Connecting Collaborators
This is an online group show in celebration of Normal Editions’ 45th Anniversary. Connecting Collaborators is created in the spirit of connecting all Normal Editions Alumni, whether they be students, faculty, staff, or printmaking student alumni. Our goal is to create something accessible to everyone with computer access and cater to our alumni spread around the country and internationally. In a post-COVID world, Normal Editions strives to embrace all ways of interacting with works of art. The exhibition online is ever changing going live in October with additions through December 18th. Works will be uploaded as they are received by Normal Editions. Artists connected in various ways to Normal Editions are invited to submit one image representing their art. The exhibition highlights a wide variety in message, content, and methods representing the individual artist’s choices.
Veda Rives Aukerman in collaboration with Meda Rives Smith
8’ H x 8’ W x 12’ D
Artists’ Book: pigmented handmade paper, threads, and branches
2022
The healing power of water soothes and rejuvenates the body and soul. "Consider the Waters Sacred" celebrates this transformative relationship. Water often signifies cleansing, purification, anointing, blessing, rebirth, connection, and/or protection. This collaborative artists’ book features imagery created during the papermaking process. It is part of our series of BookEnviron installations, featuring forms and rhythms of nature whose beauties and mysteries resonate with all faith traditions, providing an interfaith language for the spirit. This visual language is free of specific written language, cultural, and religious doctrine, encouraging viewers to interpret the book through their own individual experiences, beliefs, and aspirations.
Julia Heatherwick
Life Signs
12"x24"
impasto wax, encaustic wax, oil on wood panel
2022
I live in the northern California redwoods. This piece is about renewal and where you find death you will find life. <a href="http://www.breakinggroundstudio.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.breakinggroundstudio.com</a>,
@jheatherwick
Kaelin
'Queer Armor 01'
16" x 16"
Intaglio x Drawing on cream white BFK 115 GSM paper
2021
This artwork was made in the exploration and investigation of what 'queer armor' could consist of, what that could look like, and what makes something 'queer'.
website:
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instagram: @studio_kaelin / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/studio_kaelin/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.instagram.com/studio_kaelin/</a> instagram: Occentatia/ <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_occentatia_/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.instagram.com/_occentatia_/</a>
Nicci Arnold
Essential Items
2020
16 x 20 inches
reductive woodcut
2021
Website: <a href="http://www.narnoldprints.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.narnoldprints.com</a>
Instagram: @narnold_prints
Mary Jane Parker
Masked
24 x 36 inches
2022
There is something about drawing with a soft pencil on a velvet-like surface that cannot be matched. No matter what is going on in my head or what stress I have in my life, touching pencil to paper soothes me. It is direct, low-tech and flows from within. Drawing is the foundation that my work is built on. My recent drawings are created with graphite and gouache, The marks are delicate and quiet. In these pieces I use intricately drawn patterns to suggest wallpaper or vine filled walls. Against these, repetitive backgrounds, a figure is situated which both interrupts the order of the drawn pattern and becomes one with it. I enjoy the obsessive, time consuming nature of this kind of drawing. When I am drawing, I am most directly in touch with my inner thought processes. Drawing is just between the paper and me. It gives me time to think while doing.
Website:
<a href="http://www.maryjaneparkerart.com" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.maryjaneparkerart.com</a> #maryjaneparkerart
Nick Satinover
Time is a Distance (7)
14x16.5"
lithography
2021
For years I have probed the landscape of my surroundings for tangible and poetic examples of contrasting and contradictory experiences to reflect upon. Sensations of time have been the most ever-present. “Time is a Distance” utilizes formal strategies of symmetry, contrast, doubling, intervals, repetition, and pairing of visual with textual language as a structure in which to evoke ambivalent thinking. My hope in doing this is to reveal a series of statements and meditations about the complexity of being in time: past and present, internal and external, evocative and open, critical yet non-judgmental, personal and universal, collapsing and expanding.
Amy Schmierbach
Balance 01
10"x10"
collage, intaglio, ink, colored pencil, thread
2021
<a href="https://www.amyschmierbach.com/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.amyschmierbach.com/</a>
@amyschmierbach
Meda Rives Smith in collaboration with Veda Rives Aukerman
BookEnviron: Herron
20’ H x 29’ W x 40’ D
Artists’ Book: 64 pages, handmade paper, abaca fiber, iridescent pigment, threads, and branches
2019
By concept and scale, BookEnvirons create immersion experiences for the viewer who enters and explores the space shaped by the artists' book. "BookEnviron: Herron" is part of a series of unique large-scale collaborative handmade paper installations of viewer interactive environments exploring the theme of spaces set aside for contemplation. Inspired by nature, seeking the sublime, BookEnvirons call attention to the need in our daily lives for a place of quiet reflection, a place that inspires, a space that causes us to pause ̶ if only momentarily, for an experience of uplifting renewal.
mirrorimagepress.com
Tess Murphy
DWN
5"x 5"
Monotype
2021
@marie_toireasa
Peytin Fitzgerald
"27. you just need to cut the cord."
Textiles
4' x 2'
2022
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@peytinfitzgerald_art
Samantha Buchanan
Party Animal 2
22" x 18"
Monotype on fiberglass mesh & paper
2021
samantha-buchanan.com
Amanda Smith
Depression 2 - The Resurgence
8x6
One-color woodcut
2022
After experiencing a resurgence of my depression that I thought was beaten and long gone, I decided to bring the bastard to light instead of allowing it to hide in the shadows. This image allows me to "see" my depression and how it weaves through my brain. Hopefully, I can be better at recognizing how and when it shows up, in order to successfully manage it in the future.
Chris Hagen
Weather Eye: Torrent Interminable
19" x 21.25"
Monoprint Intaglio
2022
chrishagenstudio.com
Artists Included
Nicole Arnold, Veda Rives Aukerman, Samantha Buchanan, Peytin Fitzgerald, Chris Hagen, Julia Heatherwick, Kaelin, Tess Murphy, Mary Jane Parker, Nick Satinover, Amy Schmierbach, Amanda Smith, and Meda Rives Smith