Mystic Bridge

Lawrence Murray Heyman

The stylistic imprint of Krishna Reddy and Atelier 17 appears in Lawrence Heyman’s “Mystic Bridge,” an expansive, radiant image that captures the colliding elements of the natural and manmade worlds. A suspension bridge crosses a shimmering body of water, cut through with fiery red and luminescent turquoise. A moon or fog-filtered sun dots the upper left quadrant of the sheet, echoing the fascination with celestial bodies that often appeared in mid-century experimental printmaking - perhaps owing to their natural radiance and the equally natural allowance of such texture created by the use of color viscosity printmaking.