KIMONO SILKS Exhibition Closes January 24, 2010

January 20, 2010

KIMONO SILKS Exhibition Closes January 24, 2010

“Murray River” Australia 31” x 27.75”

The Kimono Silks show ends this week. Sunday the 24th is the last day. I appreciate every person that stopped in across from Saks at 214 King Street to view my latest work.

We are so lucky to have the Charleston community of creative talent and those who attend the events that enrich our lives.

Now my twitters and blog posts will cease, as I work on commissions for patrons, upcoming museum exhibits shown below, and batiks for my book on global warming with Orrin Pilkey will take precedent.

I presently have thousands of aerial photographs that inspire me, 75 batiks on silk, 100 monotypes on paper, and numerous giclée prints available in the studio.

Call for an appointment at 843 762 2594 or email me at info@maryedna.com if you want to visit. My studio will be a gallery all of Spoleto Festival USA May- June.

Terraqueous Silks, Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC, March 9 - May 23, 2010
Seascape Festival 2010, Glouster, MA, July 24-25 organized
by David Coffin for the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
The Art of Global Awareness, McKissick Museum of Art, USC, Columbia, August - December 2010
Our Expanding Oceans, Circle Gallery, College of Environment and Design,
University of Georgia, January 2011

Our Expanding Oceans, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, March 2011 - January 2012, November Art Walk in the Nature Gallery

Mary Edna Fraser

PO Box 12250

Charleston, SC 29422

843 762 2594

fax 843 795 7381

www.maryedna.com

www.deleteapathy.com

A Celebration of the Worlds Barrier Islands

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Mary Edna Fraser Silk Batiks

Mary Edna Fraser has been dyeing silk for 35 years in the ancient resist medium of batik. 'Batik' is a Javanese word for dyeing textiles, traditionally made by layering liquid hot wax with washes of color. The oldest know batiks have been traced back to Japan’s Nara Period (718 – 794 AD). Often photographing from her family's 1946 vintage Ercoupe, she draws from aerial imagery to give a bird's eye view of the terraqueous landscape. She is the first generation to have fast film, satellite imagery and fiber-reactive proceon dyes. Mary Edna's large-scale installations and smaller kimono silks have gained her recognition as a modern master.

Mary Edna Fraser Framed Monotypes on Paper

Monotypes are original works of art that allow the artist to react to color and emotion very directly. The medium of the monotype is a unique form of painting favored by artists since the seventeenth century. Rembrandt, Picasso, Matisse, Degas, Chagall, and Gauguin all explored this medium. Brushes, rollers, palette knives and various tools are used to apply oils on a sheet of clear Plexiglas. Paper laid on top of the oil painted Plexiglas is rolled through a press. Pressure transfers the image to the paper…thus a monotypes. A second piece of paper can be placed on the same, now almost paint free, piece of Plexiglas and run through the press again. The result is a lighter, different original referred to as a “ghost image.” The possibilities are as endless as the imagination. The master printer and artist work together to perfect a technique.

Mary Edna Giclees on Paper

‘Giclée’ describes the fine art printing process of spraying millioons of continuous tone colors onto specialty papers and canvas media. Giclée produces a high degree of image detail from an original digital file or scanned film using continuous tone technology and rendering deeply saturated colors and broad tonal values. Mary Edna has her photography done by Rick Rhodes then they color correct each piece on site. Her prints of batiks and monotypes are on fine watercolor paper in editions of 100.

KIMONOSILKS

January 20, 2010