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Evan Summer
Michael Goro Richard Hricko Frances Jetter Endi Poskovic Rosalyn Richards Rostislav Spitkovsky Ivanco Talevski Rochelle Toner Bruce Waldman
KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY
Printmaking i n v i tat i o n a l September 6 – October 5, 2012
c U R AT E D B y
f E AT U R E D A R T i S T S
Evan Summer
Michael Goro Richard Hricko Frances Jetter Endi Poskovic Rosalyn Richards Rostislav Spitkovsky Ivanco Talevski Rochelle Toner Bruce Waldman
KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY
2012 Printmaking I n v i tat i o n a l
I quickly made a list of about 20 printmakers. The artists I chose were established and well known in the printmaking community. It surprised me that all of the nine artists I initially contacted accepted.
Miller Gallery, Kutztown University
The 2012 Printmaking Invitational encompassed the power and drama of Frances Jetter’s linocuts and magnificient drawing in the prints of Michael Goro, Rostislav Spitkovsky, Bruce Waldman and Ivanco Talevski. There were beautiful and subtle surfaces created by Richard Hricko and Rosalyn Richards. The masterful woodcuts of Endi Poskovic added color and Rochelle Toner’s strong etchings bordering between realism and abstraction rounded out the exhibition.
In the spring of 2012, I was asked to curate an invitational print exhibition to open in September 2012 at Kutztown University’s Miller Gallery. This involved selecting 8 to 10 artists, asking each to loan 6 to 10 prints, in some case selecting the prints and lots of e-mails. It was exciting and challenging for me because, as an artist, I’ve always been on the other side of this process. A curator can design an experience for the viewers. This is creative and it can be educational, emotional and inspiring. Working on this show was a learning experience for me and I now have a better appreciation of a curator’s role. There is so much excellent contemporary printmaking and so much variety. I decided to feature artists who specialized in printmaking. This has always made sense to me. The ideas of sole authorship and works by specialists were central to the exhibition. There have been many exhibitions of prints by painters and sculptors, some very good. These are printed in workshops with technicians having a significant role. Individual efforts interest me more.
I am well aware that an exhibition like this is a cooperative effort that couldn’t happen without the work of many individuals. I want to thank all the people who made this exhibition possible. The artists generously loaned their work for the exhibition – Michael Goro, Richard Hricko, Frances Jetter, Endi Poskovic, Rostislav Spitkovsky, Rosalyn Richards, Ivanco Talevski, Rochelle Toner and Bruce Waldman. Each made a strong individual statement and each one added to the quality of the exhibition. I also want to thank Karen Stanford, the Acting Gallery Director, for an outstanding job. E VA N S U M M E R
Michael Goro Chicago, Illinois
p r o f ess i o n :
Program Chair at the American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois, 2002–Present. E D U C A T IO N :
MFA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1999. BA, Mukhina College of Art and Design, Leningrad, Russia, 1985-89.
Michael Goro’s art is a continuous creative search for raw authenticity in urban environments and human forms that are constantly changing. Individuals change as they experience life and cities develop and/ or decay through time.
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People and places have history and experience. Cities are weathered by time and through use, taking on a personality of their own from the people and the elements that have interacted with them. It is a combination of all of these factors that creates authenticity. Looking for subject matter Goro finds simple things that we see every day, things that become symbolic once they are taken out of context. He experiments with the juxtaposition of places, faces, and architectural designs that reflect diverse personal experiences. His story is a vivid illustration of the end of the last century—a time of deconstruction, discontinuity, and dislocation. Goro finds that black-andwhite prints convey contradictory images better than any other medium by reducing them to the most basic color contrast. His work provides the full spectrum of techniques ranging from renaissance engraving to digital photogravure.
(2013) Chicago in Paris. Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
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(2013) 2nd Guanlan International Print Biennial, Print Original Industry Base, Guanlan, China. (2013) International Print Triennial Krakow-Istanbul Tophane-i Amire Culture & Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey.
(2013) Michael Goro, Urban Myths, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, USA. (2013) Carrier Pigeon Issue 8 Release, Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, New York, USA. (2013) ICPNA Printmaking Biennual, Lima, Peru. (2012) 2nd Yunnan International Print Exhibition (second prize), Yunnan Museum in Kunming, Yunnan, China. (2012) Urban Visions Michael Goro - Nicola Villa, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France. (2012) Pulled, Pressed & Printed Chicago, Expo 72 Gallery, Chicago, USA. (2012) The 100th Anniversary of the Titanic, International Graphic Art Exhibition Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
A Fish Rots from the Head Down, 2008, Etching Engraving, 28” x 40”
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Richard Hricko Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
p r o f ess i o n :
Program Head, Printmaking, Department of Graphic Arts and Design, Tyler School of Art. 2011–Present Professor and Area Head, Printmaking, Department of Graphic Arts and Design,Tyler School of Art, 2011–Present E D U C A T IO N :
BFA, Printmaking and Painting, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, 1974. MFA, Printmaking, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 1979.
Exhibitions and Awards
(2013) Alternative, Heilongjiang Art Museum, Harbin, China. (2013) Nature’s Mark, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ. (2013) Studio Visit/Lecture, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. (2012) 2nd Place Cash Award, International Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, 1212 Gallery, Richmond, VA. (2012) Takach Press Award, Stand Out Prints, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN (2012) Richard Hricko, Thomas Hunter Projects, New York, NY. (2012) Sixth Biennial National Print Exhibition, NAU Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ. (2010) Symbiosis, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. (2010) Corridor: Artist/Collaborator, Roberson Museum Science Center, Binghamton, NY. (2010) Co-Curator, MEDIUM RESISTANCE: Revolutionary Tendencies in Print and Craft, The Icebox, Philadelphia, PA.
Root 1, Copperplate Photogravure on Somerset Satin, 20” x 15” P R I N T M A K I N G I N V I TAT I O N A L
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Frances Jetter New York, New York
p r o f ess i o n :
Faculty, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY 1979 –Present Artist’s Advisory Board: The Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge MA.2003- Present E D U C A T IO N :
BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1972.
Exhibitions and Awards
(2013) Frances Jetter, Works on Paper, VanDeb Editions, New York, NY. (2013) Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland. (2013) Weekend Heller: Trolling the Info for Bleu Migration, Steven Heller, Print Magazine, October 4th. (2012) Frances Jetter and Irving Grunbaum at The Studio on Slough Road, Brewster on Cape Cod, Ma. (2011) Traveled to Parsons School of Design, 8th Floor display cases, NYC, April. (2011) New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Printmaking/ Drawing/Book Arts. (2010) Honorary Mention Award for “Cry Uncle,” Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair, Silver Spring, Ma. (2010) Cry Uncle, Smilow Gallery, NYU Langone Medical Center, NYC, November. (2010) Ink Plots: the Tradition of the Graphic Novel, Visual Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, October.
Troll, 2008 Linocut, 24” x 18”
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Endi Poskovic Ann Arbor, Michigan
p r o f ess i o n :
Professor of Art and Design with tenure, Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.2008–Present. Faculty Associate CREES and CES-EUC International Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.2008–Present. E D U C A T IO N :
MFA, Visual Practice with emphasis on printmaking and drawing, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 1993. Post Graduate Study Certificate, Norwegian Cultural and Language Immersion studies, Sarnadal, Norway, 1991. BFA, Fine and Applied Graphic Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1990.
In his graphic work, Endi Poskovic invokes influences as disparate as early cinema, classic Japanese woodcut prints, devotional pictures, and Eastern European propaganda posters. By combining visual representation with text, Poskovic shifts the reading of the image by providing a new context for the viewer to continually reinterpret. Reminiscent of youthful whimsy and playful fantasy, the unsettling juxtapositions and invented constructions in Poskovic’s prints convey a sense of the habitual, like a window into the everyday reality of a different world. The hybridized narratives of toy-like objects and fantastic landscapes in Poskovic’s work imply stories from personal and social histories, referencing themes of displacement, shifting cultural identity, environmental transformation, migration, and alienation—all of which are presented in images that are as tragic as they are magnificent. w w w. end i p o s k o v i c . c o m
Exhibitions and Awards
(2014) We Were All: Endi Poskovic Works 1993-2013 National Gallery of Art of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (2013) Chronique de mon amour: Endi Poskovic Selected Works, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska. (2013) Selected Prints from International Print Center New York, Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. (2013) Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition,Chambers 241 Gallery, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. (2013) Ministry of Flemish Community Residency Fellowship, Kasterlee, Belgium. (2013) Invited Panelist, Impact 8 International Printmaking Conference ‘The Artist as Explorer’ hosted by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee, Scotland. (2013- present) Committee Member, Exhibitions, Visitors, Performances Committee, Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan. (2011-12) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, New York.
The Night Studio in Maroon Red, Color woodblock print from 5 blocks on Kozo Okawara Washi, 37.5” x 51.5”
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R o s a ly n Richards
p r o f ess i o n
Instructor, Bucknell University, 1982–Present. E D U C A T IO N :
MFA, Printmaking, Printmaking, Yale University, 1975. BFA, Printmaking, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, 1969.
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
In recent prints and drawings Richards has been exploring the visual and metaphorical intensities of the natural world, and is continually influenced by scientific imagery from fields such as biology, geology, and particle physics. She employs found imagery, and often uses multiple plates in printmaking. Richards works in an improvisational manner with a tension that develops between appropriation and the inventive generation of marks, lines, and chance occurrences. Through this process of editing and layering, she also explores a micro-macro dynamic in how the images suggest the natural world and its processes. w w w. ga l l er y- gray. c o m
Exhibitions and Awards
(2003) Solo Exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL. (2003) Dowd Fine Arts Gallery (three artists) State University of New York College at Cortland. (2003) Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation - Lake Forest, IL. (2002) Global Matrix International Print Exhibition, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN and Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. (2002) Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. (2001) Merit Award, Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Arkansas State University (2001) Visiting Artist, Munson Williams Proctor Institute School of Art exhibition and lecture. (2000) Purchase Award, Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Arkansas State University. (2000) Publication, New American Paintings, Number 27, Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA. (2000) Publication, Sandy Point, Afaa Weaver, Woodengravings by Rosalyn Richards, Press of Appletree Alley, Lewisburg, PA.
Dispersion, 2008. Etching, 11.875” x 11.875”
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R u s s Sp i t k o v s k y Brooklyn, New York
p r o f ess i o n :
Self-employed artist and creator of Carrier Pigeon Magazine. Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Monitor, 2006–present Commissioned painting, 2005– present. Stocks & Commodities Magazine, freelance illustrator, 2003–present. E D U C A T IO N :
MFA, Printmaking, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2009. BFA, Printmaking, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2003.
Exhibitions and Awards
(2009) Jerusalem Print Workshop, Print Artists from New York, Jerusalem, Israel. (2009) Visual Arts Gallery, Thesis Show, Manhattan, NY. (2008) A View From the Shadows, Pyramida: Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel. (2008) A Stone’s Throw: A Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Exchange Show, The LA Art Core, The Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA. (2008) The Book Show, Credible Correspondence (Travels of the imagination), Visual arts Gallery, The Call of Cthulhu, Manhattan, NY. (2008) Participant in The Peaceable Kingdom print portfolio, in the process of being acquired by the Brooklyn Museum. (2008) The Art of Democracy, The Gramercy Arts Club, Manhattan, NY. (2008) New Yorker’s by New Yorker’s, The First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, NY. (2008) Animalia Anima—The Soul of the Animal, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY.
Bulls and Bears, 2003. Etching, 23” x 29”
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I v a n k o Ta l e v s k i Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
p r o f ess i o n :
Lecturer of Intaglio Printmaking, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania E D U C A T IO N :
MFA, University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, Philadelphia, PA, 2008. BFA,Maryland Institute College of Art, B.F.A. in Painting, Baltimore, MD, 2006.
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI, 2002.
Exhibitions and Awards
(2013) Ivanco Talevski, People’s Theater of Gevgelija, Gevgelina, Republic of Macedonia. (2012) Ivanco Talevski, Magaza Galerija, Museum and Institute of Art of Bitola, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. (2013) Global Print 2013, Curated by Nuno Canelas, Douro, Portugal. (2013) New Prints/New Narratives, summer 2013, Selected by Andrew Raftery, IPCNY, NY. (2013) Editions|Artists’ Book Fair, represented by the Prints Center of Philadelpia, NY. (2012) 2012 Editions|Artists’ Book Fair Preview, The Print Center, Philadelphia. (2012) Invitational Printmaking Exhibition, Miller Gallery at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. (2012) Graphic Art of the Balkan Countries, Triennale Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland. (2012) 7th Print Triennial, Museum and Institute of Art of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. (2011) Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant.
Portrait, 2009. Etching, 36” x 24” P R I N T M A K I N G I N V I TAT I O N A L
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Rochelle Toner Philadelphia, PA
p r o f ess i o n :
Professor Emeritus, Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. 2002–Present. Dean, Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. 1989-2002. E D U C A T IO N :
MFA, Painting and Printmaking, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1970. MA, Art and Art Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1968. BA, Art and Art Education, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, 1962.
These watercolor drawings and prints, as well as the other drawings and prints that Toner has made over the past few years, have the collective title Nature, Pleasure, and Innuendo. In her work she is fascinated by the way abstraction evolves from a process of observing, distilling, and internalizing information in a synthesis of conscious and sub-conscious interactions. Toner’s work explores the juncture between abstraction and representation, the point at which the referent may be felt in the work without the intrusion of the literal. w w w. r o c h e l l et o ner . c o m
Exhibitions and Awards
(2011) Finlandia Portfolio: Response to Tom of Finland, Bixby Hall, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO. (2010) Forty Years of Nature, Pleasure and Innuendo, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA (2010) Inside and Outside the Clamshell Box, Group Show, Delaware County Community College, Media PA. (2010) A Survey of Contemporary Prints, Wellington Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville NC. (2010) Selections from C.R. Ettinger Studio 2000-2010, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA. (2010) Mark/Remarque Portfolio, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA. (2010) Colorprint USA, 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX. (2010) Contemporary Printmaking Symposium Panel, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. (2010) Printmaker Emeritus, Southern Graphics Council. (2009) Resident Fellow, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland.
Memory’s Ghosts, 2006. Etching on Arches Cover white paper, 10” x 10”
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B r u c e Wa l d m a n Westfield, New Jersey
p r o f ess i o n :
Printmaking Instructor,The Printmaking Workshop, New York City Professor, School of Visual Arts, NYC Director, New York Society of Etchers Creative Director, SW Graphics Inc. E D U C A T IO N :
MFA,State University of New York, Buffalo BFA, Philadelphia College of Art
Exhibitions and Awards
(2010) Line Art Expo, Ghent, Belguim/ Gallery Ginza Ichome, Tokyo, Japan. (2010) Sacred Gallery, Soho—New York City. (2010) Tides Gallery, Asbury Park, New Jersey. (2010) Flat Iron Gallery, Peekskill, New York. (2010) Museum of American Illustration, New York City. (2010) Henrick Hudson Free library/Exhibition Center, New York. (2009) Jerusalem Print Workshop, Jerusalem, Israel. (2009) Ginza Icchome Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2009. (2004) Silver Medal in the Book category of the 45th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Illustrators. (2001) TV Interview, New York Daytime TV Channel 12, “The Art of two Brothers”.
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