Kim Osgood

This exhibition entitled Trust by Northwest artist Kim Osgood includes a new series of refreshingly colorful monotypes. Her delightfully lively one of a kind prints spill over 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. Particularly compelling in this body of work is an exploration of composition, through shape, asymmetry, reflection, and negative space. Her developed spatial depth, heightened by her frequent windowed background elements, is further accentuated by subtle renderings of reflections in the foreground. In this show her distinct vocabulary of transcendent imagery and vibrant color is enhanced by a poetic less is more sensibility.