Master's students exhibiting at Well Street Gallery
March 17, 2014
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Photographers and printmakers Alice Bailey and Karinna Gomez will hold a combined master's degree thesis exhibition at Well Street Gallery in April.
The exhibit will open April 4 with a First Friday event from 5-8 p.m. and runs through April 29. It offers a rare opportunity to see contemporary images made with intaglio printmaking.
Bailey and Gomez are completing master of fine arts degrees at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Bailey's exhibition, “Arctic Entry,” features copper plate photogravures of her film photographs of the Kuskokwim Delta in Western Alaska. Her landscape and portrait photographs depict everyday life in Yup’ik and Athabascan communities, including portraits of elders, strange industrial objects, houses and other buildings.
Gomez's "Nocturnes" includes a number of mezzotints, etchings and drawings. They portray the North Atlantic coast, Icelandic mountains, radio towers and power substations in forested hills, and other mysterious spaces and forms reminiscent of dreams.
The meticulous, traditional printmaking processes lend unique delicacy and depth to the photographic and imagined images explored by these artists.
Bailey moved to Fairbanks after graduating from the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degreee in studio art and photography in 2005. She spent the past five summers working for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game at salmon-related projects on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. The photographs in her exhibition were made during the past three years in Bethel, Quinhagak and a remote hunting camp at the Kuskowim River's headwaters.
Gomez was born in San Jose, Calif. She earned her bachelor's degree in art theory and practice from Northwestern University in 2009. She then traveled on a Fulbright fellowship to Iceland, where she completed a series of mezzotints and drawings informed by winter and night in Iceland.
Well Street Gallery, 1304 Well St., off Phillips Field Road, is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
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