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Holding Station-Strange Cargo by Kevin Fletcher
Holding Station-Strange Cargo
Kevin Fletcher
Holding Station-Strange Cargo
Kevin Fletcher
1956 - PRESENT (biography)Kevin Fletcher uses suspended animation seen through an abstracted lens to create a tense, heavy feeling of pause before a storm in “Holding Station - Strange Cargo.” A collection of rigid shapes floats in a dark abyss, perhaps awaiting an unknown destination; or perhaps tossed into the air like so much calamitous confetti. The composition is pregnant with anticipation, or the quiet moment before the strike of disaster.
Fletcher’s abstract works allow for interpretation in their stark, unfettered complexity. He refuses to direct the viewer’s gaze to a conclusion, and in doing so, his works allow for wonder time and time again.
In an October 13, 2007 review of Fletcher's monotypes at 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.”