Contemporary printmaking is both shaped by tradition and innovation. This exhibition showcases the variety of ways that contemporary artists approach printmaking from employing traditional techniques to more alternative methods and materials. It is a celebration of the staying power of age-old techniques and the spirit of innovation that printmakers embrace to combine the tradition with contemporary technologies and approaches. Printmaking techniques such as intaglio, woodcut, lithography, silkscreen, collagraph and monotype will be on display.
Boriana Kantcheva, Director of Visual Arts, teams up with well-known artist and educator Rhoda Rosenberg to curate this exciting exhibition designed to showcase local and national printmaking talent.
Rhoda Rosenberg has been making prints since 1972 and has been teaching printmaking since 1982 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has had the honor on four occasions to be a Visiting Fellow at Artists Proof Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa. Rhoda Rosenberg’s printmaking has evolved over the years from an abstract focus on shapes to a focus on images of personal memory, such as her grandmother’s pocketbook and her brother’s glasses. Ms. Rosenberg has also made one-of-a-kind books because she wanted to create a three-dimensional object with prints that could have a narrative component. Those books include text, often handwritten, and have bindings that connect to the content of the book. Katherine French, Curator, Director emerita of the Danforth Museum of Art has observed, “Rhoda’s work is a lens through which she views her own past, one that is artistically complex and filled with intelligent emotion”. Ms. Rosenberg’s prints are owned by seven public collections, among them the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, and The Art Complex Duxbury and Artists Proof in Johannesburg, as well as by many private collectors. She has had 16 solo exhibitions, including Retrospective: Shapes of Time” in 2023 at Concord Art and The Shape of Memory at the Danforth. Her work has been included in 60 group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Featured image: Lisa Barthelson, aii form 1a, art in isolation, family debris
Join us for the Opening Reception, Thursday May 29, 5:30-7:30 PM
