July 2022 - Ted Braggins

We invite you to Art Gallery 71 for a show featuring the work of artist Ted Braggins
July 8th - 31st, 2022

Meet and Chat with the Artist
July 17th, 10am - 4pm

View from Linwood, Vanderburgh Cove, Ted Braggins, 2022, Monotype, 26” x 34"

TED BRAGGINS

My work uses the landscape as a fundamental source for expression on many levels. The breaking of the traditional picture plane into spaces that can function as pure form while working spatially is vital to the image structure. I like to take apart space and then re-create it in an altered form using line, shape, color and texture. The landscape images that I have been working with are often used as metaphors for emotional qualities and are expressions of personal meaning.

Describing a sense of place in the Hudson Valley, Upstate New York, in the Catskills and Adirondack Mountains or other areas where I have travelled to or lived in is an important part of my work. I believe in a psychological form of landscape that is able to represent aspects of human feeling. I also use solitary images of forms in nature such as rocks, cliffs, waves, herons or trees that have qualities engendering perplexity and contemplation.

The works are produced on paper in a variety of media. Many are monotypes, lithographs or combined with additional print media. All works have been hand printed by the artist, at Pondside Press Graphics Workshop in Rhinebeck, NY, founded in 1985.

To see more of Ted's work: https://www.pondsidepress.com/