About the Exhibition

Each year, A/P holds a non-juried show and sale to showcase the work of local and international print artists, and to raise funds towards Alberta Printmakers artistic and educational programming. A/P invites all interested printmakers to submit an edition of ten 8” x 10” prints that relates to the theme of transition for exhibition and exchange in the Artist Proof Gallery. Each participant will receive 8 prints created by other artists, and A/P will retain 2 works from each edition for sale in our studio and gallery. 

Artists included in the exhibition:

 Maria Doering, Trish Hondzel, Jenny Hamilton, Jessica Lanigan, Scott Baird, Irén Gibson, Anna Desramaux, Rob Lemerweyer, Aldon Alfon, T. Knudsen, John Abram, Carrie Phillips-Kieser, Jolie Bird, Trevor Gieske, Kate Baillies, Alison Frank, Claire Coutts, Tamara Deedman, Jeanette Lazar, Marcus Jackson, Joshua Brien, Cate Kuzik, Bonnie Baker, Hannah Genosko,  Golriz Rezvani, Maria Nowak, Melissa Roa, Tyler Zurawel, Barbara Sutherland, Nora Morris, Christine Nalder, Sally Mayne, Anne Petrie, Amanda West, Kaitlin Reckorel, Ash Slemming, Nicole Schlosser, Evan Smibert Marie Winters, Lisa Turner, Shinobu Mitsuhashi

interweave is a diptych of intaglio prints that toys with representation of the intrinsic duality of one’s desire to find reason, structure, placement juxtaposed with the pleasures of losing oneself within the irrational, the letting go of conformity and expectations. On one side the well crafted stitch stands in as the crafted life that we consciously work to build, and the other is the wild nature of letting go. Within both sides, lie beauty and darkness, foreboding and anticipation.

Threshold Figures are a series of lithograph prints composed of abstracted elements from Gustave Dore’s illustrations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy; figurative compositions constructed from manipulated 19th century interpretations of 14th century super-sensible landscapes. Dante and Dore provide the framework to discuss the transition from figuration to transfiguration. Threshold Figures are invested in representation and interpretation; with breaking down traditional print methods while simultaneously honouring them. Through the conceptualization and materialization of these prints, the artist is confronted with the disparity between the printing press and the internet; with how these different methods of information production and consumption have influenced thought (static versus amorphous).

Glass is a generative tool when I use it. It is a hand tool, a substrate, a filter, and a set of parameters. The prints presented in Distillation are the direct result of the material used in those contexts. They are drawings of ground and polished glass objects, abstracted using rules derived from the glass’s material qualities, and hand printed with glass plates. In this way, the images have become my distillation of the quiet, yet commanding presence of the material.

This is an etching of a half of a red cabbage that I prepared and ate in my kitchen. To monumentalize an object is to give it weight and imbue it with importance. Because of the necessity of nourishment in our everyday lives, as well as our often negative interactions with food as affected by body image and time constraints, we frequently forget that eating can be a simple and joyful act. The use of colour, pattern, and size in this work is meant to be inviting, friendly and accessible in order to convey a simple message of delight.