Eve Biddle debuts elliptical silk-screened archives at Sargent's Daughters

Sargent’s Daughters is presenting Stay With Me, Eve Biddle’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. In this intimate presentation, Biddle’s silk-screened photographs of local plants, rocks, and flowers become an growing archive of her way of seeing, capturing snapshots of place and intimate relationships with nature and landscape. Each is printed in saturated monochrome on an elliptical wooden panel, like windows or portals to particular moments in time. Defined by their labor intensive production, Biddle’s ellipses are silk-screen printed by hand, not machine. The process requires two people pulling ink repeatedly across a lifted, tautly pulled screen, achieving the rich color saturation characteristic of Biddle’s work. Subtle bleed-throughs and moire patterns emerge naturally during printing, creating an