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Movement in Greys - Mare Island by Kevin Fletcher

Movement in Greys - Mare Island by Kevin Fletcher

Movement in Greys - Mare Island

Kevin Fletcher

Title

Movement in Greys - Mare Island

 
Artist

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2002  
Technique
monotype 
Image Size
11 x 14 1/4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
dated 4/2002 after signature, titled, inscribed "monotype (I/I)" 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white wove 
State
I/I 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
KEFL110 
Price
SOLD
Description

Kevin Fletcher uses the crumbling infrastructure of Mare Island, California as the inspiration for this monotype. Mare Island was a Naval Base and shipyard in Vallejo. The base was closed in 1993, displacing 5,800 employees.

After a long decontamination of toxic materials period the base is being revitalized and being used by the community and the public.

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."