Saturday's Scavengers, Below the Bridge Project

Kevin Fletcher

This monotype by Kevin Fletcher depicts an ever increasing event in weekend America. Two figures pick through the chaos of a bridge construction site, searching for any scrap that can be turned into a little cash. Fletcher often draws on the crumbling infrastructure and its repair as a source for his dramatic images.

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."