Krause is one of twenty New England artists asked to participate in this exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum, related to Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990), considered by many to be among the finest books about the Vietnam War. The work selected by Curator Mim Fawcett, is from Krause's Vietnam Journal series which is a part of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection. The exhibition is November 18 - December 14. The Opening Reception is November 18 at 5:30 pm.
Confluence: The Art of the Digital Atelier
With Karin Schminke and Bonny Lhotka, Krause work will be shown at the Pearson Lakes Art Center in Lake Okoboji, Iowa July 22 through November 6. This exhibition celebrates their many years of collaboration and the confluence of their joint experience and explorations.
Both a printed catalog and a PDF catalog of the exhibit are available.
Book Power
Laura Russell has curated Losing Ground into the exhibit "Book Power" at 23 Sandy Gallery June 3 - 26. The artist books in the exhibit address the social, political or environmental issues of our times. The pages Losing Ground can be seen in a page turning flipbook, and information on the production and be seen in the process section.
Krause work is included in several recent publications
Kensington Stobart Gallery hosts a group exhibition of encaustic artists, Luminous Landscape, June 1 - June 30. The Artist Reception is Thursday, June 10. "Ice Palace", a 12" x 12" pigment print on aluminum with encaustic is one of Krause pieces which will be shown.
Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists’ Books
Book + Art focuses on content and suggests simple and elegant ways of presenting it in book form. Published by North Light it has just been released. It covers:
• An introduction to bookmaking tools and common materials
• The basics of selecting paper and other substrates
• Traditional and digital ways to incorporate images and words
• How to utilize blank and altered books
• Simple handmade book structures including multiple examples of single sheet, glued and sewn books
• Covers
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Alternative presentations including unbound collections, boxes, sculptural forms and interactive books
Additional information about the contents and double page spreads from the book can be seen by clicking here or on the book image. On Amazon you can "look inside this book" and order it for $16.49.
As our global population increases exponentially, the effects of our actions are changing the environment. With global warming and the melting polar icecaps contributing to rising ocean levels, we are literally and figuratively losing ground.
The book, Losing Ground, was produced in three editions as an example of how exceptional artists books can be made by combining traditional processes and print-on-demand technology. Limited and deluxe editions of the 12" x 12" 44 page book were printed and bound by Acme and Harcourt Bindery. A 7" x 7" softcover open edition was printed by Blurb.
The pages in the book can be seen in a page turning flipbook, and information on the production and be seen in the process section.
The exhibition included both large-format pieces and artist books which combined traditional art materials and digital processes. The wall-hung pieces were printed primarily on uv cured flatbed printers on substrates such as aluminum and polycarbonate. The books include covers pigment printed on copper and engraved with a laser into wood.
A PDF file of the exhibition catalog with essays about the art can be opened in your browser or downloaded or the catalog below can be viewed full screen.
Alice B. Miller interviewed Krause and wrote about her work in the August/ September 2009 issue of AfterCapture. A PDF of the 4 page article "Pushing Boundaries: Dorothy Simpson Krause"can be downloaded or read online.
Of Krause's work Miller says: Layer upon layer, Dorothy Simpson Krause builds her exquisite, commanding imagery. A trailblazing digital imaging artist, painter and collage-maker for years, she has handcrafted some 100 books, documenting issues of global import and personal significance.
Krause work is featured in a chapter of Lisa Cyr's book, Art Revolution. Exploring alternative, innovative ways of conceptualizing and creating art that is on the cutting-edge, throughout this highly visual book, insightful and thought-provoking profiles of leading artists and illustrators accompany stellar, multi-media work. The book also provides insight into the historical influences behind contemporary thinking and approaches, investigating the origins of alternative, unconventional picture making throughout the decades.
In addition to Krause, other artists featured include: Marshall Arisman, Brad Holland, Dave McKean, Barron Storey, David Mack, Kazuhiko Sano, Fred Otnes, Michael Mew, Kathleen Conover, Rudy Gutierrez, Lynne Foster, Lisa L. Cyr, Cynthia von Buhler, Robert Maloney, Susan Leopold, AE Ryan, Matt Manley, Stephanie Dalton Cowan, Richard Tuschman and Camille Utterback. To be published by North Light in June 2009, it can be ordered in advance from Amazon.com.
Krause work is included in several recent publications
• Wands, Bruce. Art of the Digital Age, 2006, Thames & Hudson.
The series Viewpoint was shown at judi rotenberg gallery in 2007. A PDF catalog of the series may be viewed and/or downloaded. There is also a review of the exhibition by Cate McQuaid from the Boston Globe and an article by Sheryl Seyfert in South Shore Living magazine, "Intrusion Meets Infusion", focuses on this series. "Snowfence", from this series, won the Best Mixed Media award in the North River Arts Society's 2007 Festival of the Arts. An interview by Fabiano Busdraghi, featuring this work, is in the current issue of "Camera Obscura".
The American Print Alliance Traveling Exhibition of Work from the Digital Art Studio uses innovative techniques developed by artists Karin Schminke, Dorothy Simpson Krause, and Bonny Lhotka over the last ten years and documented in their best-selling book "Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials" published in 2004 by Watson-Guptill.
The exhibit premiered at the New Bedford Art Museum and was then shown at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN, Cape Cod Community College, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA and the Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, Palo Alto, CA. A partial 2008 schedule includes NAMTA (National Art Material Trade Association) Conference, Sponsored by Golden Artist Colors, Inc., in May and Rochester Institute of Technology, September - November.
A PDF prospectus for additional scheduling can be downloaded.
Shelter, curated by Janine Wong, traveled to the following exhibition sites in 2008- 09: Lasell College, Newton, MA, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Wells College, Aurora, NY.
Further: Printmaking on the Edge, will be at the Malone Gallery, Troy University, October 6 - November 13. Scott Betz is the curator of this Traveling Exhibition of artists from Richard Noyce's book. The book and exhibition are described below.
Richard Noyce's book, "Printmaking at the Edge" collects the images and ideas behind 45 artists from 16 countries and explores the innovative techniques printmakers are using today. The topics covered range from the challenges of new technology and materials (for example, the latest high-tech plates and specialty papers and inks) to the persistence of traditional techniques and the new directions they are taking (for example, digital techniques being used with silkscreen and wood engraving). All scales and stages of printmaking are dealt with. As the book became available in April 2006, Scott Betz began contacting the artists about a possible shared project that would help establish a greater sense of community between them. One of the most practical solutions, given the distance between participants would be to produce an edition for a print exchange portfolio, but how can a boxed set of prints qualify as "at the Edge"?
"Further ... Artists from the book Printmaking at the Edge" became the portfolio theme and title and the real challenge sent to the participants was to take their work further towards the "edge(s)" as Noyce writes in his book. The prints have been exhibited at Salem College (Winston-Salem, NC), Grafikos Galerija (Kaunas, Lithuania), Galleria Harmonia (Jyväskylä, Finland), The Frans Masereel Centre (Kasterlee, Belgium), Graficki Kolektiv Gallery (Serbia), the Galerie Hörnan (Falun, Sweden) as part of the Falun Print Triennia land at the Gustav Klimt Villa (Vienna, Austria). Additionally, the portfolio was presented at the Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. in March 2007.
Technology, included in the exhibition, is a scanned collage of plaster, metal and tar, a circuit board, an architectural drawing and a medical illlustration which were combined in Adobe Photoshop and printed with the HP 9180, 13" x 19" full bleed on Hahnemuhle smooth fine art paper.
In the catalog, Sabrina DeTurk, writes"Dot Krause holds a respected place in the history of American printmaking as one of the first print artists to embrace the possibilities inherent in digital technology. It is fitting, therefore, that her contribution to this portfolio should bear the title Technology and link together several motifs that have surfaced at various points in her work and career. The use of collage is a hallmark of Krause's work and serves her well in its ability to simultaneously reveal and obscure multiple layers in a work of art. In this image, the dense bottom portion of the print includes images of a computer circuit board atop a dark background.
This in turns gives way to red swath across the middle tier of the image and subsequently to a delicate anatomical drawing of the human nervous system and brain, highlighted against a pale background at the top.
What is the role that technology is meant to play in this image and, perhaps, in our world as a whole? Does the circuit board serve as the base from which human and structure (represented by an architectural drawing lying grid-like across two-thirds of the print) emerge? If so, should that base be seen as generative? Or is it problematic - pushed to the depths while human cognition rises into the light? I doubt that Krause's print is meant to answer those questions - rather, in keeping with the rest of her work, it encourages us to keep asking them." Sabrina DeTurk, Winston-Salem, NC
The Millennium Tarot, a 4.75” x 2.75” 78 card deck, is a modern adaptation of an ancient method for gaining insight into one’s life. The cards allow you to focus on the choices you have made in the past, the consequences in the present and the possible outcomes in the future.
Mary Taylor, who was for many years Manager of Krause' Viewpoint
Studio, works with other artists via MaryTaylorArt. She consults, teaches and makes her own award-winning art.
