2 Jun 2011 ... PRESS RELEASE. May 23, 2011. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Contact: Justin
Gibbens. Telephone: (509) 964-2443. Email: art@punchgallery.
PRESS RELEASE
Cynthia Camlin Glacial Speed
May 23, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Justin Gibbens Telephone: (509) 964-2443 Email:
[email protected] Kill Date: July 2, 2011 Hours: Noon – 5 pm, Thurs–Sat (206) 621-1945 :
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June 2-July 2, 2011 Opening Reception: 5-8 p.m., First Thursday, June 2
Glacial Speed nos. 42-45, 2008-10, 22" x 30" each, watercolor on screen print.
For several years Cynthia Camlin has reacted to icebergs, glaciers and remote environments in work that bridges traditional landscape and abstraction. Glacial Speed imaginatively reconstructs the changing topography of a melting glacier. For the project, Camlin superimposed 80 watercolor paintings on screen prints of a glacier map and created a digital video that connects the paintings in succession. Combining chance procedures with traditional painting techniques, the work imagines water, ice, and earth – from crystalline patterns at the microscopic level to the formation and collapse of immense landscapes. Interpreting erosion, cracking, melting, refreezing through abstracted forms, the project asks how it would look for a glacier to melt, if you could watch the whole process year to year, decade to decade from above. New to the Northwest, Camlin came to Bellingham in 2008 for a faculty position at Western Washington University. Her work has been exhibited in the Austin Museum of Art (Austin, TX), Western Gallery (Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA), the Hallie Ford Museum (Willamette University, Salem, OR), and the Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID). Camlin studied painting as a post-baccalaureate student at Yale University and received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. She has a BA from Duke University and MA from the University of Virginia.
