Praise Shadows is honored to present a special limited edition print by Crystalle Lacouture to benefit the Boston Art Writing Fellowship, a program organized between the gallery and the region's most influential art publication, Boston Art Review. The fellowship is a continuation of Praise Shadows' Mentorship Program, which has fostered local talent since 2021. Lacouture was inspired to create a special 3-color reductive woodcut, with 100% of proceeds going directly to the funding of the Fellowship.
Learn more about the Boston Art Review x Praise Shadows 2023 Writing Fellowship.
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Artist Statement
This print is a receptor for good power. It's a sun, a flower, a clock, and a satellite dish ready to receive and emit energy to the viewer. I have spent years looking at the prints of Sister Corita Kent, whose text-filled screen prints literally shout and sing messages of love and social justice activism. In looking for inspiration for this special edition, I thought about Corita’s famous "10 Rules For Creatives” and in particular rule #7: The only Rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.
I created Good Power from All Directions in celebration of Boston Art Review’s five year anniversary and the hardworking team who “work all of the time” for "good power” that greatly benefits the local and regional art community. The yellow and blue featured in the print are shorthand for sun and sky, but have also been ubiquitous in our current landscape as the Ukrainian flag hangs on buildings and houses in solidarity for an unjust war. They are also the colors of the Boston Marathon, which runs by my house and studio. The relief printed text “LOOKOUT FOR GOOD POWER” is a directive to stay open and ready for the good that may come with the noun LOOKOUT intentionally replacing the expected LOOK OUT to give the image a specific place from which to exchange energies.Click here for a video of the artist's process. -
Crystalle Lacouture at her Drawing Vigil at Praise Shadows in February 2022.
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