Flip & Glow

new work by Rachel Gross

Spill, intaglio print with spray-paint stencil, 2010

May 14-June 12, 2010
Opening Reception Friday, May 14, 5-7pm
Artist's Talk: Tuesday, May 18, 7pm

An exhibition of prints by Rachel Gross will be on view in AVA Gallery and Art Center's E. N. Wennberg Gallery from May 14-June 12, 2010. A reception, free and open to the public, will take place on Friday, May 14, from 5 to 7pm.

Rachel Gross, of White River Junction, VT, received her MFA in Printmaking from Temple University in Pennsylvania. She has exhibited her work in numerous group and solo shows, including exhibitions at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction and at AVA Gallery and Art Center. She also exhibited in the 2009 Northern Print Biennale in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Gross has work in several public collections, including at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH and at the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, NH. She has received many awards, fellowships and residencies, including a residency at Yaddo in 2009 and the 2009 Northern Print International Residency Prize at Newcastle upon Tyne, which she will begin in June 2010. She has served as both a faculty member and Chair of the Board of Directors at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio since 2005. Previously, she taught at the Center for Cartoon Studios in White River Junction and at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia.

For her exhibition at AVA, Flip & Glow, Gross will be exhibiting a new series of both intaglio and woodblock prints, adding a new dimension using fluorescent spray paint and stencils. Her work explores the interplay between two and three dimensions through the suggestion of deep space in perspective drawings and the layering of shapes and forms. Whereas in the past Gross' work has been representational - depicting buildings, interiors and figures in space - this new work is largely abstract, combining geometric elements with organic shapes that suggest landscapes or the figure.