I've been chosen to be the first Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence at Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. I'll be making a limited edition book, "River of Grass", that will accompany my show at 571 Projects in NYC in June. Follow my residency experience onfacebook.
While "Close to Home" usually refers to a geographic proximity, in this work, it references my ongoing involvement with women's issues. Chosen from work produced over almost two decades, these books and book-like forms include collaged pieces using one of the first color Xerox machines in 1990 and one of the first large format digital prints in 1993. Combining technology and traditional artist tools, my work continues to explore meaning through process.
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, February 17- March 25
Opening February 17, 6 - 8 pm
Correspondence 9th International Book Art Festival in Poland
The Opening Reception was January 7, 2012 at Plocka Galeria Sztuku, Plock, Poland
The
2012 Exhibition Schedule includes:
Marzec [March] – Galeria Miejska, Tarnów
Kwiecien [April] – Ksi??nica Pomorska, Szczecin
Maj [May] – Biblioteka Miejska, Lublin
Czerwiec [June] – Galeria Dwór Karwacjanów, Gorlice
Lipiec/Sierpie? [July/August] – Szklany Dom, Centrum Edukacyjne, Ciekoty, Dworek ?eromskiego
w planach Kielce – towarzysz?ce w nowym Centrum Design
Wrzesie? [September] – Biblioteka ?l?ska, Katowice
Listopad [October ]– MCK BWA, Nowy S?cz
In Seth Apter's "The Pulse", he conducts a survey in words and pictures of the online artist community. More than 130 artists have answered a series of questions and their responses are presented in online posts every Sunday. My response to his question, 'The one technique or tool that you cannot live without is…' appears in the section 'Techniques & Tools'.
Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of baghdad bookselling and the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community, was devastated by a car bomb on March 5th, 2007. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
More than 250 book artists, including about 30 from the Boston area, are making books related to the tragic incident. Internationally, a series of exhbitions will be coordinated by Beau Beausoleil and Sara Bodman. In the Boston area, Jessica Ferguson is coordinating the efforts and a website, "Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here - Boston", has been posted.
My book, Fragile, is a volume wrapped in paper on which the words "Fragile, Handle with care" have been stenciled then crossed out. The message, "Damaged beyond repair, Discard", remains. The packaged book, tied tightly with twine and not meant to be opened, focuses on the irreparable loss.
Ania Gilmore, curator, selected 15 artists from the US and the UK to be a part of "Correspondence 9th International Book Art Festival" in Poland. Two books, HERetic and Losing Ground, are included in the traveling exhibition.
This work. from the series "Visions". relates to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Kahn or, A Vision in a Dream, A Fragment", composed in 1797 after an opium influenced dream. Coleridge's vision is of a savage place, with holy and enchanted caverns, walls, towers and a sacred river where "The shadow of the dome of pleasure floated midway on the waves". These haunting images of submerged architectural passageways, lit from within, reflect the branches of trees and illuminate floating leaves and flowers.
At the opening Krause will sign copies of the trade edition of her artist book, "Visions". Using images related to the work shown in the gallery, the book incorporates Coleridge's poem.
A review by Susan Boulanger is in the July-August 2011 issue of Art New England.
Landing Gallery, Bruce Busko, Director
8 Elm Street, across from the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
July 1 - 31
An online gallery featuring 31 printmakers from 11 countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, UK, USA) taken from of Further... curated by Scott Betz is based on the book "Printmaking on the Edge" by Richard Noyce. Additional information on the exhibit, the book and Krause piece "Technology" is available.
While conceptually portals may refer to grand and imposing entrances, it may also refer to creative or technological gateways to other realms. The artists of Digital Atelier, Dorothy Simpson Krause, Karin Schminke and Bonny Lhotka, will use lenticular printmaking technology, phantograms, and other ways of presenting dimensional imagery to present a body of work that explores the concept of Portals as both a present reality and as a bridge to artificial worlds past, present and future.
Curated by Craig Bloodgood, ACM Contemporary Curator, May 15th - July 17
Four small copper and encaustic pieces by Krause have been included by curator Zola Solamente in this show. Using locks and dimensional letters, the four pieces spell "amor".
In "Digital Printmaking: Place, Time, Vision" Carol Pulin writes about the work of Digital Atelier artists, Bonny Lhotka, Karin Schminke and Krause. Of Krause work Pulin says:
She explores the physical and metaphorical connections between light and vision–light needed for illumination, reflection for contemplation, perception for seeing ... The details of the imagery become a language, an attempt to translate from visual to intellectual experience, to show the viewer what the artist's mind sees.
Carol Pulin, Director of the American Print Alliance and Editor, Contemporary Impressions: The Journal of the American Print Alliance. Vol 19, No 2, Winter 2011, pp 12 - 15
A solo show of Krause work from the series "Visions" was at 571 Projects in NYC, March 3 - April 16.
Krause's work highlights the mystery of architectural space and light: doorways, windows, and hallways from which light either shines or recedes into blackness. Ethereal and menacing, her work conveys the poetry of space and light, alluding to spiritual transitions, and ultimately, life and death.
Recommending, Krause's "Visions", at 571 Projects, as one of three"must-see" shows in Chelsea in March, Seth Apter has written in NearSay: Krause combined digital technology with mixed media to create a series of haunting images of submerged architectural passageways, lit from within. Her use of Polaroid emulsion transfer, silver leaf, fresco, and brushed aluminum contributes to the dream-like feel of her paintings.
An interview by Christina Doyle appears on the Create Mixed Media website. The piece shown is from the series "Visions", a 12" x 12" pigment transfer to copper.
Work from the series will be shown at:
a solo show at 571 Projects in NYC, March 3 - April 16, Opening Thursday, March 3, 6 to 9 pm;
a Digital Atelier show at the Art Complex Museum, in Duxbury, MA, May 15 - July 17, opening Sunday, May 22, 1:30 to 3:30 pm; and
a solo show at Landing Gallery in Rockland, ME in July, opening Friday, July 1, 5 to 8pm.
The work featured by Gordon, in all of her postings, are well worth exploring.
The Luminous Landscape at McGladrey Art Gallery
"The Luminous Landscape: Six artists working in encaustic", is at McGladrey Art Gallery, 80 City Square, Charlestown, MA, February 28 - May 21, with a reception March 2, 5:30 - 7:30.
Curated by Christina Godfrey, the exhibit includes encaustic work by Linda Cordner, Charyl Weissbach, Tracy Spadafora, Gregory Wright, Diane Bowie Zaitlin and 4 pieces by Krause.
Designed to provide weekly projects for a year of creative exploration, this book, edited by Tonia Davenport, includes a range of interesting explorations by Michael deMeng, Claudine Hellmuth, Krause and other North Light artists.
Krause section, taken from Book + Art, shows how digital images can be printed on top of acrylic paste paintings to create work more complex than could be achieved by either process alone.
Author E. Ashley Rooney has selected one hundred artists who share the distinctiveness of New England, including Krause, whose portrait is on the cover. Oil paintings, glass and metal sculptures, and works in wood offer a fresh look at this region's long, rolling hills and famous autumn colors. She includes histories of the art colonies, including Rockport-Gloucester and Provincetown, Massachusetts; Monhegan Island and Ogunquit, Maine; Old Lyme and Cos Cob, Connecticut; and North Conway, Cornish Colony, and MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire. It will be a great resource for artists, collectors, and art dealers, as well as art historians.
This 8.5" x 11" book, published by Schiffer Books, has 224 pages with 567 color and 30 b/w photographs. Listed at $45, it can be purchased from Amazon for $29.70.
A retrospective of Krause work will be at Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, Texas February 21 - March 26.
The images, chosen from series spanning more than a decade include a range of processes. One of the pieces in the exhibition, Black Gold, was created when Krause was von Hess Visiting Artist at The University of the Arts Borowsky Center, Philadelphia. Printed on their Heidelberg Offset Lithography press with silver, gold and black inks, the print was inset with a chine colle inkjet print on sheer paper.
Black Gold references our dependence on oil and the damage to the environment caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
At PBI 2010 at the University of Maine at Machias, Krause became the 99th book artist to be interviewed by Steve Miller, coordinator of the MFA in the Book Arts Program at The University of Alabama. You can get a good insight into the inspirations and aspirations of many of the artists and poets in the field in these podcasts.
Select the "Podcast interviews with book artists" from the menu on the bookarts.ua.edu site then click the "Play Podcast" icon below each photograph to listen on your computer.
Carry On
Krause is one of twenty New England artists invited 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 was November 18 - December 14.
Confluence: The Art of the Digital Atelier
With Karin Schminke and Bonny Lhotka, Krause work was shown at the Pearson Lakes Art Center in Lake Okoboji, Iowa July 22 through November 6. This exhibition celebrated 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.
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 at 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.
