Shelley Thorstensen, who lives and works in Oxford Pennsylvania, received a MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, in Elkins Park, PA. Thorstensen is a printmaker concerned primarily with medium. She proposes that medium can comprise a significant part of an artwork’s meaning, and aims to marry traditional printmaking techniques with modern, digital styles to evoke a sense of relative reality transcending virtual conceptions of printmaking. As her printmaking is a duet between tactile and virtual, Thorstensen insists that artwork is a physical representation of the artist’s consciousness: a duality of body and mind, physical and mental. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Royal Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; and Polymetaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 There are three opportunities to recieve Shelley Thorstensen's prints through this Kickstarter

1. a new multi-color lithograph made on the Okuma once its set up and running for the campaign price of $100.00 
   
2. "Matter of Fact" multi-color lithograph. Last one available of this edition for the campaign price of $350.00 
3. Mini collages made from print prools (approximately 5 x 7") for the campaign price of $45.00  

Shelley Thorstensen, Matter of Fact, 11 x 14", seven color hand drawn and printed lithograph 



Shelley Thorstensen, "Mini Me's", 5 x 7" print collages made for this campaign  

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