Excited to share information about participants for PrintCamp 2019 Session One (June 1 - 9) at Printmakers Open Forum
In alphabetical order by last name...First up
CLAUDIA FIEO
WEBSITE:
https://www.claudiafieo.com/
ON HER WORK:
The persistent touchstones in my work have always been nature and natural forms; my artistic work lives in the crevices between recognizing the devastation our species has wrought and seeking to reconcile humankind with the earth from which we've sprung. Given the changing climate, I feel an even more urgent need to underscore the cultural and spiritual significance of Nature in our lives.
I also would greatly appreciate the camaraderie and conversation among printmakers, as I am eager to learn new ways of doing things that might better my artistic practice. I look forward to responding to new landscapes and sources of inspiration within the natural world, I would like to devote my time at Print Camp to develop printed backgrounds on Asian papers, to provide some grounding, and aspects of continuity in my artistic vision within a new body of work, which I hope to continue developing over the course of my sabbatical time frame.
The printmaking studio is where I can revel in the unexpected, in the interplay of marks and motifs, strata of information printed over time and in different locations, attempting to give fullest expression to my ideas as I reach for those tantalizing, ethereal glimpses of universal truths.
WHAT THEY WILL BE DOING AT PRINTCAMP2019:
I would like to explore a combination of techniques, including non-etch intaglio techniques, monotype, relief and pochoir on Asian papers, that would be compatible with over-printing strata of information for future collaged prints. If there were time and space, I would greatly enjoy learning more about how to incorporate screen printing into my work, would be compatible with over-printing strata of information for future collaged prints.
I am well-versed in several techniques, but I need more experimentation using Asian papers, registration methods for layering different media. I would also appreciate advice on best practices for streamlining materials to accommodate printmaking while traveling.
SKILLSHARE: I could demonstrate how to employ stencils (either laser-cut, vinyl-cut, or hand-cut to create a collagraph plate with “screenprinted” carborundum gel or how to construct silk organza collagraph plates in addition to found material collagraph plates; how to develop a series of prints using pochoir monoprinting techniques. I could also show a PowerPoint presentation of how I developed a cohesive body of work from a series of related collagraph plates using four printed colors on pre-stained papers.
EDUCATION
MFA Printmaking, Il Bisonte International School of Advanced Printmaking, Graduate School of Art, Florence, IT
MA Printmaking, Rosary College, Graduate School of Art at Villa Schifanoia, Florence
BFA Graphic Design Carnegie-Mellon U
SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Crossings and Transpositions, The University City Art Museum of the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy,
Guangzhou, China ( April 2019)
Digital Exhibition: Blue Wave, Zea Mays Printmaking, curated by Lynn Peterfreund
2018 On Paper/Under Glass, Contemporary Prints from the Permanent Collection, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
2017 Vision/Revision, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
The Unity of Opposites, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2016 The Unity of Opposites, A.P.E Gallery, North Hampton, MA
Pressing On, University of Rhode Island, Main Art Gallery, Wakefield, RI
2015 Unique Impressions V, Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts, Medfield, MA
