QMP - Pressing Forward - Maypole
Below are two new images inspired by Doris Lee’s prints in the Tacoma Art Museum collection. Quartermaster Press studio will exhibit work in it's latest show Pressing Forward at the Tacoma Art Museum's Cheney class room July 11- September 27, 2018. Each QMP member artist selected work from the permanent collection and created a new generation of prints in response to subject, image and/or print process. It has been an exciting challenge! Doris Lee’s “Maypole" image might appear quaint, her pictorial approach intentionally naive, but the subject has as source an ancient fertility rite and I think her take on the subject a little subversive. Here is a link to her print. Maypole I celebrate her vision and explore the mythic spring rite in “Beltane" (the anglicized name for the Gaelic May Day festival) and again in my monotype print version of “Maypole”. Brian Fisher, "Maypole" Monotype Brian Fisher, "Beltane" Mo...