STELLA EBNER
Stella Ebner earned her BFA from the University of Minnesota and her MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Exhibitions of her work include: the Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY; Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI; Field Projects, NYC, NY; International Print Center New York, NYC, NY; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA; and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Ebner has held residencies at MI-LAB in Lake Kawaguchi, Japan, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM; the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, NY; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, NYC, NY; The Creative Art Initiative, Buffalo, NY; and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. She is the recipient of several grants, including a Kala Art Institute Fellowship and Minnesota State Arts Board Artists’ Assistance Fellowship. Her work is in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Library of Congress Print Collection, Washington D.C.; Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; University of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM; and the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC, NY, among others. Ebner is currently an Associate Professor of Art+Design at Purchase College – SUNY in Purchase, NY and Chair of the Printmaking Department. She lives in Ossining, NY.
ARTIST STATEMENT My work centers upon the perceived usualness of the everyday. My imagery illuminates what is lost during the in-between moments and reveals the underlying essence of existence. I am concerned with finding a balance between the perception of the everyday and the perception of the spiritual. To illustrate this dichotomy of perception, I take on common occurrences, usual happenstances, and everyday ubiquity as my subject matter, but look upon them with a mindful, benevolent, even worshipful eye. My ultimate goal is to recognize the burden of each in-between, mundane moment of existence as taking on the weight of the world. -
Stella Ebner
Stella Ebner Teenager with Dog and Chess Set 2021 | woodblock print $3,750.00 image: 24 x 36" | frame: 30.5 x 42"
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Stella Ebner Peonies, Dragonfly Vase, And Common House Spider (At the Acupuncturist) 2022 | woodblock print $3,800.00 image: 40 x 24" | frame: 46 x 30.5"
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Stella Ebner Bait, Rope and Knife (The Duck Boat) 2020 | woodblock print $3,250.00 image: 36 x 24" | frame: 42.5 x 30"
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CINDY KOOPMAN
Cindy Koopman grew up in southern Minnesota. She earned a BA in Art Education and an MFA in Printmaking and has continued her education through various workshops in the arts. After graduate school, Ms. Koopman worked as a printmaking instructor for the Lacoste School of the Arts in Lacoste, France and then as a faculty member at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota until her retirement in 2021. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has work in various collections. Koopman works primarily in printmaking and drawing, using both traditional and contemporary techniques. Her current work focuses mainly on drawing, etching, and wood engraving. She is a member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Mid America Print Council, and the Wood Engravers Network.
ARTIST STATEMENT I often concentrate on a single object or group of objects for a series of works, exploring an image or idea for extended periods of time. My compositions often reflect a focused observation of a singular image set within a starkly compressed space. I am attempting to distill the image/idea into a concise moment. I am trying to exhaust each of its possibilities before moving on, still building these images around and through the formal issues of shape, value, and space. Currently, I am working with imagery derived from weekly visits to the Bell Museum’s herbarium collection. I use these drawing sessions to better understand the structure and organization of the plant specimens. From this, I make prints and drawings which place the specimens into settings that reference that structure and organization but do not strictly adhere to the rules of nature. I am interested in creating patterns and juxtapositions which will call to mind familiar relationships
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Cindy Koopman
Cindy Koopman Untitled 2022.3I 2022 | collage of etched images $600.00 image: 8 x 10" | frame: 16 x 18"
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Cindy Koopman Untitled 2022.4I 2022 | collage of etched images $700.00 image: 6 x 16" | frame: 14 x 24"
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Cindy Koopman Untitled 2022.1I 2022 | collage of etched images $800.00 image: 20 x 12" | frame: 28 x 20"
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Cindy Koopman Untitled 2022.2I 2022 | collage of etched images $800.00 image: 16 x 8" | frame: 24 x 16"
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KAREN KUNC
Karen Kunc has exhibited and sold her artwork around the world in her more than 30 years as a professional artist. The renowned artist, teacher and mentor has established her reputation internationally in woodcut printmaking and book arts, both as a producer and teacher. Kunc is the Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she has taught since 1983. She is the founder the school’s Under Pressure Print Club — a community-based support group for UNL printmakers. In 2013 Kunc founded Constellation Studios to pursue and pass on her passion for print, paper and bookmaking. Kunc established this creative gallery, workspace and professional classroom in a refurbished and historic building in Lincoln, Nebraska’s Antelope Valley neighborhood. Among Constellation’s presses, type shop, wet paper studio, bookbindery, print and book collections and mixed-use spaces, Kunc serves as mentor, artist, curator and community organizer, aiming to develop young artists, spur careers and cheer culture.
ARTIST STATEMENT My work as an artist/printmaker addresses issues of the landscape and our natural surroundings as direct influences from my Nebraska heritage, my daily experiences and viewpoints in the landscape of the plains and from extensive travel, and as artistic interpretation and contemplation on larger issues of the eternal life struggle, of endurance and vulnerability, growth and destruction. My prints suggest extremes of weather and natural forces at work, a sense of the micro/macrocosm, set against landscape or space, both wild and cultivated, intimate and unknowable. I am interested in the span of time it takes to wear away a canyon, build a mountain, the erosion forces that continually wash onto the plains, forming the earth, and, ultimately, shaping our world. My hope is that these larger concepts are provoked by viewing my work with a poetic and intelligent sense of wonder. My symbolic images are derived from a rich mix of instilled influences, born at home, and greatly expanded and contextualized from seeing life lived the world over, my experiences and past work, and issues in contemporary art. I recognize a host of associations that flow out of my work and are research interests for me - from nature and science, spiritual and religious thought, art historical and modern icons, immigration narratives and native myths.
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Karen Kunc
Karen Kunc Drifts of Ice & Gold 2022 | woodcut $3,700.00 image: 17 x 56" | frame: 22.5 x 62.5"
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Karen Kunc Acanthus 2021 | woodcut $1,050.00 image: 14 x 14" | frame: 19 x 19"
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Karen Kunc Floret 2021 | woodcut $1,050.00 image: 14 x 14" | frame: 19 x 19"
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DAN O'KANE
Dan O’Kane has lived a nomadic existence. Seattle, Phoenix, Boston, New York and the mountains of New Hampshire, are just a few of the places he’s called home. His painterly abstractions, however, are shaped primarily by the big-sky and rolling plains of his childhood Nebraska home. A stark horizon line is a fitting starting point for his exuberant color field paintings.
ARTIST STATEMENT I am still drawn to abstraction after all these years because of the challenge of making something out of nothing, something that manages to be more than mere decoration. The struggle is exciting because it's both mentally and physically demanding. To push past what is obviously attractive, in color and form, and what might seem logical emotionally, takes a good deal of hard-headedness, to which I am uniquely qualified. I have always been fascinated by satellite photos, contour drawings and the mesmerizing views from the window of an airplane. These raw natural elements have informed much of my work. In a long-running series entitled “Prairie Haikus” I reduced the traditional landscape to just three ambiguous elements. Lately, I have been pouring over scientific journals looking at high resolution images of tissue taken with the electron microscope. Dyed with special chemicals the tissue samples light up with fascinating colors and shapes. A new series I've been working on called “Sea Forms” is informed by these ideas.
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Dan O'Kane
Dan O'Kane Carnival Song 2022 | mixed media $1,250.00 image: 19 x 19" | frame: 24 x 24"
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Dan O'Kane Sub-Atomic Party Mix 2022 | mixed media $1,250.00 image: 19 x 19" | frame: 24 x 24"
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Dan O'Kane Sea Form #32 2022 | mixed media $1,500.00 image: 19 x 24" | frame: 24 x 29"
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Dan O'Kane Sea Form #31 2022 | mixed media $1,500.00 image: 19 x 24" | frame: 24 x 29"
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DANI ROACH
Dani Roach was born and raised in Wisconsin and received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Roach moved to Minneapolis in 1980 and was a member of WARM Gallery from 1983-1988. Roach has been granted artists' residencies at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL; the Millay Colony in Austerlitz, NY; and VCCA in Amherst, VA. In 2012, she was one of twelve artists invited to participate in the inaugural 12’12’12 project at the Minnesota State Fair. Other awards for Roach's work include a Jerome Foundation Travel/Study Grant, a Moebius Exceptional Achievement Award from the University of Wisconsin and a Purchase Award from the University of Minnesota. Concurrent with her artistic pursuits, Roach has worked in academic libraries for over 40 years. Roach has been represented by Groveland Gallery since 1984.
ARTIST STATEMENT Travel provides a library of scenery that serves as raw source material for my oils and watercolors. Water and its surrounding landscape continues to be a predominant theme that runs through much of my work. I am drawn to scenes of stillness and constructed compositions. Abstract components of shape, pattern, and light are often contrasted with representational elements. -
Dani Roach
Dani Roach Looking Down 2022 | watercolor $1,900.00 image: 26 x 20" | frame: 35 x 28.5"
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Dani Roach Looking Out 2022 | watercolor $1,800.00 image: 20 x 20" | frame: 28.75 x 28.5"
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Dani Roach Looking Up 2022 | watercolor $1,900.00 image: 25 x 20" | frame: 33.5 x 28"
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KATHERINE STEICHEN ROSING
Katherine Steichen Rosing weaves the invisible forces in wild and urban forest ecosystems through her vividly-hued paintings, intricate mixed media works, and immersive installations. A long-time art educator, Rosing taught college art courses in the Chicago area and in Madison, WI, where she currently maintains her studio. She earned a BFA from the University of Colorado-Denver and an MFA from Northern Illinois University. In 2019 she was awarded a Madison Arts Commission Fellowship, and a Dane Arts Short Order Project Grant. Recent solo exhibition venues include Gallery 1308 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Cooler at Abel Contemporary Gallery in Paoli, WI (now in Stoughton). Additional solo and two-person exhibitions were held at the Arts Club in Washington D.C., the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, and Klammer Gallery in Tokyo. She was Artist in Residence at UW-Madison Department of Limnology’s Trout Lake Research Station in 2020, and at the St. Croix Watershed Research Station (sponsored by the Science Museum of Minnesota) in 2019. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including Japan, and is in private and public collections worldwide, including Northwestern Mutual, and The State of Wisconsin Collection.
ARTIST STATEMENT As a native Wisconsinite, our forests and lakes are an important part of my soul and are embedded in my work. Phases of life can be seen everywhere from the slender saplings and immense mature trees, to the ailing and fallen. In the quiet pools within the forests, ripples indicate life as insects, animals, and drizzling rain interact and disappear — ephemeral events. Invisible, interrelated forces, like photosynthesis, mycorrhizal networks, and transpiration, all related to climate change, are the underlying themes I explore through painting, mixed media, and installations. I am fascinated by these hidden processes and the significant role that forests play in mitigating climate change. Like human populations, these critical ecosystems face existential threats from changing weather patterns. Yet, the rate of deforestation globally continues at a high rate. We need forests. Trees convert carbon from the atmosphere into biomass through photosynthesis. They help regulate the local water cycle by sipping ground water up through the tissues to the canopy, and then exhaling through leaves. Vast networked root systems stabilize the soil, reducing erosion and flooding. The visual stimulus for my work comes in part from the heightened sensations I experience while hiking and kayaking. Surface and color are important in my paintings where I develop surfaces to enhance the play of light and color like nature’s textures. I work in a wide range of sizes and formats from intimate oval paintings on birch panel to large two-dimensional works and immersive installations that surround the viewer in a place of wonder like the forests that I love.
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Katherine Steichen Rosing
Katherine Steichen Rosing Water Spirits #3, A Still Dark Pool 2022 | acrylic & pastel on mounted paper $2,800.00 image: 22.5 x 30" | frame: 23.75 x 31.25"
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Katherine Steichen Rosing Water Spirits #2, Ten Thousand Beings 2022 | acrylic & pastel on mounted paper $2,800.00 image: 22.5 x 30" | frame: 23.75 x 31.25"
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Katherine Steichen Rosing Water Shields & Damselflies #22, Prescience 2022 | acrylic on mounted paper $900.00 image: 14.35 x 11.25" | frame: 15.5 x 12.5"
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Katherine Steichen Rosing Water Shields & Damselflies #15, With One Voice 2022 | acrylic on mounted paper $2,800.00 image: 22.5 x 30" | frame: 23.75 x 31.25"
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DAN & LEE ROSS
Dan and Lee’s paths crossed in 1972 as students at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Dan, who is from Madison, Wisconsin and Lee, from St. Paul, began a collaboration that continues to this day. They work side by side from initial designs to the finished sculptures and prints. Living in northern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior has had a dramatic impact on their work. New forms and shapes evolved after they observed how tumultuous storms and shifting ice sheets rearranged their boulder-strewn shoreline. On any given day, Dan and Lee can be found sketching out ideas, rolling out slabs of clay, loading their gas-fired kiln, carving basalt or granite using chisels, diamond saws and grinders, and making monotype prints using wood blocks, ink and paper. They have won numerous awards, several commissions and their work is included in private and public collections nationwide.
ARTIST STATEMENT In 1984 we took a six week camping trip to East Africa. We sat down with Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, joined a wildebeest (gnu) herd on the Serengeti at the peak of their migration and talked with a rhino in the crater In Tanzania. Dan was reorganizing our studio and ran across a box of old photos from this trip which stimulated us to explore and experiment with new ideas. For this new work, we used our archival photos to create stencils which we slid over our mono print paper until we had an "aha" moment.
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Dan and Lee Ross
Dan and Lee Ross Blue Gnu 2022 | monoprint collage $850.00 image: 22 x 14" | frame: 28 x 20"
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Dan and Lee Ross Consultant 2022 | monoprint collage $850.00 image: 17 x 24" | frame: 24 x 31"
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Dan and Lee Ross Counselor 2022 | monoprint collage $950.00 image: 22 x 15" | frame:29 x 22"
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Dan and Lee Ross Historian 2022 | monoprint collage $750.00 image: 15 x 22" | frame: 22 x 29"
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