WOMAN MADE GALLERY PRESENTS July 9 - August 26, 2010

Artwork by Kim Laurel

 

"Her Way With Print" is an investigation of printmaking and experimental print works by six Chicago artists, featuring art by Caroline Anderson, Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Sarah Nishiura, Mary K. O'Shaughnessy, and Megan Sterling. Each artist furthers her artistic investigations by combining traditional printmaking with other media.

Various combined and experimental media include roller and stencil printing with painting (Caroline Anderson), traditional etching with recycled material in sculptural assemblage (Deborah Maris Lader), multiple pass monoprinting on polyester film substrates and installation (Kim Laurel), woodcut reduction printing on paper and on fabric for quilting/fiber arts (Sarah Nishiura), photographic digital manipulation combined with letterpress print (Mary K. O'Shaughnessy) and screen print with monotype (Megan Sterling).

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Opening Reception: Friday, July 9, 6-9 p.m.  
"My piece 'In Flanders Fields,' an installation in nine parts, is my attempt to add my 'silent scream' to the chorus of those for whom war is anathema. It is a meditation on the fact that we-as whole countries, as societies, as small bands linked by shared hatreds and as human beings who, with our pitifully short lives, have been given the privilege of inhabiting a magnificent planet-continue to engage in warfare, mired in the delusion that we are thereby solving our human dilemmas.

 

"The famous poem from World War I 'In Flanders Fields,' written in the midst of 'seventeen days of Hades' by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, forms the central image from which I draw my inspiration. Dead soldiers lie buried in a field of poppies. Larks fly overhead, singing, oblivious of gunfire. Soon enough the fields will harbor just beneath the surface an array of human bones. McCrae imagines the dead speaking. They implore us to 'take up our quarrel with the foe' in order that they may sleep for all time. My piece takes issue with the poet and with his assumption of the rightness of retribution and the implied glory of 'winning.' May we come to understand that the unrestrained mortification of human flesh known as War is a shameful betrayal of who we are and all that we are."
-Fran Bull, Vermont 2010
 

POETRY READING: WOMEN IN PRINT

Woman Made Gallery is a tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization founded in 1992. Its goal is to support women in the arts by providing opportunities, awareness, and advocacy. It specifically accomplishes this through monthly thematic exhibitions that help raise public awareness and recognition of women's cultural contributions.

Woman Made Gallery is supported in part by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; a CityArts Program II grant from the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs; the Arts Work Fund for Organizational Development, a donor-advised fund of the Chicago Community Trust; the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; The Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund; 3Arts; a major anonymous donor; and the generosity of its members and contributors.
  

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