JEAN GUMPPER | THINKING OUTSIDE September 10 - October 15, 2022
Jean Gumpper was born in Hawaii, grew up in Michigan and spent time in several states including ten years in Minnesota. She now lives in Colorado Springs where she is Artist in Residence and Senior Lecturer at Colorado College. Her prints are represented by several galleries nationally and internationally. In 2000, she received a Visual Artist Fellowship award from the Colorado Council on the Arts. Jean taught international print workshops at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and she participated in artist residencies at Anderson Center, Goldwell Museum, Grand Canyon and Rocky Mountain National Parks, and the Ucross Foundation. She is looking forward to upcoming residencies on Mackinac Island and Art Print Residence in Spain.
JEAN GUMPPER
My work hovers between representation and abstraction and often focuses on the edges between water and land. Walking, hiking, and looking are the beginnings of my prints. This contemplative, restorative practice is an intimate and direct approach to visualizing nature.
I’m intrigued with the rhythms of mark making and the possibilities of color, texture, and movement. I hope to capture the sense of being in the landscape, hearing the sounds, feeling the air. I work within a structure, the tradition of woodcut, which allows me to freely explore the layers and shifts within it. The limitations of process lead to unexpected paths.
Jean Gumpper
ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist, I am always drawn to water. Born in Hawaii, raised in Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes, I now live in the arid west. My prints draw inspiration from the lakes, rivers, marshes, ponds, seeps and springs I find both far away and near my home. To me, these images become rich in meaning as they suggest resilience, renewal, beauty, and new life in a time of constant change.
Mist 20221/1|woodcut monoprint image:$1100.0019 x 15" | frame: 25 x 20" INQUIRE
Crater Lake 2/15 2022 | woodcut print $1200.00 framed | $900.00 unframed image: 20 x 30" | frame: 27 x 36.5"
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Thicket 5/18
2022 | woodcut print $1200.00 framed | $900.00 unframed image: 20 x 30" | frame: 27 x 36.5"
Imminent 86/90
2021 | woodcut print $900.00 framed | $750.00 unframed image: 12 x 17" | frame: 18 x 22.5"
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2022 | woodcut print $900.00 framed | $750.00 unframed image: 12 x 17" | frame: 18 x 22.5"
Interrupted 4/15
Memory of River Grass 1/4 ev 2022 | woodcut monoprint $1750.00 framed | $1500.00 unframed image: 18 x 38.75" | frame: 24 x 44.5"
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Pond Sounds II 1/1 2022 | woodcut monoprint image:$900.0011 x 17" | frame: 17 x 22" INQUIRE
Red Notes 1/15 2022 | woodcut print $900.00 framed | $750.00 unframed image: 17 x 12" | frame: 22.75 x 18"
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Clearing 1/1 2022 | mixed media monoprint image:$900.0011 x 16" | frame: 17 x 20"
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Geode II 1/1 2022 | woodcut on Thom Leech marbled paper image:$850.0010 x 16" | frame: 16 x 21"
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Geode III 1/1 2022 | woodcut on Thom Leech marbled paper image:$850.0010 x 16" | frame: 16 x 21"
Geode I 1/1 2022 | woodcut on Thom Leech marbled paper image:$850.0010 x 14" | frame:16 x 21"
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