his active imagination. It is up to the viewers to draw their own conclusions.

In an October 13, 2007 review of Fletcher's monotypes in a San Francisco exhibition, San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Kenneth Baker made the following observations:

"North Bay artist Kevin Fletcher has verged on the topical now and then in his masterly monotypes, evoking industrial architecture - and thus, industrialism - in ruins…. Contemporary graphic art does not get any better.

Fletcher can stand comparison with Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), whose etchings of imaginary prison interiors they sometimes bring to mind. Fletcher has added monochrome tints to several of the new prints, enhancing their suggestions of smoky light."

 

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