CAROLŸNNE WHITEFEATHER | Edges
Carolÿnne Whitefeather lived and immersed herself daily in the crystalline waters of Florida's lakes and rivers. Her work and travels across great distances include geolocations and cultures with heritage that engage with water and color as vital in knowledge and understanding for social and material culture.
Edges
Nature Design and Artisan Design hold information, understanding, and communication.
Edges, in Nature and Artisan Design, exist as natural and designed intersections between one space or place and another.
Carolӯnne Whitefeather
Edges pivots to exist on its own from within an artisan collection, drawing on points from Seeing, Observing, and Learning Visual Language in Nature to become a meaningful part of the artisan signature language created in Fine Art Printmaking.
The ee wai earth water collection organizes its art from individual and collective creative experiences and art project documentation. ee wai earth water follows Nature as Rising, Up and Over, Descending, Edges, and Evaporation. As a selected exhibit, Edges presents views into Nature as Teacher, Provider, and the original Designer of Visual Language Elements, and an artist in relationship with their processes and materials.
Early life along the edges of clear water and specific experiences encouraged the ideas that led to Whitefeather’s Innova in Fine Art Printmaking. With. and from projects and commissioned collaborations, information developed as drawn and photographic images as Fine Art held as resource files before their artistic qualities brought them into becoming a collection of their own. Edges focuses on Nature Design and Artisan Design for image, and reflects First People cultural information developed pre-contact and continuing to today. The collection presents an individual artisan's visual signature. It is the character of the signature that becomes recognizable as elements, techniques, processes, and materials become one.
This Artist Signature favors two universal Visual Language Elements: Colour and Light. Together they connect back to the artist’s earliest Seeing, Learning, and Visual Thinking. Both compose Line, Shape, Texture, Time, Dimension, Scale, Repetition, and Variation. What developed over time to become a mastery pivots into the exploratory, with a return to paint as material and process, and engages photography as art and process. Choosing Action Painting, with or without tools in hand, engages paint as a partner in creating language and image. With this, Print, Paint, and Photography form a cohesive portfolio.
No use of AI exists in research, hand-rendered studio, or project records. Printmaking, Painting, and Digital Photography create original, one-of-a-kind works of Fine Art.
Carolÿnne Whitefeather lived and immersed herself daily in the crystalline waters of Florida's lakes and rivers. Her work and travels across great distances include geolocations and cultures with heritage that engage with water and color as vital in knowledge and understanding for social and material culture. Her return to graduate studies with master artisans at The University of Oklahoma College of Fine Arts saw the dedicated program for research and development of an archival fine print system for water-based acrylic inks and redevelopment of the screen-print process for Fine Art Serigraphy. The Southeast Collection became the first and only collection in this Change in Fine Art Printmaking.
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 01 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 04 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 05, 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 06 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 10 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 13 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 14 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 15 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 16 1, 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne Whitefeatheree wai earth water 20 , 2016Unretouched Digital Colour Photography
Canon Archival Inks and Papers
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Carolÿnne WhitefeatherOnGlas 01Toolless OnGlas Painting
Water-based Pure & Synthetic Pigment and Polymer Mediums
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Carolÿnne WhitefeatherOnGlas 02Toolless OnGlas Painting
Water-based Pure & Synthetic Pigment and Polymer Mediums
12 x 27 in -
Carolÿnne WhitefeatherOnGlas 03Toolless OnGlas Painting
Water-based Pure & Synthetic Pigment and Polymer Mediums
12 x 27 in -
Carolÿnne WhitefeatherOnGlas 04Toolless OnGlas Painting
Water-based Pure & Synthetic Pigment and Polymer Mediums
12 x 27 in -
Carolÿnne WhitefeatherOnGlas 05Toolless OnGlas Painting
Water-based Pure & Synthetic Pigment and Polymer Mediums
12 x 27 in
CAROLYNNE WHITEFEATHER | Edges
Opus 40 · The Richards Gallery
356 George Sickle Road · Saugerties, NY 12477
6 August - 6 September
OPENING RECEPTION: 9 August, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Aug - Sept | Thursday - Monday 10:00 - 4:00 PM
Tickets: https://bit.ly/whitefeatheropus40
EXHIBITION WEBPAGE: https://bit.ly/whitefeatheropus40
(Saugerties, NY) CAROLYNNE WHITEFEATHER | Edges, opens 6 August with a reception for the artist on Sunday, 9 August, 2:00 - 5:00, and runs through Sunday 6September, 2026, at the Richards Gallery | Opus 40. Tickets can be purchased at the Opus 40 website.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Carolÿnne Whitefeather engages the oral traditions and natural surroundings of the artist’s youth, immersed among Seminole elders and descendants of European and First Peoples. Inspired by her deep cultural connection to nature, Whitefeather's work in Edges engages with water imagery and color pigments while merging technology and handwork to create multidimensional works on paper and glass. A printmaker, painter, and photographer, Whitefeather pioneered water-based, non-toxic, and archival printmaking processes that revolutionized the traditional fine arts print shop. Starting in 2026, the Women's Studio Workshop offers an annual scholarship in her name for regional artists to attend a month-long residency honoring the artist’s significant and innovative contributions to printmaking.
Sunday, August 9th - 2 to 5 pm. - Opening Reception and Conversation with Carolynne Whitefeather together with Heather Bruegl
ABOUT OPUS 40
Created over four decades by visionary artist and Bard professor Harvey Fite, Opus 40 is a 6.5-acre earthwork made of finely fitted bluestone, rising out of an abandoned quarry at the foot of Overlook Mountain in Saugerties, NY. In 1978, Fite’s widow, Barbara, established the nonprofit Opus 40 Inc, opening the sculpture, along with 63 acres of meadows, walking trails, bluestone quarries, as well as the Quarryman's Museum to visitors from all over the world. Today, Opus 40 offers a diverse selection of events in a wholly unique setting that Architectural Digest has called “one of the most beguiling works of art on the entire continent.”
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This catalogue accompanies the solo exhibition of digital photography and ink/paint on glass in response to light and water by Carolÿnne Whitefeather atht eRichards Gallery | Opus 40 August 7 - Sept 13, 2026.
