An Exhibition by Kelvin Mason

Sleeth Gallery
West Virginia Wesleyan College
October 10 - November 17, 2006

A show of achromatic vitreographic monotype portraits depicting spacemen of fact and fiction in the stark and unfiltered light of space. The exhibition is an exploration of personal heros, human yardsticks, self-evaluation, failed aspirations and the isolation of the outsider.
The show consists of 17 monotypes printed from a glass plate and a sculpture consisting of ± 140,000 glass marbles. Images are printed 18 x 26 inches with Daniel Smith Organic Black Etching Ink on 22 x 30 inch Reeves BFK paper and float mounted 4 inches from the gallery wall. The sculpture, in the mode of a previous peice entitled "The Perpetuation of Boris Karlof" (2000), this peice entombs the image of Yury Gagarin, first person to come back from space, and an image of the first footprint on the moon, stamped there by Neil Armstrong.