Portraits of the Anthropocene

From Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, November 28, 2019:

“Lynn Sures does realistic colored-pencil drawings of landscapes and archaeological finds, including skulls, bones and hand axes. The style is subtle, with rippling near-parallel lines and a narrow range of hues. The artist makes pictures on paper, but also with paper, composing tableaux with … colored flax and embossed pulp. Blurring image and medium, Sures makes art that fuses with its sources.”

From the catalog of the exhibition Topographies of Life, by curator Jennifer Riddell, on my “Tales from the Anthropocene” drawings and embossed paintings at the AU Katzen Museum, DC, 2019: 

“We, as viewers, tend to regard these artifacts as sealed evidence in a way; from a time and place so distant that is it no longer of us.  Sures, through her personal interaction with these evidentiary artifacts, offers an invitation to reconsider our relationship to our early forebears and how we have arrived at our own place in time.”