Beyond the Norm International Juried Print Exhibition is in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Normal Editions Workshop.
Dwaine
Marquise Gibbs
18 inches x 21 inches
linocut
2016
Juror's Choice Award selected by Susan Tallman
All The Queerness That's Fit To Print: The Abilene Reporter News 1967-75
Amy Cousins
articles collaged from the artist's mother's hometown paper from 1967-75
58 inches x 47 inches x 7 inches
screenprint on mulberry paper, buttons, wood, and foam
2015
Curators' Choice Award selected by the curators of University Galleries
Garage #3
Sean P. Morrissey
22 inches x 15 inches
screenprint
2015
Renaissance Graphic Arts, Inc. Award selected by Susan Tallman
APACHE HELICOPTER 88 8 mm
Lara Vaienti
selected from a series about terrorism
22 inches x 30 inches
intaglio copper etching / aquatint / rust monotype
2016
Hiromi Paper, Inc. Award selected by Susan Tallman
Covert II
Richard Hricko
20 inches x 15 inches
copperplate photogravure on Somerset Satin paper
2016
Takach Press Corporation Award selected by Susan Tallman
Spored Growth Version II
Claire LaFontaine
approximately 4 feet x 4 feet (installed)
screen printed and folded paper
2015
Hiromi Paper, Inc. Award selected by Susan Tallman
Biocosmic Wave
Karen Kunc
21 inches x 28 inches
woodcut
2013
Renaissance Graphic Arts, Inc. Award selected by Susan Tallman
Otherside 3
Matthew McLaughlin
8 inches x12 inches
woodcut
2016
Takach Press Corporation Award selected by Susan Tallman
3:20 a.m.
Donald Furst
12 inches x 12 inches
mezzotint
2015
Honorable Mention Award selected by Emeritus Professors of Art Richard D. Finch and James D. Butler
American Dream: Lightning Storm with Grass
Kristen Bartel
22 inches x 22 inches
stone lithography with inkjet
2015
Honorable Mention Award selected by Emeritus Professors of Art Richard D. Finch and James D. Butler
Traced (Tangle)
Amanda Knowles
35.25 inches x 23.25 inches
screenprint & acrylic on paper
2014
Honorable Mention Award selected by Emeritus Professors of Art Richard D. Finch and James D. Butler
Aquatint IV
Kristina Key
8 inches x 12 inches
aquatint copper etching
2016
Honorable Mention Award selected by Emeritus Professors of Art Richard D. Finch and James D. Butler
Eye
Erika Adams
11 inches x 14 inches
maniere noire lithograph
2014
I see you, I see you too
Erika Adams
5.5 inches x 7 inches x .25 inches
collaborative letterpress book
2015
Gnatcatchers (with Ledger Paper)
Emily Arthur
40 inches x 26 inches
monoprint, screenprint
2016
Pyrocumulus, Carbon Black
Frances Ashforth
15.5 inches x 16 inches
akua waterbase ink monotype
2014
Bird Cage
AWG
20 inches x 16 inches x 14 inches
bird cage and offset newsprint
2014
TheCornfield
Judy Bergman Hochberg
9.5 inches x 17 inches
photopolymer gravure on Magnani Pescia paper
2014
DO IT JUST
Craig Briar
41.5 inches x 29 inches
Ultra-violet twenty layer screen print
2015
Presence
Mary Brodbeck
14 inches x 10.25 inches
woodblock
2015
That Body
Julia DePinto
5 inches x 7 inches
CMYKscreenprint
2016
Yippie Yi Yo
L J Douglas
8.25 inches x 10 inches
monoprint, collagraph, paper lithography
2016
Cold War
Amze Emmons
22 inches x 30 inches
lithograph
2014
North LCX
Bob Erickson
12 inches x 15 inches
digital inkjet, graphite wash liquid graphite on Azuka paper
2016
Otis III
Kirsten Flaherty
8.5 inches x 9 inches, paper: 15 inches x 16 inches
mezzotint
2015
Black Mary; or Molly, 'Princess of Wales'
Joscelyn Gardner
Animated video 33:41 minutes
print-based animated video (experimental opera) stages the life of Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, whose 1831 narrative was instrumental in furthering Britain's abolitionist movement. Mary's story is performed on a replica toy theatre stage using live footage and digital animation of the printed / paper components.
2016
Reasonable Doubt
Ruthann Godollei
8.25 inches x 12.5 inches
screenprint
2015
Girl With Blivet Pendant Wearing a Mobius Strip as a Hat
Ellen Heck
16 inches x 22 inches
woodcut, drypoint, hand painting
2016
Hunting
Megan Hinds
6 inches x 10 inches x 8inches
wooden box with 5 peeping holes, interior is filled with mirrors, LED lights, and intaglio and monotype printed paper sculpted dragonflies
2015
Swimming
Mary Hood
18 inches x 36 inches
copper photogravure with white ground aquatint and
monotype on mulberry paper
2016
In the Words of Mendeleev
Sarah Hulsey
a re-imagining of Dmitri Mendeleev's Periodic Law of the Elements as a word frequency chart
18 inches x 13 inches
woodcut, letterpress
2014
The Gloaming
Anita Hunt
image size: 6 inches x 6 inches, paper size: 14 inches x 11 inches
drypoint with chine colle on handmade gampi and Magnani Pescia
2014
Orange Drop
Travis Janssen
24 inches x 24 inches x 1.5 inches
archival inkjet on stretched book cloth
2014
Garden Weeds
Sarojini Johnson
6.5 inches x 8.5 inches x 3 inches
artists book made with prints from glass and metal
2014
Cold Lapse
Tressa Jones
24 inches x 11 inches
Material: screenprint on Thai kozo paper
2016
Belladonna
Raeleen Kao
image: 4 inches x 3 inches, paper: 8 inches x 7 inches
3 plate etching and aquatint on Hahnemuhle German Etch
2015
Landscape 18
Elizabeth Klimek
10.5 inches x 13 inches
lithograph
2015
Micro Fauna Specimen 4
Don Krumpos
5.5 inches x 5.5 inches
intaglio
2015
Amplitud Modulation II
Enrique Leal
22 inches x 30 inches
silkscreen white acrylic ink on Magnani Pescia paper
2015
First Visit, Last Day
Amanda Lee
18 inches x 24 inches
silkscreen on canvas mounted on panel
2015
'A DRUNK MAN...'
Joseph Lupo
10 inches x 8.5 inches
CMYK silkscreen
2016
Proceed Onward from Here, Again
Amanda Maciuba
8 inches x 5 inches x 66 inches expanded
letterpress printed artists book:
reduction woodcut, photopolymer plates & trace monotype
2015
I Forgot
Kim Morski
23.75 inches x 19inches
reduction woodcut
2015
Designed to Endure: Quick(en) Opportunity
Kristin Powers Nowlin
19 inches x 13 inches
woodblock
2014
Motif From ISU Greenhouse Selections I
Gregory Page
38 inches x 30 inches
lithograph
2013
Watermelon Room #2
Erin Potter
15 inches x 20 inches
lithograph
2015
Cascade
Ellen Price
25 inches x 17 inches
xerox-transfer, drypoint, relief
2014
Man in the Mirror
Marzi Rahmani
closed book in collaboration with Poet Yusef Amiri using prints of "A Man in the Mirror" and "Exhumation" poems
7 inches x 7 inches x 4 inches
intaglio (engraving), mezzotint, letterpress, inkjet print, lithograph, Coptic binding
2014
Form #4
Marilee Salvator
inspired by invasive cancer cells created through hand cut pieces of wood with prints attached to two layers
22 inches x 11 inches x 1.25 inches
etching, wood, velcro
2016
Ash Verse, For Detroit
Nick Satinover
16 inches x 21inches
color lithography, hand cutting and graphite drawing
2014-2015
Creature Forest
Kelly Schmidt
image of handmade paper sculpture installation
8 inches x 8 inches
photogravure
Year: 2015
Indian Rhino
Caroline Thorington
20 inches x 26 inches
hand pulled lithograph: tusche washes and crayon
2015
Artifact #4
Dana Tosic
20 inches x 28 inches
screenprint on Somerset Satin
2016
Fancy Shawl Dancer
Linda Whitney
24 inches x 18 inches
hand rocked copper mezzotint
2016
Each to Other, II
Ken Wood
relief print
22 inches x 20 inches
2015
Awards
Juror's Choice Award
Selected by Susan Tallman
Dwaine
by Marquise Gibbs, linocut, 2016
A one-week collaborative printing session with Normal Editions Workshop. This extraordinary award grants the selected artist the opportunity to collaborate with NEW to produce an edition of prints. The award includes funding toward housing and travel expenses as well as materials and supplies for the completion of the project. Specific details including scale and complexity of the piece will be negotiated between the winning artist and NEW and NEW reserves the right to make final determinations regarding the scope of the project.
Curator's Choice Award
Selected by the University Galleries curatorial staff: Barry Blinderman (Director), Kendra Paitz (Senior Curator), and Jason Judd (Curator).
All The Queerness That's Fit To Print: The Abilene Reporter News 1967-75
by Amy Cousins, serigraph, paper, buttons, wood, and foam, 2015
A one-person exhibition in the project space at University Galleries of Illinois State University. The exhibition will take place during the 2017-2018 season.
Additional Prizes
Selected by the juror
Gift Certificates provided by: Hiromi Paper, Inc.; Renaissance Graphic Arts, Inc.; and Takach Press Corporation
Hiromi Paper, Inc. Awards
Spored Growth Version II
by Claire LaFontaine, serigraph on folded paper, 2015
APACHE HELICOPTER 88 8 mm
by Lara Vaienti, etching, aquatint, and rust monotype, 2016
Renaissance Graphic Arts, Inc. Awards
Garage #3
by Sean P. Morrissey, serigraph, 2015
Biocosmic Wave
by Karen Kunc, woodcut, 2013
Takach Press Corporation Awards
Covert II
by Richard Hricko, photogravure, 2016
Otherside 3
by Matthew McLaughlin, woodcut, 2016
Honorable Mentions
Selected by Richard Finch, Professor Emeritus of Art and former Director of Normal Editions Workshop and James Butler, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art, Illinois State University
3:20 a.m.
by Donal Furst, mezzotint, 2015
American Dream: Lightning Storm with Grass
by Kristen Bartel, lithograph and inkjet, 2015
Traced (Tangle)
by Amanda Knowles, serigraph and acrylic, 2014
Aquatint IV
by Kristina Dey, etching and aquatint, 2016