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Essex Art Association Announces New Exhibits

Inside Out, Essex Art Association’s Summer 2016 Open Show, will run from Friday, July 1 to Saturday, July 23 at the Essex Art Association Gallery at 10 North Main Street, Essex. There will be a reception Friday, July 1 from 6 to 8 p.m.

The third exhibition of the Essex Art Association 2016 season is an open show. The juror, Jon Sideriadis, is a member of the faculty at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Old Lyme.

Each season five EAA artists are selected by a juror to exhibit their work in the small “Exit Gallery.” The Exit Gallery artist during this exhibition is Carol Dunn, an award winning printmaker, photographer, and mixed media artist specializing in alternative processes for creating artwork.

“I enjoy working with many non-traditional mediums. I continue to learn and experiment with new materials and techniques. I also like to combine many techniques into one piece, which often makes it difficult to explain to someone exactly how something was created,” she says in a biography provided by Essex Art Association Gallery. “More than anything else in the creative process, I love the interplay of color and texture. I have spent countless hours photographing peeling paint and rusting metal.”

She says when she is working with collage, she has difficulty eliminating items, “because I find such beauty in the smallest scraps of handmade paper, or an old ledger filled with beautifully drawn numbers, letters, and script.”

She uses mixed media, photopolymer etchings, overprinted collages, acrylic skins, printing on handmade papers, collagraphs, prints on aluminum, polaroid emulsion lifts and transfers, linocuts, and monotypes.

“I have a large studio full of natural light, where I enjoy teaching others many of my techniques for art making,” she says.

For more information about her work, visit www.caroldunnart.com.

Gallery hours are from 1 to 5 p.m. daily, closed Tuesdays. For more information, call 860-767-8996.

This information is provided by the Essex Art Association.