I recently shipped my work to the Really Big Print Show at the Cheltenham Centre for the Arts. One of my large silkscreens will be getting all up in the business of some other giant prints and battling it out for print supremacy. Or probably just hanging out with other prints being all awesome. Opens September 15th!
Collapsed Distance
(silkscreen, 44″ x 30″)
I’ve begun working on some new pieces that examine my experiences living with MS and inflammatory arthritis. While I am lucky that my disease is so far on the mild end of the spectrum, it has nonetheless shaped me and brought me into contact with drugs and aspects of medical practice that are outside the experience of many people. I seek to bring my own adventures to light and examine them within the greater context of contemporary medicine. To start, I’ve created some small etchings that touch on the internally sensed aspect of my illnesses. Find new works under my The Body, Stranger page under the Artworks header.
Sensory Limitation (Etching and Chine Colle) 4 1/2″ x 3 3/4″
My work is on thePeople of Print website directory. The site is worth a visit as you can spend hours snooping through links to all kinds of artists and studios from fine art to commercial whose work relates to print in some way.
I was invited by Herman Noordermeer to participate in this year’s Global Print in Alijo Portugal. The show opens on August 31st and runs until October 30th.
My work was accepted into Shy Rabbit’s 4th Print International exhibition in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The juror was Michael Kruger and the exhibition includes fellow Canadian Briar Craig amongst the exhibiting artists. The show opens on July 28th and runs until September 7th.
I recently completed a small suite of prints inspired by a recent trip to Turkey. I was struck by the depth of history in the country as it seemed you couldn’t walk a block without tripping on seven layers of magical wonders from great civilizations of the past. A visit to the Cappadocia region revealed caves and churches built into a surreal landscape of spires and cliffs where Byzantinians and later Christians hid from persecution. As a tourist, we were shown the bright sides of life in Turkey and we were humbled upon our return to see that areas we walked through just days before were now full of protesters and police. You never really get to know a country just roaming through it for a few weeks but it can definitely leave an impression that lingers beyond the visit.
Overwritten (silkscreen) 11″ x 15″
Soft Surfacing (silkscreen) 15″ x 11″
Lost Texts Readable (silkscreen)11″ x 15″
Renaming the New (Silkscreen) 11″ x 15″
Lots of exhibitions on the go this summer! My work is still at Red Delicious Press for the Water on Paper exhibition. I am participating in the 12th Lessedra World Art Print Annual in Bulgaria and the 33rd Miniprint of Cadaques in Spain both for the second time. They are large miniprint exhibitions that take place each year. I am also showing work for the first time in New York and have a piece in the Manhattan Graphics Center’s 3rd Annual Printmaking Juried Show. The juror is Roberta Waddell, Curator of Prints Emerita, New York Public Library. Go go prints to places that I’ve never been! (and bring back cake or some sort of local treat).
Printeresting is one of my favourite printmaking sites and I was thrilled that they recently accepted an article that I wrote about the 8th Biennial International d’Estampe Contemporain de Trois Rivieres (BIECTR). Back in November, I was invited to be part of the jury, an intensive three-day process that was an awesome opportunity to dialogue about amazing prints (in French no less) and I wanted to visit the exhibition once it was up. In June I attended the opening of the exhibition which sprawls across four venues. Its a great selection of works by some amazing artists from around the world. You can read my article here: Trois-Rivieres Survey
Over a year ago I was pleased to have my work selected for Global Matrix III, a travelling print exhibition that started at Purdue University Galleries. The exhibition showed up at Wright State University’s Robert and Elaine Stein’s Galleries in Dayton, Ohio in late 2012 after having moseyed around the US for the past year. An article about the exhibition mentions my work in the 9th paragraph which in my opinion is the best paragraph.
Currently my work is on display in Aurora, Colorado at Red Delicious Press in their juried exhibition Water on Paper. I was selected as one of seven artists exploring themes of water in their work. My two newest silkscreens are there along with work by Steve Dininno, Susan Hambleton, James Hubbard, Julia Rymer, Pamela Schenfeld, and Marcus Thibodeau.