The AMG Summer Project Invites Participation
The AMG Summer Project every year brings the public into the sculpture garden and art center to become a participant in the making of at. The 2015 AMG summer project adds a special caveat. Visitors to Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in Solomons will have the chance this summer to be part of an art project that will last for years at the center.
The 2015 Summer Public Art Project, created by Kevin Sudeith, is titled Modern Petroglyphs. The exhibit will run through Aug. 30, 2015. Join the project from 10 am to 4 pm daily and participation is included with price of site admission.
Mr. Sudeith, the center’s Artist-In-Residence, will make stone carvings featuring images drawn from the local community, combined with secondary images of aerospace themes. Mr. Sudeith will then make prints from the carvings while encouraging visitors to also make their own prints. The three carved rocks will stay at the center when they’re finished.
The prints will document the carvings and allow people who are not at the center to see the work.
“The prints are an integral part of the conceptual form of my work,” said Mr. Sudeith. “The spatial relationship between the stone and a sheet of paper is part of the form of the piece. Though the prints are made from archival materials, compared to the rock, they are ephemeral. Similarly my own physical presence is ephemeral compared to the life of the carved rock.”
Once the printmaking has been competed, Mr. Sudeith will paint and varnish the works. The colors are lightfast and archival is possible, but compared to the rock, they are ephemeral, lasting only a short time.
