Unsettled Grid Matrix Suggesting a Somewhat Careless Technician

 

Kevin Fletcher

  1956 - PRESENT (biography)

2017  

monotype 

7 7/8 x 9" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

1 of 1 unique 

titled in pencil in lower left; dated 3/2017 in pencil after the signature 

 

ivory Arches wove 

 

artist 

KEFL198 

$500.00 

Fletcher wrote in May 2017: When I begin the monotypes, I don't have a particular goal in mind. My use of tools and an opening gambit will expose a set of possible directions. As the marks begin to overlap in at least three different areas of the ('field') rectangle, one can see a structure surface, gradually come into focus that, by associative memory, bears its meaning and balance. Patterns of light and shadow, elements of water and gases (steam) are introduced to give natural forms a presence again(st) architectonic ones. The collective impact is a memory-based image, suggestive of a place, rather than being dedicated to exactitude and specificity. The speed of execution keeps the result hopefully fresh-looking and immediate, a bit spontaneous. A tension also comes from what some may consider a lack of finish and details. A pleasing result must be 'discovered,' not 'illustrated.' I find the eventual resolve of an image to sometimes defy an exact characterization. It may simply find stasis or climax based on techniques used.