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Vikki Michalios
The abstract prints, “Mind Inside Nature” addresses nature’s process of finding balance in an interrelated system in great need of healing. A great amount of time is spent drawing with graphite, ink, charcoal, and several types of papers including tracing paper, a variety of print making paper, and velum. The drawings are a critical thought process used to translate into prints. Images are carved and rendered onto several copper plates using print making techniques such as aquatint, drypoint, and acid baths. The plates are combined sometimes using four or five at one time to form compositions. The prints are deliberated and scrutinized and altered during an additive and subtractive approach to space, line, form, and color similar to drawing. Forms interact with each other as I aim to effect equilibrium between abstract elements in a defined space. Each composition is built from the last. This is how the visual language evolves and how the process forever reinvents itself. When the plates are ready, I collaborate with a Rie Hasegawa of Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and produce hundreds of pieces and variety sizes.
Vikki Michalios has exhibited nationally at venues including recently at the Center for Contemporary Art, Troy, NY, Denise Bibro Fine Art, NY, NY. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies including Fellowship, Millay Colony of Art, Austerlitz, NY, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Chautauqua Institution, NY and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
