Light Art Space

Dark Spring Press published Age & Seduction: Karen Hymer, which includes a signed and numbered photopolymer gravure print in its Collector's Edition. Hymer's work explores the effects of time on the human body and draws on forms from the Sonoran desert.

The workshop teaches participants to make a handprinted accordion book of collaborative Exquisite Corpse prints. Participants learn to carve, print, and edition a relief print.

Karen Hymer, visual artist and Director of Light Art Space, teaches a one-day workshop in photopolymer gravure printing. Participants create 4 x 5 gravure etching prints from photographs using light-sensitive steel-backed Solarplates.

The workshop teaches photopolymer gravure printing with light-sensitive steel-backed Solarplates. Participants make 4 x 5 gravure etching prints from photographs and learn about inks, papers, wiping materials, and printing techniques.

Light Art Space is celebrating two exhibitions, including The Power of Two: Collaboration in the North Gallery, featuring collaborative work by 22 Silver City artists.

Light Art Space is owned and operated by Karen Hymer, a visual artist and teacher from Tucson, Arizona. Hymer earned a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and MA and MFA degrees in Fine Art Photography from the University of New Mexico.

209 West Broadway was built in 1905 as a hardware store, later used as a department store, and most recently housed Firecloud Traders. Karen purchased the neglected building in spring 2017, and renovations began in summer 2018.

The company is located at 209 West Broadway in the downtown Silver City Arts District, between Texas and Arizona Streets. It shares a wall with the Lotus Center and is the only two-story building on the south side of the block.

Opening Reception Saturday, September 1st, 4 - 7 pm.