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Parsing Dreams
Parsing Dreams is the 2nd virtual exhibition of Printmakers Open Forum's Broadside Salon, curated by Adam Finkelstein and James Meara, editors of The Hand Magazine
STATEMENT BY THE CURATORS:
We would like to thank Shelley Thorstensen for inviting us to select a group of images for you to enjoy. And thanks to the artists for sharing your visions with us. We hope visitors to this collection will look deeper into the stories the images tell. Go to the artist’s pages or websites, learn where they are coming from. Make an effort to know what their stories are about. And then, most importantly, go find a way to tell your own story because when we feel heard we are more likely to listen.
The images in this collection are examples of two things. On the one hand they show the diversity and variety of the human experience and on the other they show the similarity and connection between different people. The constant theme in our curating is duality and diversity. It seems counterproductive to select a group of images that all tell the same story. If art serves any purpose, it must be to express our own experiences but also to understand the experiences of others. There is no single vision that is correct, no point of view that is above or below another. The primary consideration is: does this image tell a compelling story?
Sometimes the story is one that is utterly foreign to us. It is a story that teaches us, enlightens us, and opens our mind to new possibilities. This story conditions our sympathies and helps us understand something anew.
Sometimes the story is one that is utterly familiar to us. It is a story that we know, reassures us, and closes our mind in an old embrace. This story reaffirms our convictions and helps us know we are understood.
This collection of images is all over the place, aesthetically. And that’s OK, because such is life. But they all told us an interesting story. There are images that tell of intimacy and solitude, mystery and familiarity, spirituality and physicality, interiors and exteriors.
Adam Finkelstein and James Meara
March, 2021
THE ARTISTS:
Brutal enfrentamiento
Burnt residue embossing
Miguel.Aragon@csi.cuny.edu
Miguel A. Aragón explores subjects of violence, transient and/or persistent memory, perception and the multiple; he uses erasure as language through the use of processes that are reductive in nature. His awards include the 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Aragón is an Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island CUNY.
Gem C3
Monoprint
15 x 15”
Laura Crehuet Berman is a contemporary artist known for her abstract and colorful prints, collages and paintings that celebrate the joy of seeing and the beauty of discovery. Born in Barcelona, she lives and works in Kansas City where she has been a faculty member at Kansas City Art Institute since 2002.
Japanese Garden
9 x 8”
Etching, aquatint, chine colle
Jean Allemeier Boot is a fine art printmaker who resides and works from her home studio in the Grand Rapids, MI area. She acquires inspiration from interesting relationships observed in the natural world. Jean is a member of The Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) and The Boston Printmakers.
Our Pillows (at 2:33 PM)
26" x 32"
Etching with soft ground, aquatint, and drypoint on paper
rubenbcastillo@gmail.com
Ruben Bryan Castillo is a visual artist and educator born in Dallas, TX and currently working in Kansas City, MO. His work investigates themes of intimacy, queerness, place, and the body using a range of media including print, drawing, sculpture/installation, and video.
Ancient, My Enemy
34 x 23"
Screenprint
dellpesce@gmail.com
Jeffrey grew up in Oregon. His prints are experiential, and he thinks of them as opportunities to pay attention to how we see. He first learned print from Leonardo Lasansky at Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. He also studied with Rosalyn Richards at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. He completed his MFA at the University of New Mexico, working with Jose Rodriguez and Lydia Madrid. He worked two years as a Fellow at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy. Since 2000, he is the head of Printmaking at Texas State University.
Small Stories #6
2.75 x 3.94"
Intaglio hard ground, spit bite and wax pencil aquatint, aquatint, surface roll
marnix.everaert@gmail.com
Group + Solo exhibitions since 1986 in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, China, Japan, USA. Professor non-toxic printmaking Academy for Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium. Workshops > Belgium, Holland, Spain, Japan, USA, South Africa. Visiting artist > USA, Japan
Filter
11’ x 38’ x 2.5”
screenprint, monotype, cut paper
flandersav@appstate.edu
April Flanders is a studio artist living and making in Western North Carolina. She has presented her creative research in solo and group shows nationally and internationally. Her work addresses the problem of marine invasive using a variety of media including printmaking, painting, drawing and installation.
Dust and Sweat
15 x 11"
Screenprint
foster.arron@gmail.com
Arron Foster received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Art Education from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC and his Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of Georgia, Athens Georgia. Arron currently lives and works in Kent, Ohio.
Playhouse
10 x 8"
Monotype, pronto plate litho
gordo.mary@gmail.com
Mary Gordon McFall was born in Germany, but calls the Flint Hills of Kansas home. She holds an MFA with an emphasis in Printmaking & Book Arts from the University of Georgia, and BFAs in Painting and Printmaking from Kansas State University. Mary currently lives and works in Manhattan, Kansas.
Transference
22 x 36"
Intaglio
Jonathan S. Green is of Mi’kmaq and Inuit, settler heritage from Newfoundland, Canada. Green earned a MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta in 2016. Green now resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. On instagram @jonathansgreen
Stone Architecture: Cantilever
13 x 11”
Monoprint: etching, collage, embossing
joanhausrath@gmail.com
For the past thirty years, Joan Hausrath, MFA, has investigated non-toxic alternatives to traditional printmaking processes and has received grants and attended several residencies in support of her research. Her prints are widely exhibited in the US, internationally by invitation, and are in numerous private and public collections.
Sangre y Valentina
6 x 9"
Etching, chine colle
mhernan1988@gmail.com
Marco Hernandez is a Mexican Artist/Printmaker who currently resides in Kansas. He received his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Kansas State University in 2015. He is currently teaching at Wichita State University as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Print Media.
Gazing Quilt
9 x 12"
Linoleum print
art@tenjin-ikeda.com
Tenjin Ikeda is an Afro-Puerto Rican artist born and raised in Brooklyn, New York on October 30, 1968. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York first focusing on graphic design and ultimately Fine Arts where he felt more freedom to express himself. It was at the Art Students League that he discovered printmaking, which has been his focus for the past 22 years working in relief. He has various works in private collections as well as acquisitions by The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Print Club of Albany, and the Art Student’s League. Tenjin’s work has been featured as cover art and illustrations for various books. He has been included in “Modern Printmaking” a book of 30 contemporary printmakers by Sylvie Covey.
Untitled (34W)
16 x 20"
Mixed media monotype on panel (Monotype print with graphite)
MTMprints@gmail.com
Matthew McLaughlin is a mixed media artist and curator whose work explores the human relationship with their environments and spaces, both physically and psychologically. He received his BFA degree in Fine Arts from Ringling College of Art and Design and his MFA degree in Printmaking from Arizona State University.
Refrigerator: cachexia
24 x 36"
sanded screenprint, graphite on panel
emilyorzech@muhlenberg.edu
Emily Orzech is printmaker who works primarily in screenprint and lithography. She currently is an Associate Professor at Muhlenberg College. Refrigerator is part of the series Family History, which focuses on the liminal spaces we inhabit in the process of illness and caregiving.
Overhead Web
8.5 x 5.75"
prosiad@aol.com
DeAnn L. Prosia, American printmaker specializing in line etchings. She structurally creates architectural images, building up layers of line and tone through crosshatching. She has permanent works in many collections including The Rockwell Corning, NY, The New York Historical Society Museum and Library and The New York Public Library Print Collection.
Please Take a seat
22 x 30”
Lithographs printed on use tea bags
tanapotts@gmail.com
Tatiana Potts is a native of Slovakia. She received her MFA in printmaking from the University of Tennessee. Her work includes prints, folded paper installations and artist books that are created with various printmaking processes. She currently teaches at Hartford University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in printmaking and bookmaking.
This Little Piggy
16 x 20"
Intaglio collagraph with collage and handwork
jkreigeluth@gmail.com
Jolynn Reigeluth is an artist currently living and working in Indianapolis. She earned her MFA in printmaking from Kansas State University in 2015. In recent years, her work has been included in exhibitions across the U.S. including the International Print Center New York’s New Prints and Pacific States Biennial North American Printmaking Exhibition.
Stage Spirits
15 x 19”
Lithograph
minna@minnaresnick.com
Minna Resnick has shown both nationally and internationally and has work in over 50 public and private collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the New York Public Library; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England. Resnick was the recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship as well as a dozen other funded grants. She maintains a studio in Ithaca, NY.
Growth 3
47 x 31”
Etching, relief etching, screenprint, monotype
marilee.salvator@wku.edu
Marilee Salvator is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking and Design at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Her work has been exhibited in over 125 group exhibitions throughout the world and over 25 solo shows in North America. Her work is included in over 25 public art collections.
Venetian Shore
11 x 17”
Intaglio on handmade gampi paper
singel.rachel@gmail.com
Rachel Singel is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 2009 and a Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University Iowa in 2013. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and represented in private, public and museum collections.
Flooded Interior
33 x 24"
Etching, drypoint, collagraph
evan.summer@gmail.com
Evan Summer created his first collagraph 50 years ago in 1971. From the beginning science has had a strong influence on his artwork in the use of uncommon materials in printmaking plates to mathematical perspective to depicting natural specimens. He works primarily in prints, especially etching and collagraph making, and also with drawing and collage.
Mist the Sun Can Sieze
16 x 16”
Intaglio, woodcut, collage
t.gordon@windstream.net
Disability is the lens through which I see the world. Water’s buoyancy lifts and supports all bodies. It is a powerful metaphor within disability communities. My prints use these metaphors to reframe our understanding around issues of fragility, beauty, and inclusivity.
Lamentation
13.25 X 10.5"
Lithograph
bpwilliams52@att.net
Barbara Payne Williams, (MFA/studio art), exhibits in solo, invitational, group, and juried shows throughout the United States and internationally. Her work is archived in The Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection (AP/RC), The Museum of Art at Texas Tech University.
