Kim Osgood

This exhibition entitled New Stories by Northwest artist Kim Osgood includes a new series of vividly colorful monotypes. Osgood’s lively one-of-a-kind prints overflow with playful and appealing elements portraying familiar imagery of birds, flora and fauna, and domestic elements. The work’s irresistible vivacity affected by her personal energy and enthusiasm is apparent in its celebration and elevation of the common object. Osgood’s personality is well suited to the spontaneous technique of monotype, laying out a composition intuitively with oil-based printing inks on plexiglass, she uses an offset press to “pull” a unique work on paper. This new body of works experiments with unique compositional juxtapositions, a variety of still life subject matter that is captured in moments of change, and a rich pallet of background colors ranging from deep reds and golds to more quiet, transparent creams and warm white.