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INTRODUCTION TO ETCHING
Theodora Varnay Jones

Class #5: Sundays, January 13, 20, 27 & February 3, 11-5pm
Tuition $360  Materials $80  Total Cost $440

Image: Slippage – I, Theodora Varnay Jones, Color etching with chine colle

An accessible introduction to the versatile intaglio process, with a focus on hands-on learning and experimentation. The class will cover all aspects of etching, from plate preparation to final presentation of an edition of prints. Topics covered include hard ground, soft ground, sugar-lift, deep etching, aquatint, and chine colle.Enrollment is limited to 7 students

Theodora Varnay Jones received her BFA and MFA from The Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary. Her prints have received numerous awards from museums, universities and other institutions throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. She has recently exhibited at Fresno Art Museum, Don Soker Gallery, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, and SFMOMA Artists Gallery. She has lectured and taught at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Kyoto Seika University in Japan, and at UC Davis. www.donsokergallery.com

 

Zero1 Biennial "The Future Imagined What's Next"
PAI San Francisco, CA
November 9-January 15 2013

Test Negative

2012

Installation

I.   Novartis-2

II.  Novartis-3

III. Novartis +UCSF

“… all these layers of meaning and form, of visibility and invisibility lie in one another, on or under one another, before or behind one another; but the truth of this relation is never established, never stabilized in any judgment. “

                          Jacques Derrida- Psyche Inventions of the Other Vol 2

The interrelated pieces of the installation are structures constructed of discarded objects from the research laboratories of Novartis, images of these individual objects and their sections, and images from breast cancer research conducted at UCSF.

Each piece draws on one of its elements as the resource for the others.

In a row, successive translucent and opaque objects are stacked on top of each other creating layers through which the video images radiate from the bottom.

The tension created this way is between the layers, between clarity and obscurity, between object (material) and image (optical appearance). While the objects provide a solid, static structure the images are pulsating, changing and moving forward.

Neither the objects nor images have been altered or manipulated from their original states, but rather, systematically and deliberately combined into a new whole.

Theodora Varnay Jones

Penny Olson

The video portion of the piece can be seen online at http://www.pennyolson.com

Special thanks to Rosa Anna DeFilippis UCSF

Installation View-1

Installation View-2

2012 “Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance,” SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

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in H2O
group Exhibition at Don Soker Gallery 

New intaglio prints produced in 2011.