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I am compelled by sacred narrative in a non-traditional way. I often work with themes of pilgrim... more I am compelled by sacred narrative in a not-traditional mode. I often work with themes of pilgrimage, lamentation, absolution, and transcendence. These archetypal themes flesh out parable and reveal to me the ancient stories, in one case over again reborn, in our current world of dissonance and segmentation. The stories - in all their mythic and consuming drama - are ever played out in our interior lives. Through the work of my easily I petition an otherness. A dialogue begins. The creative act then becomes an Opus Cordis, a work of the heart.

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Constance Pierce received an MFA from the Hoffberger Schoolhouse of Painting, Maryland Found Colle... more Constance Pierce received an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Establish Higher of Art in Baltimore, MD, studying with abstruse expressionist, Grace Hartigan. Pierce has exhibited in NY, DC, CT, OH, PA, MI, MD, MS, AL, in Europe, and most recently in Japan. Her sketchbooks were twice exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Her work is in the drove of this museum, besides equally the Smithsonian Institution'due south Archives of American Fine art (DC), the National Gallery of Art, rare book drove (DC), the Yale Center for British Art, sketchbook athenaeum (CT), the Yale University Haas Special Collection of Volume Arts (CT), the National Institutes of Health Collection (DC), the Georgetown Academy Booth Special Collections (DC), the Baldwin Wallace College Drove (OH), Butler Snow Constabulary Firm (MS), the Henry Luce III Heart for the Arts and Organized religion (DC), and the International Marion Enquiry Institute of Dayton University (OH), also as the Spike Lee Filmworks headquarters collection (NYC) amongst others and numerous private collections.

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CIVA Gallery, Juried National Exhibition (online) , 2021

The ii small figures in the catholic landscape of my monotype reveal themselves to me every bit Dante and... more The two minor figures in the catholic landscape of my monotype reveal themselves to me every bit Dante and Virgil. Dante, in spite of his deepest fears, has willingly followed his guide through the terrors of the Inferno. Now, in the concluding Canto, Virgil begins to atomic number 82 Dante into Purgatorio. It is a a place of conscious credence of the arduous healing of wrongdoing, simply also a place of forgiveness and a hope of the coming Lite. There is no mode back - simply forrard up the mountain. ~ Everything awaits.

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Bearing Witness: Black Bodies Bound and Subjugated ~ Souls Looted and Annihilated, Oil on tin can... more Bearing Witness: Black Bodies Bound and Subjugated ~ Souls Looted and Annihilated,

Oil on canvas (iv.5' x 3.five') Constance Pierce ©

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The artist every bit witness-bearer to the dispossessed and marginalized within our culture, as well as ... more The creative person every bit witness-bearer to the dispossessed and marginalized within our culture, as well equally expressions of the transcendent, specially those liminal experiences where we are entrained past a grace across ordinary perception.

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Yale ISM, LETTERS JOURNAL of Art and Spirituality , 2018

LETTERS JOURNAL Art/Spirituality (verse, fiction, nonfiction, art) Cover: Constance Pierce (... more Letters Journal Fine art/Spirituality
(poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art)

Cover: Constance Pierce (monotype)

Published by Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the Arts,
Yale University, New Haven, CT ~ January 2018

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"The kid … taken away from its parents past people whom it has never seen … finding itself in a l... more "The child … taken away from its parents by people whom it has never seen … finding itself in a alone and unfamiliar cell … ordered about and punished by representatives of a organisation that it can not understand, becomes an firsthand casualty to the first and about prominent emotion produced past modernistic prison - the emotion of terror … The terror of a child in prison is quite limitless … In the optics of humanity information technology should be a horrible thing for him to be there at all." (From a alphabetic character written by Oscar Wilde, Friday the 28th of May 1897) . Drawing in graphite, Constance Pierce © 2019

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Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Holy, Illuminator of Grace, She Volition Heal (acrylic on raw linen) ... more Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Holy, Illuminator of Grace, She Will Heal
(acrylic on raw linen) four' x 5' Constance Pierce © ~

Collection of the Henry Luce 3 Center for the Arts and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.

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This image is offered in response to yet another school shooting, which took place at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018. Seventeen students and staff were fatally shot - and seventeen more were wounded - making this the deadliest school massacre in U. S. history. This horrendous tragedy resulted in "Never Over again MSD," a political action group founded past the surviving students who have expressed, "Thoughts and prayers practise non relieve lives. Gun reform volition."

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Sketching at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Gallery of Art, Sprague Memorial Hall conc... more Sketching at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Gallery of Art, Sprague Memorial Hall concert, and Starbucks on Chapel Street in New Haven, Connecticut. A few final pages were sketched in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. (Media: Chocolate-brown paper sketchbook. Black ink from Airplane pilot "Precise V5" pens with white, carmine, and blue Prismacolor pencil accents, and a few spontaneous left-over collage pieces from past watercolors added in.)

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My monotype is informed and inspired past William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and regards the... more My monotype is informed and inspired by William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and regards the spiritual experience and burgeoning emotions of Dilsey and Benjy while immersed in a church service on Apr eighth, 1928. (One of the greatest, almost complex and mysterious novels of the 20th century)

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Series in progress: Dip pen and ink with additions of white pencil on gray BFK Rives © Constance... more Series in progress: Dip pen and ink with additions of white pencil on greyness BFK Rives © Constance Pierce, 2019. Early on images for exhibition in Japan, 2017.

Published as a Giclee print series: pigmented archival inks on Somerset acid-free paper. (Single images 18" ten 24" and double mirror-paradigm 24" ten 36")

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Pen and ink cartoon done in response to nonetheless another mass shooting, 2015

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I am greatly affected by the wounded and expressionless children of global armed conflicts, likewise as t... more I am profoundly affected by the wounded and dead children of global armed conflicts, besides as the unarmed African-American teens killed past abnormal constabulary in our own country. ~ Drawing is a fashion of begetting witness.

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St. Bonaventure University, NY , February 2011

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This cartoon serial is emblematic. The images are informed and inspired by the spoken epilogue o... more This drawing series is allegorical. The images are informed and inspired past the spoken epilogue of a musical composition (of the same title) past the late performer, composer, and humanitarian, Michael Joseph Jackson. His prescient lyrics call to mind the the essence of Onetime Testament Psalms, as they depict the soul crying out to the Divine for intercession. The images are archetypal interpretations, not realistic depictions. My hope was to embody the emotional tenor of Jackson's extraordinary piece.

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Honour and grace radiated from Senator Clementa Pinckney, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and ... more than Award and grace radiated from Senator Clementa Pinckney, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and all nine who were murdered final calendar week. At present honor and grace radiate from the hearts of the families of the slain and from the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In the face up of abject unpardonable darkness, they speak of forgiveness. They illuminate the darkness and reveal our country'south unresolved unspeakable shame of racism. The thoughts and prayers of the world stand with you lot equally you begin your journey of loss, healing and justice.

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The 9th Art on Paper Exhibition, Obishin Fureai Gallery, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan (Novemebr 201... more than The Ninth Art on Paper Exhibition, Obishin Fureai Gallery, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan (Novemebr 2017) ~ Curator, Ryozo Morishita, Nagoya University School of Art and Compages, Nippon

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I am compelled past sacred narrative in a not-traditional mode. I often work with themes of pilgrim... more I am compelled by sacred narrative in a not-traditional fashion. I oft work with themes of pilgrimage, lamentation, absolution, and transcendence. These archetypal themes flesh out parable and reveal to me the ancient stories, once again reborn, in our current world of dissonance and division. The stories - in all their mythic and consuming drama - are ever played out in our interior lives. Through the work of my hands I petition an otherness. A dialogue begins. The creative human activity and so becomes an Opus Cordis, a work of the heart.

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Constance Pierce received an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Establish Colle... more Constance Pierce received an MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Dr., studying with abstract expressionist, Grace Hartigan. Pierce has exhibited in NY, DC, CT, OH, PA, MI, Dr., MS, AL, in Europe, and well-nigh recently in Japan. Her sketchbooks were twice exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Her work is in the collection of this museum, too equally the Smithsonian Institution'due south Athenaeum of American Fine art (DC), the National Gallery of Art, rare book collection (DC), the Yale Centre for British Art, sketchbook archives (CT), the Yale University Haas Special Collection of Book Arts (CT), the National Institutes of Health Collection (DC), the Georgetown University Booth Special Collections (DC), the Baldwin Wallace College Collection (OH), Butler Snow Police force Firm (MS), the Henry Luce III Heart for the Arts and Faith (DC), and the International Marion Inquiry Institute of Dayton Academy (OH), besides as the Fasten Lee Filmworks headquarters collection (NYC) among others and numerous private collections.

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CIVA Gallery, Juried National Exhibition (online) , 2021

The two modest figures in the cosmic landscape of my monotype reveal themselves to me every bit Dante and... more The 2 modest figures in the catholic landscape of my monotype reveal themselves to me equally Dante and Virgil. Dante, in spite of his deepest fears, has willingly followed his guide through the terrors of the Inferno. Now, in the concluding Canto, Virgil begins to atomic number 82 Dante into Purgatorio. Information technology is a a identify of witting acceptance of the arduous healing of wrongdoing, merely also a place of forgiveness and a hope of the coming Light. There is no way back - simply forward up the mountain. ~ Everything awaits.

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Bearing Witness: Black Bodies Bound and Subjugated ~ Souls Looted and Annihilated, Oil on can... more Bearing Witness: Blackness Bodies Bound and Subjugated ~ Souls Looted and Annihilated,

Oil on sheet (4.v' 10 3.v') Constance Pierce ©

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The creative person every bit witness-bearer to the dispossessed and marginalized within our culture, equally well as ... more The artist as witness-bearer to the dispossessed and marginalized inside our civilisation, too as expressions of the transcendent, especially those liminal experiences where we are entrained by a grace beyond ordinary perception.

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Yale ISM, LETTERS JOURNAL of Art and Spirituality , 2018

LETTERS Periodical Art/Spirituality (poesy, fiction, nonfiction, art) Embrace: Constance Pierce (... more Messages JOURNAL Art/Spirituality
(poetry, fiction, nonfiction, fine art)

Comprehend: Constance Pierce (monotype)

Published by Yale Constitute of Sacred Music and the Arts,
Yale University, New Haven, CT ~ January 2018

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"The child … taken away from its parents by people whom it has never seen … finding itself in a l... more "The child … taken abroad from its parents by people whom it has never seen … finding itself in a alone and unfamiliar cell … ordered near and punished by representatives of a system that it tin can non understand, becomes an immediate prey to the first and almost prominent emotion produced by modern prison house - the emotion of terror … The terror of a child in prison is quite limitless … In the eyes of humanity it should be a horrible matter for him to be there at all." (From a letter written by Oscar Wilde, Friday the 28th of May 1897) . Drawing in graphite, Constance Pierce © 2019

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Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Holy, Illuminator of Grace, She Will Heal (acrylic on raw linen) ... more than Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Holy, Illuminator of Grace, She Will Heal
(acrylic on raw linen) 4' x 5' Constance Pierce © ~

Drove of the Henry Luce III Centre for the Arts and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.

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This image is offered in response to notwithstanding another school shooting, which took place at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018. Seventeen students and staff were fatally shot - and seventeen more were wounded - making this the deadliest school massacre in U. S. history. This horrendous tragedy resulted in "Never Again MSD," a political action commission founded by the surviving students who accept expressed, "Thoughts and prayers do not save lives. Gun reform volition."

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Sketching at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Gallery of Art, Sprague Memorial Hall conc... more than Sketching at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Gallery of Fine art, Sprague Memorial Hall concert, and Starbucks on Chapel Street in New Haven, Connecticut. A few terminal pages were sketched in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio. (Media: Brown paper sketchbook. Black ink from Pilot "Precise V5" pens with white, red, and blue Prismacolor pencil accents, and a few spontaneous left-over collage pieces from by watercolors added in.)

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My monotype is informed and inspired by William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and regards the... more My monotype is informed and inspired by William Faulkner'south The Sound and the Fury and regards the spiritual experience and burgeoning emotions of Dilsey and Benjy while immersed in a church service on April eighth, 1928. (One of the greatest, nearly complex and mysterious novels of the 20th century)

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Series in progress: Dip pen and ink with additions of white pencil on gray BFK Rives © Constance... more Serial in progress: Dip pen and ink with additions of white pencil on gray BFK Rives © Constance Pierce, 2019. Early images for exhibition in Nippon, 2017.

Published as a Giclee print serial: pigmented archival inks on Somerset acrid-complimentary paper. (Unmarried images eighteen" x 24" and double mirror-prototype 24" x 36")

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Pen and ink cartoon washed in response to all the same another mass shooting, 2015

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I am profoundly affected by the wounded and expressionless children of global armed conflicts, as well as t... more than I am greatly afflicted past the wounded and expressionless children of global armed conflicts, as well as the unarmed African-American teens killed by abnormal police in our own country. ~ Drawing is a way of bearing witness.

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St. Bonaventure University, NY , Feb 2011

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This drawing serial is allegorical. The images are informed and inspired by the spoken epilogue o... more This drawing series is allegorical. The images are informed and inspired past the spoken epilogue of a musical composition (of the same title) past the belatedly performer, composer, and humanitarian, Michael Joseph Jackson. His prescient lyrics phone call to heed the the essence of Old Attestation Psalms, as they describe the soul crying out to the Divine for intercession. The images are archetypal interpretations, not realistic depictions. My hope was to embody the emotional tenor of Jackson's extraordinary piece.

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Honor and grace radiated from Senator Clementa Pinckney, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and ... more Laurels and grace radiated from Senator Clementa Pinckney, Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton and all 9 who were murdered last week. At present honor and grace radiate from the hearts of the families of the slain and from the Emanuel AME Church building in Charleston, South Carolina. In the face of abject unpardonable darkness, they speak of forgiveness. They illuminate the darkness and reveal our state'due south unresolved unspeakable shame of racism. The thoughts and prayers of the globe stand up with you every bit yous begin your journey of loss, healing and justice.

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The Ninth Art on Paper Exhibition, Obishin Fureai Gallery, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Nihon (Novemebr 201... more than The 9th Art on Paper Exhibition, Obishin Fureai Gallery, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan (Novemebr 2017) ~ Curator, Ryozo Morishita, Nagoya University School of Art and Architecture, Nippon

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Sketching at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Gallery of Art, Sprague Memorial Hall conc... more than Sketching at the Yale Center for British Art, the Yale Gallery of Art, Sprague Memorial Hall concert, and Starbucks on Chapel Street in New Oasis, CT. A few last pages were sketched in the Cleveland Museum of Fine art, OH. (Brown paper sketchbook: black ink with white, red, and blue colored pencils and occasional paper collage pieces with watercolor strokes added in)

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"Artists with UM Connections Showcase Creative Works" (Academy of MS news staff study: July 1... more "Artists with UM Connections Showcase Creative Works"
(University of MS news staff report: July xix, 2018)

Individuals from unlike disciplines came together in artistic fellowship taught past artist, Constance Pierce.

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This is a media article written past news editor, Anna Gibbs, for the Oxford Eagle, regarding the "... more This is a media commodity written past news editor, Anna Gibbs, for the Oxford Eagle, regarding the "Creative Fellowship" exhibition at Powerhouse Gallery in July of 2018. The exhibition was organized and curated by Constance Pierce who made a selection of 8 of her pupil-artists from quite diverse backgrounds including a retired dr., a University professor of chemistry and biochemistry, a retired business executive, a community developer and grant writer, a man resource banana, a prior radio disc jockey, and a 24-hour interval school managing director who also raises miniature donkeys. All had gathered together over the previous couple years in classes and workshops taught by Pierce through the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council in Oxford, MS. (Oxford is the hometown of Southern novelist, William Faulkner - hence the reference to Yoknapatawpha.)

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"Last summertime, we had the opportunity to host these wonderful workshops led by Constance Pierce, a... more "Concluding summertime, we had the opportunity to host these wonderful workshops led past Constance Pierce, and they filled up so apace that we were thrilled to offer the workshop again this summer," said Emily McCauley, the museum'due south curator of education. "Information technology was inspiring to see participants responding to museum exhibits in new, creative ways." The workshop led by Pierce began in the museum art studio, with participants experimenting with watercolor monotypes and practicing sketching from main drawings. Participants and so moved into the museum galleries to create sketches with watercolor pencils over their dry monotypes. The workshop ended with finishing touches with a paintbrush, and class members shared their works.

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So many artists throughout history accept learned past paraphrasing the works of earlier masters. Human... more So many artists throughout history accept learned past paraphrasing the works of earlier masters. Manet reinterpreted Delacroix. Van Gogh, in his idiosyncratic manner, copied  El Greco and Cezanne'south influence flooded Picasso's work. In the 20th century, Jackson Pollock filled early sketchbooks with studies of principal drawings and the young Grace Hartigan painted her fashion through Rubens and Velasquez.

This workshop offers a take a chance to explore this heady approach in a weekend afternoon workshop in the Museum's art studio and galleries. This two-step process is especially useful for museum sketching because the wet medium is utilized in the art studio before and later the dry out sketching that is required in gallery and museum environments.

Part I ~ Saturday ~ In the Museum'south Art Studio:
You will learn to prepare your newspaper in advance by exploring ways to create delicate watercolor monotypes. Then (while the monotypes are drying) we volition practice "paraphrase" sketching of master artists' drawings while experimenting with watercolor pencils and wash.

Role Two ~ Dominicus ~ Sketching in the Museum galleries:
We will use the watercolor monotypes created the prior afternoon and gesturally sketch over them while viewing works on site in the museum galleries. A surprising synchronicity emerges every bit the sketches combine with the groundwork colors of the watercolor monotypes. To complete the afternoon, we will return to the art studio to add together final accents for accent with brush and wash.

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Paradigm Journal: Art ~ Faith ~ Mystery (Vol. 13, p. 78-85)

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Arts and Sciences Review, St. Bonaventure Academy, NY , Aug 2012

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CLARA: Database of women artists ~ Associated artists: Educatee of Grace Hartigan (Correspondanc... more than CLARA: Database of women artists ~
Associated artists: Student of Grace Hartigan
(Correspondance: Grace Hartigan Papers, Syracuse University Library, Syracuse, New York, Box 23, 1976 - 1992) ~
NMWA exhibitions:
Curator, Krystyna Wasserman, Director Emerita of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center
1. "Sketchbooks and Illustrated Diaries: Exploring the In/Visible"
2. "Artists' Sketchbooks: The Intimate Journeys"

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Alumni Publication of St. Bonaventure University, NY , Sep 2006

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St. Bonavenutre University, NY , 2009

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Yale Bulletin and Agenda , Mar 2000

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Selected drawings and watercolors past Constance Pierce excerpted from "Essences" published past ISSU... more Selected drawings and watercolors by Constance Pierce
excerpted from "Essences" published by ISSUU.com
Publication created by designer/writer, Marilee Childs © 2014

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By review past Douglas Utter in Chicago'southward New Art Examiner Solo exhibition: "Through a Drinking glass Night... more Past review by Douglas Utter in Chicago'southward New Art Examiner
Solo exhibition: "Through a Glass Darkly" (monotypes)
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Dupont Circle Art District
Washington, D.C.

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