Plant Shadows: Cyanotypes by Joan Dix Blair

Joan Dix Blair explored print making through cyanotypes — objects arranged on light-sensitive paper and exposed to UV light or sunshine, to produce images — in her exhibition, which ran from Dec. 15, 2018 through March 2, 2019.

This plein-air process vividly captures the silhouettes of plants, weeds, and shrubs from the artist' garden in the Berkshires. Influenced by the botanical work done in the 1840s by Anna Atkins, who recorded seaweed plants using cyanotype, this form of expression is a natural match for printmaker Joan Dix Blair, whose solo and group exhibitions include Northeastern University's Gallery 360, in Boston, Mass.; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, in Minneapolis, Minn.; and the Washington Printmakers Gallery, in Washington, D.C.

Her exhibition at the Garden brought together a body of work created over a span of two years in her Williamstown, Mass., studio.