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ARTIST STATEMENT 2019
MY WORK AND PROJECTS CONTINUES MY PRACTICE WHICH INCLUDES LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT WORKS PRODUCED UTILIZING A TECHNIQUE I DISCOVERED IN 2002 AND WAS FIRST DEMONSTRATED AT THE FRONTIERS IN PRINTMAKING CONFERENCE IN 2007 AT ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY AT NORMAL, ILLINOIS. THE EXHIBITION TITLED MOTIFS FROM THE GLOBAL BACKYARD IN 2014 AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ARCHITECTURE, ART AND PLANNING, BIBLIOWITZ FAMILY GALLERY FEATURED WORKS PRODUCED DURING MY SABBATICAL LEAVE IN THE SPRING SEMESTER 2013.THE WORKS WHERE OF PLANT IMAGES PRODUCED FROM SEVERAL GREEN HOUSES FROM THE HORTICULTURE DEPARTMENT AT ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY WHILE IN RESIDENCES THERE AT NORMAL EDITIONS WORK SHOP. THE EXHIBITION ALSO INCLUDED OTHER PRINTS PRODUCED WHILE AT THE EDINBURGH PRINTMAKERS AND PLANTS FROM THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS IN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND AND PLANT SPECIMENS FROM OUR OWN CORNELL BOTANIC GARDENS GREEN HOUSE COLLECTION HERE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, DURING THAT SAME SABBATICAL LEAVE. IN ALL CASES MY OBJECTIVE WAS TO PRODUCE PLANT IMAGES I HAD NOT ENCOUNTERED AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLANTS NATIVE TO THE AREA. DURING THE EXHIBITION, I ALSO SHOW THE DVD, TITLE: MOTIFS FROM MY BACK YARD (HORTICULTURAL LITHOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES) PRODUCED BETWEEN 2008 AND 2010, BY LINDSEY GLOVER, CORNELL, MFA, O8 AND MYSELF. THE DVD DEMONSTRATES THE PROCESS I USE TO PRODUCE THE PRINTS.
AS AN ACTIVE GARDENER, I HAVE SEVERAL PERENNIAL AND VEGETABLE GARDENS AT MY HOME IN ITHACA, NEW YORK. MY BACK-YARD SERVES AS A
PLACE OF RESEARCH WHERE I AM GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO COLLABORATE WITH THE PLANTS GROWING THERE IN AN ENDLESS CYCLE OF INVESTIGATION, DESIGN, REGENERATION AND SUSTAINABILITY. I AM INTERESTED IN PRODUCING PLANT IMPRESSIONS ALLOWING THE PLANTS TO RENDER AN ACCURATE PHYSICAL EXPRESSION. I FIND MY PRACTICE TO BE IN THE REALM OF TAXONOMY IN THIS IDENTIFICATION. USING LITHOGRAPHIC DRAWING MATERIALS AND PRINTING I AM ABLE TO ACQUIRE A SENSITIVE IMPRESSION OF THESE PLANTS THAT I FIND A TRUE COLLABORATION IN THIS ON-GOING PROJECT. THE GARDENS IN MY BACK YARD CONTAIN OVER 40 DIFFERENT PERENNIAL SPECIMENS, SEVEN DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF HOSTAS, FIVE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF TREES, ELEVEN DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF ORNAMENTAL GRASSES AND MORE.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, PRINTMAKING AND DRAWING, DEPARTMENT OF ART, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART, AND PLANNING
WATTS PRIZE TEACHING EXCELLENCE RECIPIENT 2012 AND 2017, CORNELL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ART, COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART AND PLANNING.
CO-FOUNDER INK SHOP PRINTMAKING CENTER, ITHACA, NEW YORK.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: POSITIVE/ NEGATIVE 34th NATIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION, THE 40th ANNUAL PAPER IN PARTICULAR EXHIBITION, COLUMBIA COLLEGE SINDNEY LARSON GALLERY, GALLERY AMI-KANOKO, OSAKA, JAPAN, HE XIANGNIAG ART MUSEUM, SHENZHEN, CHINA, KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY, KURUKSHETRA, HARYANA, INDIA AND AT THE HERITAGE HJEMKOMST INTERPRETIVE CENTER, MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, TEXAS, MASUR MUSEUM, MONROE, LOUISIANA, ULRICH MUSEUM OF ART, WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY, WICHITA, KANSAS.