Patterns in black and white and color at Tunnel City Coffee in Mass MoCA
Tunnel City Coffee in Mass MoCA hosts artists Sarah Sutro and Dorothea Osborn for a winter show of ink drawings and large scale paintings through March 2019. Sutro’s black and white drawings express spirituality, humor, ideas and nature with ink patterns created with handmade and Japanese ink pens. Osborn’s work reflects microscopic biologic fragments in macro-scale brush strokes.
The show runs from January 8, 2019 through the end of March 2019 and all work is available for in-store purchase.
Sarah Sutro uses Japanese ink pens to create highly detailed works of ink on paper.
Sutro works in detail, giving a fluid sense of order to tiny ink points, like flocks of birds swinging in unison. “My current black and white ink drawings express patterns and energies of the human and natural worlds, a symbiotic relationship that is always in a tenuous balance,” says Sutro. She was a finalist for MA artist foundation grants and participated in a residency at the American Academy in Rome, among others.
Sutro’s show at Tunnel City Coffee in Mass MoCA aptly represents her clever, highly patterned ink style. “Layers of overlapping ink marks build; sketchy landscape emerges and disappears in a sense of order that is alluded to, then lost.”
Dorothea Osborn works across several media types–netting, tape, feathers and wood provide accent and backdrop to paintings, drawings and sculpture. Osborn’s works can be worlds apart from each other but constant in their employment of captivating color.
Dorothea Osborn works across media to produce works reflecting nature and human relationship to nature.
“Experiences in and with nature are at the forefront of my artistic practice,” says Osborn. “Everything from color, mark-making, layers, form, are a reflection on nature and our current relationship to it… Through the duality of abstraction and representation, the work creates moments of intimacy and distance.”
Tunnel City Coffee at Mass MoCA’s winter art show runs from January 8, 2019 through the end of March 2019, and all work is available for purchase.
