Prints by Joel Lewitsky
September 8 – November 9, 2008

Joel’s work evolves out of a stream of consciousness approach, and his images are intended to amuse the viewer and provoke thought about the ways we live and interact with others. Joel has been concentrating on printmaking for a number of years. For the exhibition at Betty’s he’s given the term Mono-relief to these works which are relief prints, but essentially mono-types. The process is much like a wood or linoleum block print, but the thin material allows him to cut out elements and apply different colors before placing the imagery together again - like a jigsaw puzzle - before running it through the press. Joel is a resident artist in Buffalo’s newly opened Artspace.