Fine Line

This exhibition brings together two artists whose practices are rooted in the tradition of etching but unfold in distinct visual languages. Through the deliberate process of drawing into metal, biting, inking, and pressing, both Donna Volta Newmen and Erika Richter explore how the etched line can hold memory, presence, and transformation.

Newmen’s imagery drifts between human, botanical, and mythic forms and is charged with an immediate intimacy. Richter, on the other hand, turns her gaze toward the geological and elemental, tracing time and erosion across the surface of the plate.

The delicate portrait line of Newmen and the cratered rock surface of Richter show how the same etched process can yield entirely different worlds — how aquatint’s tonal fields might speak of leaf canopy in one case, of sediment in another. Both emerge from manual, meditative practice, grounded in printmaking’s heritage yet continually reimagining its possibilities.