GERALD SCHECK

inscribed visions : Etching, Drypoints, & mezzotints

6 September - 26 October 2013  

Opening Reception: September 6th | 6-9pm

About the exhibition:

Gerald Scheck has had a long career as a painter, sculptor and professional welder with some of his earliest metal sculptures produced in the 1960s.  However, in the 1990s, he was introduced to printmaking by a friend and fellow printmaker and since that time he has created many prints in various forms in his studio in the Catskill Mountains.  Working in various processes of intaglio such as etching, drypoint and mezzotint, Scheck etches on aluminum plates creating landscapes and natural scenes with an eerie realism.  The color tones in his work are largely monochromatic, which recall the work of 17th century masters such as Hercules Seghers and Rembrandt.

Scheck's mezzotint prints push the limits of conventional printmaking methods.  The most revolutionary of Scheck's innovations is in the are of plate preparation. Although mezzotints, invented in the mid-17th Century, are one of the oldest printmaking forms, very few contemporary artists work with mezzotints due to the tediousness of the plate preparation stage.  Scheck begins the imagery process at the outset during the rocking stage with tools and techniques he has invented, to better achieve the desired effects, tonal values and details of the image.   

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