Beyond the Norm

               

Beyond the Norm

Celebrating Normal Editions Workshop's 40th anniversary, University Galleries presents Beyond the Norm: An International Juried Print Exhibition on September 20th through October 16th.

54 artists from across the United States and Canada are featured in the exhibition. Susan Tallman is the juror as well as a critic, author, art historian, and teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The show is highlighting majorly women featuring BFA Alum Megan Hinds, Amy Cousins, Erika Adams, Mary Hood, Kim Morski, Karen Kunc, Julia DePinto, and others. Including printmaking processes  such as woodcut, serigraph, lithograph, monotype, intaglio, video and site specific installation.

Left: Sarah Hulsey, In the Woods of Mendeleev, Woodcut and letterpress, 2014. University Galleries.
Right: Karen Kunc Kunc, Biocosmic Wave, 2013. University Ga

Invitation. Meet and Greet Biocosmic Wave and   . 

Black Monotype. Scientic table with new elements. 

Aside Lithograph. Seeking Beneath a Microscope. 

New Discoveries.

Setting the Tone Past the First Wall.

Upper: Kim Morski, I Forgot, Reduction Woodcut, 2016.
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Lower: Kirsten Bartel, American Dream: Lightning Storm with Grass,
Lithograph and inkjet, 2015. University Galleries.

Relationships Between. Coupled Works Fitting. Sharing Color, Line, and Shape. Beyond the Norm.

Captivating Dialogue. 

From the Work. To the Viewer.

The installation invites and actively engages the viewer to keep swiveled head. The lighting gives each piece it's own spotlight to stand out to the viewer. Curation of the show is chosen specifically for the works to relate to one another. It is beyond the norm for the work to behave so well together.

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Right: Marilee Salvator, Form #4, Etching and wood, 2016. University Galleries.

 

Erika Adams, I see you, I see you too, Collaborative artist's book: letterpress and ink, 2015. University Galleries.

Seeing. I see you. Blue rectangle. I see you too. 

White gloves make the pages delicate to turn. A series of blindly contoured portraits.

Intimacy bounded on white sheets. Cool neutral print.

The view between two people. Human interaction.

Left: Emily Arthur, Gnatcatchers (with Ledger Paper), Monoprint and screenprint, 2016. University
Right: Amy Cousins, All The Queerness That's Fit To Print: The Abiline Reporter News 1967-75, Serigraph, paper, buttons, wood and foam, 2015. University Galleries.

Type. Type. Type. Writer Font. 

Words to be read. Illustrations to speak. 

Depth of layers and bulging. 

Beyond the Norm: International Juried Exhibition is captivating and leaves the viewer wanting more. It is an exhibition that can be seen more than once continuing to discover new relationships between the works.