On May 23, Bill and Sharon Redinger will turn their living room and dining room into gallery space. Both Bill and Sharon have exhibited their art in art fairs in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois for eleven years. (Sharon recently started exhibiting her art in a Colorado Springs gallery.) This will be the first time they are exhibiting all their work in their home.

BillŐs serigraph prints have focused on wildflowers for quite a few years. His serigraph style reduces the basic design elements of his image, eliminating some detail, so the flower and leaves pop forward. Bill defines a serigraph as an original color print made by pressing pigment (with a squeegee) through a "silk" screen stencil, in this case a non-photographic hand-painted stencil. The word "serigraph" was coined in 1937 to differentiate creative silkscreen work from the more mundane commercial and industrial work of the time.

Sharon has been stuck on painting leaves for ten years. Her close-up leaf images take advantage of bright light in the foreground and dark shadows in the background. Sometimes the leaves are only a vehicle for showing the amazing colors and shapes to be seen when you look close up at nature. SharonŐs watercolor style is described as Hard-edge Watercolor Painting. Each wash of color is left to dry before another is placed next to it. Saturated colors and dark shadows are created by multiple layers of color washes.

The public is welcome to attend this showing at 408 Washburn Place (off the 800 block of E. Gorham) from 1 PM to 5 PM on May 23.


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