The Strycker

First Year MFA Show

It's been a busy month! I spent most of it preparing for my first year MFA show. I shared the Temple Rome gallery space with one other first year grads, a painter, Marco Phillips. Here is a portion of my artist statement:

"Rome, a modern metropolis whose infrastructure has been built and rebuilt for over two millennia, serves not only as a home base for creation, but also an inspiration. As I build layers on the plate, and then place print upon print and collage drawings over the printed surface, iterations begin to connect on all sides. By printing a plate over and over on a large sheet of paper, the bottom of one image blends into the top of another, recalling the melodic repetition of prayers or chants in which the end of one mantra becomes the beginning of the next. The myriad elements fuse to form a greater, boundless image. As a mark runs off the page on the top, it reappears on the bottom, as it disappears on the left, it reemerges on the right in the same manner as the facades in ancient Rome."

Pictured is a series of unique prints (mixed media on Japanese paper), titled, "The Grace of the Descent."

posted by Jacquelyn @ 12:12 PM