Sherry Camhy and Silverpoint Drawing

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Sherry Camhy, Innocence, 2004. Silverpoint on gray clay board, 46 x 35 in.

Sherry Camhy’s silverpoint Innocence, currently on view in the ASL window, appears in Thea Burns’s The Luminous Trace, Drawing and Writing in Metalpoint“In her carefully rendered full-length portraits,” writes Burns, “Camhy has explored the soft, atmospheric, essentially painterly gradations of tone that metalpoint can produce even in large-scale images.”