Opening reception: April 21st, 2023 5 – 8 p.m. with an artist talk at 6. The exhibition will be open from April 21st until June 3rd.
Fugitive Color
Tatiana Ryckman Studio Gallery
For the last year, resident artist Tatiana Ryckman has been foraging for natural pigments – in the wild, in the garden, and in the compost. After creating a dye bath, pigment can be precipitated from the water through a chemical process. It’s then washed, dried, and used to create watercolors, oil paints and printing inks.
For her residency with Book Arts, Ryckman has brought inks, dyes, and laked pigments out of their host flora and onto paper. The varied results of this experimentation are artifacts of process and material exploration, an experiment that continues as each work changes in relation to time and new environments. With few exceptions, natural pigments will not last forever. The name for this volatility in the face of light, humidity, and other environmental factors is fugitive.
Tatiana Ryckman’s work is playfully misanthropic, using plant-based materials as a soothing reminder that our time here is brief. In addition to her visual work, Tatiana has been a writer in residence at Yaddo and is the author of the novel The Ancestry of Objects and a novella, I Don’t Think of You, Until I Do. She can be found in Buffalo, NY and at tatianaryckman.com
