Fluid Media: Hidden Glimmering | Organized by Karen Fitzgerald and Alison Cuomo | Hosted by SHIM Art Network

Press Release

Fluid paint plumes, flows, coalesces; settles. It strikes a chord, sometimes shimmering. When it dries, there are opportunities for more layers. A surface emerges. Each artist presented here has a process that engages with paint, then coaxes the voice of the paint into the work.

The Japanese poet, Basho said, "Your poetry issues of its own accord when you and the object have become one – when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there." Basho is talking about a kind of poetic coaxing of verbal language, but there is a parallel for the artist.  It is when form is found, and given expression too, within the language of paint. When paint is given its voice, that hidden glimmering is readily apparent. Whether presenting itself in the abstract mode, or in the re-presentation of what our eyes are seeing, form born of fluid media has a particular resonance.

The artists presented here each possess their own secret passageway toward finding hidden glimmering. Painting has often been described as a somewhat mysterious process. How each artist finds, and uncovers the hidden glimmering within their visual vocabularies is an intimate affair. Suffice to repeat what Henry David Thoreau said, "We cannot see anything until we are possessed by the idea of it, and then we can hardly see anything else." With fluid media, the pathways to those places of delight are diverse and rich with discovery.

Jill Krutick is showcasing a set of four watercolors on yupo paper called Mystical Mahogany. each piece is 16 x 12 inches.