Fragile 2011
Karen Kunc, USA
| Karen Kunc, Blue Heron
Press, USA, 2011 This book is a visual memorium, containing pages of cracks from worn surfaces, piles of stones, smoke clouds, a maze of ruins and minutia, as a handheld offering for slow reflection. In this way such details grow into meaningfulness, backgrounded by the ongoing news of natural disasters and human tragedies, which continue everyday and everywhere. Excerpts of texts by Umberto Eco and Denise Levertov are juxtaposed within the images. Line etching, polymer, mokuhanga woodcut, letterpress, and mixed media on Japanese Nishinouchi paper, 2011. 6 x 5.75 inches closed, pages are accordion folded into covered boards Amercian artist Karen Kunc explores inventive colour abstractions of the natural and human-fashioned world, creating visual impact and ideas of strange beauty. Kunc is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has taught workshops around the world and served as a visiting artist to over 100 institutions. Recognitions include: the 2007 Southern Graphics International Printmaker Emeritus Award; Fulbright Scholar Award to Finland; prizes in the Triennale Majdanek, Poland; 5th Sapporo Biennale; 2nd Bangkok Triennale. Her solo exhibitions include: Piano Nobile Gallery, Krakow, Poland; Davidson Galleries, Seattle; Blackburn 20/20, New York. Group exhibitions, include: The Abstract Impulse, National Academy Museum, New York; Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts, Zimmerli Art Museum. Kunc's works are in collections of: the Museum of Modern Art; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Worcester Art Museum; Salo Art Museum, Finland; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan; Milwaukee Art Museum; Hyndai Art Center Gallery, Korea. She was recently an artist in residence at the Venice Printmaking Studio, 2011.  http://www.karen-kunc.com |
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