Summer 2009 Exhibitions
Up and Coming:
New Printmakers Make Their Mark
June 14, 2009 - September 13, 2009
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Marion Held: Sculpture
June 28, 2009 - September 13, 2009
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Barbara Schulman: Fiber Art
June 28, 2009 - September 13, 2009
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Up and Coming: New Printmakers Make Their Mark
Ivanco Talevski, Self Portrait, 2009, Etching, drypoint
The Hunterdon Art Museum continues its long history of supporting and promoting contemporary printmakers with this invitational show of prints by MFA candidates and recent graduates. We invited eleven East Coast art schools to nominate up and coming printmakers, and from these nominees we selected twenty-two talented artists. Participating schools are: The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University; Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art & Planning; Hunter College of the City University of New York; Pratt Institute; Rhode Island School of Design; Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Syracuse University; Tyler School of Art; The University of the Arts; University of Pennsylvania; and Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts. Works chosen for the exhibition utilize traditional techniques such as etching, woodcut, silkscreen and lithography, as well as current advances in digital technology. The show includes two- and three-dimensional objects, handmade paper, artist books, and mixed media installations that expand the conventional boundaries of printmaking, and identify innovative trends in contemporary art.
Andy Kozlowski, The Ambassador (Is There Anyone Else Out Here?), 2008, Serigraph
Noah Breuer, Superior Airpower Pinwheel 3, 2009, Lithograph, silkscreen and collage on board see it in motion!
Marion Held: Sculpture
Material Traces, 2008
Working in disparate materials such as rubber, clay, metal, and resin, as well as found objects, the core of Marion Held's work has remained remarkably consistent. It references the passage of time, with skeletal structures reminiscent of archeological sites suggesting the distant past. Worn childhood furniture and objects from contemporary life evoke the more immediate past.
Whether she uses actual objects or illumination and shadow as expressive vehicles, mystery permeates Ms. Held's work. Often elegiac in tone, it suggests memory and loss, as well as fertility.
Material Traces, 2008, detail
Material Traces, 2008
Barbara Schulman: Fiber Art
Barbara Schulman creates both two- and three-dimensional works of art that surprise the viewer with their inclusions of unusual content. Although a weaver for many years, Schulman turned to techniques and materials that allowed more personal freedom of expression. However, her love of pattern and structure, key components of weaving, continue to influence her work. Along with hand and machine embroidery, this artist also uses credit card fragments, commercial fabric labels, embroidered patches and deconstructed text. Schulman's work in unexpected materials may sometimes be construed as commentary on society's consumerism.
