CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.- The University of Virginia Art Museum presents Monica Angle: Loose Leafs, on view through July 17. Painter, printmaker, book and mixed media artist, Monica Angle has created a luminous body of new work on paper that addresses “my memory of a place or an object as a myth that explains our experience of the world. By focusing on places and objects to which I can only return through memory, I explore how such images become icons in my personal mythologies.”

The ten works in the exhibition, dating from 2004, are all composed of monotypes, hand-printed layers of watercolor ink on Japanese paper, over paintings in acrylic on Rives BFK paper. An illustrated catalogue, with an essay by Minnesota-based curator and writer Thomas O’Sullivan, accompanies the exhibition.

“A colorist and experimenter in media,” notes exhibition curator and Museum director Jill Hartz, “Monica Angle’s Loose Leafs synthesize the artist’s broad interests and technical abilities. These mixed media pieces present an unusual tension: their saturated colors, which overwhelm our senses, are contained within a carefully organized format; they convey a purity and freshness of spirit within a challenging complexity of materials and processes. Regardless of how a viewer begins a dialogue with these powerful and delicate ‘leafs,’ the journey becomes meditative and joyful, restful and refreshing.”

Angle received her AB in folklore and mythology from Harvard College and her MS in geography from Pennsylvania State University; she also attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she pursued printmaking studies. A former resident of Minnesota who recently moved to Buffalo, NY, Angle has shown her work, in both solo and group exhibitions, at university and city galleries in Minneapolis. She has published numerous portfolios and books, most recently “Diminutive Digest,” vol. 1, no. 2, Flying Paper Press, 2001 and “Littleneck,” Minneapolis College of Art and Design Press, 1999. Her work may be found in such public collections as the Walker Art Center, Minnesota State Historical Society, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Library.