Vet Ville c. 1950 - 1951

Kathryn Fulwider made this print, Vet Ville, and it feels like looking at a memory. There's a dance between flatness and depth, like the buildings are made of paper, slotted together to create a town. I love the way she’s used color to create a kind of rhythm – the red doors, the green walls, those pinky-red telephone poles reaching up like veins. It’s not exactly naturalistic, but it feels true. My eye keeps going back to the grey areas, those shadows that feel both solid and transient. They're not just filling space; they're shaping the mood. Like a lot of printmakers she is working with a limited palette and the grey helps to emphasize the more saturated colors. It puts me in mind of someone like Lois Dodd, both of them looking at the everyday world and finding ways to make it sing. And like Dodd, Fulwider understands that art is a conversation, a way of seeing that keeps evolving.