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Intersections features a group of artists from the University of Maryland- College Park graduate program who explore the use of print media in combination with sculpture, installation, painting and drawing. Most of these artists do not use printmaking as part their main conceptual or technical process, but instead intersect with print to form new avenues within their own art making. These works also investigate the integration of digital processes and photomechanical techniques to push the boundaries of current printmaking aesthetic and practice, while expanding the role printmaking plays in the contemporary art world.
Curator:
Justin Strom
Assistant Professor Printmaking/Digital Imaging
Art Department University of Maryland
Artists:
Michael Booker
Zac Jackson
Bahareh Jalehmahmoudi
Felicia Glidden
Adam Nelson
Alexander Peace
artdc Gallery
Impressed: New Visions in Printmaking.
Featuring Undergraduate Printmakers from the University of Maryland
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 4. 5:00 - 8:00pm
Exhibition continues: December 4, 2010 - January 15, 2010.
Impressed: New Visions in Printmaking is a record of contemporary trends in art. It is all the things that make looking at serious student work so exciting. It is evidence of the pleasure of learning about art by making art. It is an exploration of process, form, and ideas. It outlines what young artists are thinking about today and what we'll be talking about in the rest of the art world tomorrow.
Impressed spotlights the outstanding art work developed in recent years by printmaking students in the Art Department at the University of Maryland's flagship campus in Prince George's County. Led by two accomplished professors, Margo Humphrey and Justin Strom, students have delivered the rewards of the recently expanded and upgraded 5,000 sq. ft. multi-level shop. Seeing these changes, it's natural that the "new" will come to the forefront of our conversations; and it's exciting.
What is impressive about Impressed, about the printmaking students, however, is that this new isn't just about the "new". It's not just computers and those things which would have seemed like science fiction just a few years ago. It's also lithography and etching, relief printing and art made by hand. Impressed is the new alongside the time-honored, it's new ways of doing the traditional, and new media combined with all media. It represents new visions in what it means to print art work.
The Brentwood Arts Exchange is proud to partner with the University of Maryland's Department of Art to bring its printmaking students' best work prominently into the public in the Gateway Arts District. Timed to coincide with the holidays,Impressed is a great opportunity to turn the teaching from the students toward the other side of professional practice in art: collectors. There are few opportunities that make so much art so accessible to collect and to give. And, there is no better time to see it and become a part of it than now.
Limited Edition was an invitational printmaking symposium presented by the Department of Art at the University of Maryland-College Park. The event scheduled for October 23rd and 24th, 2009 featured color woodcut and chine colle demonstrations by Karen Kunc and Brian Shure. The symposium consisted of a small group of participants that included professionals, educators and students. Our focus was to introduce our recently renovated print facility and program to the mid-Atlantic region, while offering a personal insight to the research of world-renowned artists.
In tandem with Limited Edition, Judy Pfaff the Department of Arts and Humanities 2009 Artist-in-Residence, presented a public lecture on Thursday October 22nd, and an exhibition with Karen Kunc and Brian Shure at the University of Maryland Art Gallery opening on Friday October 23rd. All Three artists held an exclusive luncheon gallery talk for symposium participants on October 24th. Included in the symposium was a collaborative screen printing action performed by students, exhibited at the conclusion of the symposium.