Print as Object 2020
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October 21-December 3
Now on view at the Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery at Oklahoma City University
Print as Object is a group exhibition of artwork that stretches the boundaries of traditional printmaking mediums. The exhibition aims to highlight artists using printmaking as a starting point and pushing beyond the standard editioned print on paper to create sculptures, books, and installations. Below is a statement from the Print as Object guest juror, Shelley Thorstensen, artist, curator, and founder of Printmakers Open Forum:
Congratulations to the organizers of Print as Object. The amount of hard work, persistence and resilience to pull off an exhibit like this now cannot go without recognition. It’s a feat and a triumph. As the juror for this show, I waited with much anticipation. The new and novel Covid-19 swirled around us all and even still, they found a way. It is not surprising – artists are like that; printmakers are especially like that. We are imbued with two loves among many: Persistence and Community. Simply put, printmakers do not give up easily and they stick together.
Print as Object is a show filled with the incongruence of our current lives. It causes a double take – Print. As Object – not installation, but object. Not a window to a world on the wall, but object. It is not lost on one of us that these objects will not, for the most part function in our once normal three-dimensional world. Instead, most of us will experience this show in a venue far from it - on a screen. But within those confines shines a beautiful exhibition, pushing the boundaries of print, working the edges of sustainable practice. It is a proud and humbling moment.
