Visit to the Studio of Artist Joyce Wellman

Please join the Washington Print Club on Saturday, September 7, 11:00 am for a visit to the studio of artist Joyce Wellman, located in Northwest DC.

About her practice, the artist says, “Coded Messages is how I think about and understand how my artwork ‘works’. My purpose has been to create a ‘visual gateway’ that can encourage a dialogue between the viewer and the work of art. Using the synergy inherent in abstraction, I populate my work with seemingly random numbers, marks, words, and symbols, letters, multiple degrees of vibrant, cool/hot color, and the narrative imagery of storytelling. I want my art to encourage broad, diverse audiences to explore, conjecture, wonder, recall memories, and experience ways that visual imagery can connect us to our spiritual yet universal selves. Using abstract geometry as a compositional structure, and the sacred in art as a ‘content guide,’ I create the magic of a poetic, meaningful, and moving art. My prints are inspired by the work of Khrishna Reddy, a master printmaker and sculptor who, along with artist Kaiku Moti, developed color viscosity etching while at Stanley Hayter’s innovative printmaking studio Atelier 17.”

You can learn more about the artist on her website here.

Registration for this program is limited to 15 people. Washington Print Club members may register for themselves and one guest.

Image credit: Joyce Wellman, Journey Through Migration, 1985, Color viscosity etching, 30 x 20 in.