KENT, Conn.—Kenise Barnes Fine Art will open an exhibition, “Convert Light Energy,” Saturday, April 26, with an artists reception from 4 to 6 p.m.
The exhibition features hand-painted cyanotypes by Julia Whitney Barnes and drawings by Sarah Morejohn.
The exhibition will be on view through June 8 at the 7 Fulling Lane gallery.
Whitney Barnes is well known for her innovations in Cyanotype (camera-less photographic printing process) paintings.
Her multi-step process includes harvesting flora (flowers and weeds being equally important) and combining several species into a single composition on photo sensitive cotton paper.
After exposing the work to UV light, the resulting blue and white image is carefully hand-painted in many layers of watercolor, gouache and ink, reanimating the vitality to the ghost of the objects.
Morejohn’s fascination with non-linear patterns in nature drives her work. Through drawing, she considers how the relationship to nature is mediated both by objective understanding and subjective imagining of it.
Considering the symbolic connections between nature, the body, and climate change, Morejohn draws partial six-fold symmetries. By building a drawing line by line, sharp angles soften and wiggle, cell-like shapes minnow along while branches and flowers become a part of the flotsam disconnected from the earth.
For more information, contact Lani Ming Holloway, associate director, at Lani@kbfa.com or 860-560-3085.
