Alumni Aunna Escobedo (UNT Printmaking MFA 2019) and Kay Seedig (UNT Printmaking MFA 2017) were selected for the Print as Object 2020 Exhibition at Oklahoma City University.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.
Listed below are the selected artists in Print as Object 2020:
Elizabeth Castaldo, New York
Aunna Escobedo, Iowa
Louise Fisher, Iowa
Tory Franklin, Washington
Claire Gunville, Oregon
Chelsea Herman, Nebraska
Mark Kobasz, Pennsylvania
Sarah McDermott, West Virginia
Nick Satinover, Tennessee
Kay Seedig, Texas
Emily Skehan, New York
Ryan Stander, North Dakota
Judy Stone-Nunneley, Texas
Taro Takizawa, New York
Patrick Vincent, Minnesota
Dominique Vitali, New York
Ani Volkan, North Carolina
Sukha Worob, Montana
Autumn C. Wright, Pennsylvania
Jo Yarrington, New York
