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| Title: | Surface Tension: Etchings from the Collection | | Date: | 7/13/2024 - 1/12/2025 | | Address: | Colby College Museum of Art, 5600 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, Maine 04901, | | Location: | Waterville, ME | | Hours: | Tuesday–Saturday: 10 am–5 pm / Sunday: Noon–5 pm | | Cost/Cover: | free | | Web Page: | https://museum-exhibitions.colby.edu/exhibition/surface-tens ... | | Contact Info: | 207-859-5600 |
| Details: | In 1891, the artist-printmaker James McNeill Whistler remarked: “Without acid, there is no etching.” Distinct from engraving and relief—printmaking techniques that rely simply on incising lines onto a metal plate or wood block—etching involves the painterly and deliberate application of powdered rosins, grounds, solvents, and acids to create not only lines, but also textural, tonal, and abrasive effects. Artists were newly empowered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to experiment with the chemical and material properties of acids, mordants, metal plates, and ink which resulted in compositions of great depth and intensity.
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| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Exhibit | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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