CLOSING EVENT:

Sunday, March 8, 2026
1:30-3:30 pm

Readings by poet and essayist Emily Pittinos and poet and visual artist Kylie Gellatly.
These readings have been selected by Olivia Baldwin.

Barbara Owen will release her limited edition silkscreen, Underlap and Overlap.
A limited edition of 20 unframed prints is available for purchase. The prints may be received at, or after, the release party.

PURCHASE

Underlap and Overlap, 2026, Silkscreen, 18 x 24 in.

Underlap and Overlap, a small edition silkscreen was developed alongside the works in this exhibition and extends my use of the grid as a compositional tool. Here, the grid operates as both structure and surface—sometimes singular, sometimes all-over—while shapes are woven through it to create depth, rhythm, and movement. 

To make this work, I began by painting sheets of paper and then hand-cut specific shapes that are layered, repeated, or used as solid forms within a larger composition. 

In the planning stages of Underlap and Overlap, the cut shapes were physically taped into place,  alternating between foreground and background. Some elements slip beneath the grid, while others rest on top, creating moments of interruption and passage. This back-and-forth—between surface and depth, containment and release—became the guiding logic for the final print. 

The resulting silkscreen retains the sensibility of the cut-paper original, translating its physical layering and spatial negotiations into a printed form.  

This was my first silkscreen (!) and was developed and printed under the guidance of Henry Brown at Salad Editions in Providence, RI.” 

–Barbara Owen

PARTICIPATING AUTHORS:

Kylie Gellatly is the author of The Fever Poems (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in Fence, Ninth Letter, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Kylie has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, Juniper Writing Institute, and Disquiet International Literary Program.

Emily Pittinos is a Great Lakes poet and essayist teaching in Providence, RI. Pittinos has received a 2022 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, as well as support from Vermont Studio Center, the Alexa Rose Foundation, and Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as the Senior Fellow in Poetry. Her recent work appears, or will soon appear, in Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day, Bennington Review, New England Review, Poetry Society of America, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere. She is the author of Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone (essays), (Bull City Press, 2022), as well as The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press, 2021), which was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and a finalist for a 2022 Midwest Book Award.

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