Shadows of Loss 2012
Kristine Bouyoucos, USA
| Kristine Bouyoucos,
Rochester, NY, USA, April 2012 In learning about the killings on Al Mutanabbi Street in 2007, it became my desire to honour those who lost their lives. They kept appearing like ghosts before my eyes, like shadows. I wanted their names to be put on paper as an eternal reminder that they were here and that they had mattered. That they were not forgotten. Their lives and their names opened my heart to a different culture, for which I am grateful... There are twenty-eight shadow people in these pages, one for each killed. Their names appear on the back of each page. The last page has a reddish background to remind us of the more than a hundred wounded... Kristine Bouyoucos was born and brought up in Norway, where she graduated from Gymnasium before going to the US. She later got a BS degree from Empire State College, followed by Printmaking courses at Rochester Institute of Technology at the School of the Arts. In addition to numerous juried exhibits throughout the US, her work has been shown in Lima, Peru and Melbourne, Australia. Solo Exhibits include Arts and Cultural Council in Rochester, NY, 2008 and Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington, 2001. Travelling exhibition with the NY Society for Etchers, 2008: Loyola College, Chicago, Illinois; The Paramount Center of the Arts, Peekskills, NY; The National Arts Club, NYC She lives and works in Rochester, NY. Kristine's studio contains every tool for cutting edge printmaking and for the creation of artists' books. Her work was recently purchased for the permanent collection of the Memorial Art Museum in Rochester, NY. 7 x 7 inches in size, in the concertina (accordion) style, created with digital images made from original mixed media monotypes. Text printed from photo polymer plates in Papyrus typeface on Rives BFK paper. Cover, cyanotype by the artist. bcos@sprintmail.com http://ktbprintmaker.com |