William Demaria, Erin Owen & Oliver Stern
William Demaria, Winter Portrait, 27.75” x 16”, etching
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 20, 2-4 pm
After Thought explores overlooked aspects of the landscape with personal significance for each of the three artists, recording emotional experiences as opposed to simple observation.
Demaria attempts to capture the emotions he experiences within the natural landscape using a visual language inspired by Rorschach tests. He is focused on the emotional connection between humanity and the landscape, seeking to preserve his experiences with the hope it will inspire others to value the natural landscape more.
Owen’s artwork, Dreams of Glacier National Park, is a sculpture based on the framework of the children’s game Kerplunk. Rather than marbles, the sculpture contains etched fragile glass balls filled with crude oil, barely held in place, echoing our endangered glaciers and illustrating the dire position of our ecosystem, a consequence of our dependence on crude oil and other fossil fuels.
Stern, native to Pennsylvania, grew up surrounded by the postindustrial landscape of the anthracite coal industry. In this work, Stern records emotions and memories found on a walk along the Schuylkill River to its watershed, exploring places where human infrastructure and the environment overlap and shape one another, challenging and complicating the separation between humans and nature.
Demaria and Stern look to the past to understand the present, Owen looks to the present to understand the future. While all three of these artists have different perspectives on the landscape, they share a focus on the overlooked / afterthoughts of the landscape, which tell the most about humanity and the real state of our world.
About the Artists
William Demaria
Currently based in Baltimore, Demaria graduated with a fine art degree from Cornell University. After working for three years as a master printer at Universal Limited Art Editions, inspired by the artists he had worked for, Demaria developed his artistic practice around monoprint and engraving. He has now has fully devoted himself to the pursuit of his own art career.
Erin Owen
Erin Owen is an ecofeminist sculptor and printmaker, soon to graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Oklahoma State University and currently teaching sustainable art classes at the Fairmont Center of the Arts in Cleveland, Ohio.
Oliver Stern
Oliver Stern is a graduating senior at Cornell University with a B.F.A working in printmaking, drawing, and photography.
Artist: William Demaria
Medium: Etching
Image Size: 27.75" x 16"
Framed Size: 32.5" x 20.5"
Framed Price: $850
Unframed Price: $450