Preview the new Carrie Lingscheit exhibit
By Julia Berkman
Carrie Lingscheit’s exhibit Momentos is up in the VU gallery right now, and the series of intaglio prints is sure to pull at the heartstrings of anyone, art lover or otherwise.
Intaglio printing looks a lot like pencil or pen work, but it’s very different. The artist etches the design into the paper and then the sunken areas of the paper hold the pigmentation. That means that Lingscheit’s work was all done blind and then filled in after.
Lingscheit’s work, developed as part of her MFA, entitled “twenty thousand moments.” Prints from the series Momentos represent a lens pointed on human behavior and “the malleable nature of memory formation,” according to her artist’s statement.
“We rarely remember neutral moments, only those that register as significantly positive or negative,” Lingscheit states. “I am fascinated by the notion of the gaps left by these absences of information, these holes within the structure of our past and present lives.”
Her work is as interesting in the deep shading of her figures as the deliberate absences of pigment. Many of her subjects are women and children, most embroiled in seemingly irrelevant points of their life, like buttoning up a jacket or walking down the street with their partner.
Lingscheit is part of a larger coalition of artists who work with intaglio/mezzotint. Her work was recently featured in The 2nd International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia as well as Fusion – International Contemporary Intaglio Print Exhibition in Guanlan, China.
You can catch this exhibit now in the VU Gallery until Friday, June 2.