Lynn Sures
Circeo I

Media: Colored pencil drawing on artist-made sisal paper

Artist Statement:
This paper that I made of pigmented raw Sisal fiber, along with the colored pencil marks themselves, reference ochre—used by Neanderthals as a red-to-yellow pigment—and also this individual’s own violent death in an ancient hyena den south of what is now Rome, Italy.

Biography

Lynn Sures is currently a Research Associate at SI National Museum of Natural History, in drawing. Her 2019 exhibitions include “Topographies of Life: Rogers, Sures, Watkin” at the American University Museum, DC; and “Pulparazzi: Painting with Paper” in Jamestown, RI. Sures is President of North American Hand Papermakers. She was guest editor of the 2016 Winter issue of Hand Papermaking magazine, on the papermaking of Italy. She directs and leads “Paper/Print/Book,” a summer practice and study trip to Fabriano, Italy.