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Allyson Kotarsky - "To wring out an unrelenting tide"

My current body of work draws from my relationship with Donora, Pennsylvania, a town that rose and fell with the life and death of the American steel and zinc industries. Made infamous by a deadly smog that killed twenty people in 1948, my family lived and worked in Donora and the surrounding northern Appalachian area for generations. While I did not grow up there, my inherited memories of the region fuel this work. This collection of printed works explores memory through the labor of repeated recollection. Each print is a record of all the prints before it, and a story for the prints yet to be made. Like memories, the prints are altered by multiple forces, some corrosive, and degrade over time. This particular work was made through the repeated etching of copper plates until the ten frames of the original animation were completely erased. While repetition creates the imagery, it is the repeated care of the process that slowly degrades it. Time is then slowed down and sped up through printed and animated sequences. This passage of time is my family heirloom.

528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition
  1. Florence Alfano McEwin - "Early Snow"
  2. Jill Bergman - "The Night Mysteries"
  3. John Bonath - "Synapse Tapestry #3"
  4. Tonia Bonnell - "Emerge From Black 1" and "Emerge From Black 7"
  5. Taiko Chandler - "Point to Point"
  6. Taiko Chandler - "On and On #117"
  7. Leilani Derr - "Dead Ends"
  8. Alistair Dunnington - "Indoor Games"
  9. Todd Edward Herman - "OTHER ANATOMIES - #03"
  10. Gay Germain - "Butterflies Are Free"
  11. Laura Grossett - "Growing, Unfolding" and "Experiment of Green"
  12. Jim Jereb - "Two Steps," "Meeting," and "Hold"
  13. Erin Jones - "The Ones Who Taught Me"
  14. Allyson Kotarsky - "To wring out an unrelenting tide"
  15. Joanne Lefrak - "You are a monsoon"
  16. Audrey Mantooth - "The Culling"
  17. Alicia McKim - "Hortus"
  18. Deb Rosenbaum - "Hand and Glove #1"
  19. Gregory Santos - "I Suspect Professor Plum with the Rope"
  20. Sue Sommers - "Manna: Empty Vessels 12/12"
  21. Ting Wang - "These Trying Times-Being Chinese in America Then and Now"
  22. Chris Warot - "The First Day I"
  23. Gail Watson - "Under the Gun" and "The Language of Trees"
  24. Mami Yamamoto - "Sometimes Optimism Does Work"
  25. Bruce Zander - "Faces (Spain)"