Time Is Not Linear Book 2 from the collection of Pyramid Atlantic

Time Is Not Linear Book 2, 2020

Hemp paper, linocut on pigmented flax paper pulp on cotton/abaca base, forged steel

26 x 19 x 5.5 in

$10,800

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Sometimes I am held in the orbit of a place or an experience—the narrative of a site, awareness of a phenomenon or of a moment—and then my hands and materials move together towards creating an allusion to this captivating thing. My preferred mode of work is an unhurried, physical process of making. I regularly draw, I beat and pigment my paper pulp, I print my own prints, forge my own steel—It is the methodology of understanding something about my place in the complex and tantalizing world that I think about all the time. I’m rooted by my connection to the materials I use—the thread of making my own paper links most of my techniques—and also by my intrigue with the facets of science that vie for space in my mind.
In 2016-7 I used a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship to work on drawings and paintings of early human fossils and their ecology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and at the Nairobi National Museum, as well as the Smithsonian excavation site at Olorgesailie, Kenya, drawing from observation every day. Since then I have built on that field study with drawing from observation at the NMNH in the Human Origins Program. Another aspect of my practice, reading about physics and observing some of the physical phenomena we can perceive in our world, informs my work in sculpture and sculptural artist books.

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About the artist

Lynn Sures

Lynn Sures creates multi-media works which examine geology, physics and the origins of humans. She holds a National Museum of Natural History Research Associate fellowship in drawing; was awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) in Kenya (2016); and was a US State Department American Artist Abroad in Sri Lanka (2006). Sures has held residencies at the Museu Molì Paperer de Capellades, Spain; The Pittman/Corcoran Residency at San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM. Her work is in public and private collections including the US Department of State; US Library of Congress; Yale University; Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library; Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy; R.C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA; and Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. She is Professor Emerita of Art and Design of the Corcoran College of Art & Design (now George Washington University, DC). She lives and works in Maryland. In winter 2023-4, Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp, by Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour will be published by The Legacy Press.

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