In November of 2007 Krause was the Von Hess Visiting Artist at The University of the Arts Borowsky Center, Philadelphia. Additional information about the process is available.
An interview by Fabiano Busdraghi, featuring the work in the Viewpoint series, is in the current issue of "Camera Obscura".
Krause work is included in the following current and upcoming exhibitions:
Conceptually Bound 3, Nanette Wylde, Curator. Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View, CA April 1 - May 26.
Barrington Center for the Arts, Field Report, Boston Printmakers Traveling exhibition, Wenham, MA
Shelter, Janine Wong, Curator, Traveling exhibition, 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.

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.
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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
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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.
Galleries carrying Krause work include judi rotenberg gallery LLC, Walker Fine Art, 119 Gallery, Williams Gallery, Mulford Gallery, World Printmakers and Digital Atelier.
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.
The work of Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke can be seen on their individual websites, The work of the group is covered on the Digital
Atelier® website. You can purchase their best selling book Digital Art Studio: Techniques for combining inkjet printing with traditional art materials from Amazon.com. If you are interested in the American Print Alliance traveling exhibition of work related to the book, Work from the Digital Art Studio you can get more information or download a PDF prospectus.
Mary Taylor, Manager of Krause' Viewpoint
Studio, works with other artists via MaryTaylorArt. She consults, teaches and makes her own award-winning art.
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