Cultural encounters

By Dean Poling
The Valdosta Daily Times

Sat, May 17 2008

— VALDOSTA — Sume-i is a Japanese art form: A painting in ink. The brush is often used as both the expected paint brush but also as pen, as the technique combines washes with line drawings.
Tallahassee, Fla., artist Ann Kozeliski employs this ancient technique with modern sensibilities in her on-going exhibit in the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts’ Josette’s Gallery.
Sume-i ink is a mix of bonding glue and soot. Its brushes’ bristles use the hairs of mountain horses, goats, badgers and weasels. The brush applies ink on rice paper spread across a flat surface.
Kozeliski often applies this Japanese technique to create scenes of her adopted Florida and other subjects.
While some of her works take on the almost lyrical calligraphy of Sume-i, others take on the full color shapes of a Matisse. Ann Kozeliski is an intriguing encounter of styles and insights.

GALLERY
Artist Ann Kozeliski shares Josette’s Gallery with artist Mark Fletcher, along with Invitational Regional High School Exhibition in the Price-Campbell Gallery; Youth Art Month, Sallie and Harmon Boyette Gallery; Valwood School art students’ works, Roberta George Children’s Gallery.
When: Show runs through April 5.
Where: Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts, 527 N. Patterson St.
Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; closed most Sundays and Mondays.
More information: Call 247-2787.

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