Midwest Matrix: Continuum
Exhibition: August 29 – October 1, 2014
Symposium: September 19–21
Grunwald Art Gallery
Indiana University
Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts
Studio Art Department
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Bloomington, IN 47405
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Midwest Matrix: Continuum artists exhibiting:
Jennifer Anderson (Roanoke, VA), Ellie Honl (Bloomington, IN), James Bailey (Missoula, MT), Anita Jung (Iowa City, IA), Wendy Calman (Bloomington, IN), Michael Krueger (Lawrence, KS), Jason Clark (Missoula, MT), Karen Kunc (Avoca, NE), Carmon Colangelo (St. Louis, MO), Carrie Lingscheit (Chicago, IL), Tyler Ferreira (Long Beach, CA), Joseph Lupo (Morgantown, WV), Oscar Gillespie (Peoria, IL), Kristen Martincic (Roswell, NM), Susan Goldman (Fairfax, VA), Danielle Peters (Emporia, KS), Dusty Herbig (Syracuse, NY), Roxanne Sexauer (Long Beach, CA), John Hitchcock (Madison, WI), Starr Varner (Georgetown, TX)
Midwest Matrix: Continuum explores the “Midwestern tradition” of printmaking, with over 20 artists highlighting this history and spotlighting the next generation of artists. Susan Goldman, director of Lily Press in Rockville, MD, and former professor of printmaking and master printer for Navigation Press at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, created the documentary. Midwest Matrix. This film explores the history of printmaking in the American Midwest. European expatriate artists and their students, after World War II, either transformed existing works or established influential workshops and printmaking departments at Midwestern universities. Goldman's documentary examines the strong sense of community that prevails and how it continues to manifest itself. Mentors of this Midwest printmaking tradition will exhibit alongside nominating former students, who have gone on to have active careers of their own.
Dennis McNett, one of those former students, will create a print installation in conjunction with the “Midwest Matrix: Continuum” symposium. His installation, titled Wolfbat Offerings: Blooming Grove and the Luck of the Cardinal, will focus on the cardinal as Indiana's state bird with a rich mythological history. Midwest Matrix articulates a history and legacy of printmaking in the American Midwest and poses the question: What is the “Midwestern tradition” of printmaking?
This exhibit is presented in conjunction with the symposium “Midwest Matrix: Continuum” at Indiana University September 19-21. More information about the symposium can be found here here.
These exhibits and corresponding programs were made possible by The College Arts and Humanities Institute, the Grunwald Gallery of Art, and the Printmaking Laboratory, all at Indiana University, and by Wendy Calman and Homer Hogle, Susan Goldman and Jeffrey Owens, and Carolyn O. Goldman.
