Louise Cardeiro Boyer Gallery

“Transformations: New Works on Paper”
E. Kristina Baer: Photographs and Poems
Shirley Loomis: Calligraphy
Ilse Buchert Nesbitt: Woodcuts
“Transformations” is an exhibition of collaborative and individual works on paper by three artists. “I am a gardener and a walker,” Kristina Baer says. “Many of my poems begin in my garden or on a walk when something catches my eye—a squirrel burying an acorn, a little boy on a beach.” “Calligraphy is the art of beautiful writing,” Shirley Loomis explains. “A calligraphed text entices us to read slowly and to appreciate each letter and word as an object of beauty in its own right.” When Ilse Buchert Nesbitt was an art student in Germany, she decided to try woodcut as an exercise. “I had an intuitive feeling for color, but I had trouble drawing. Naturally, woodcut was very educational, because you cannot take the liberties with the knife that you might take with a pencil or brush. You must discipline and simplify your drawing to render shapes.” As it turned out, what began as an exercise became her passion.

“Ghost Tree” Woodcut Ilse Buchert Nesbitt