Jim McCormick, (1936 - 2017), artist and print-maker extraordinaire, taught in the University of Nevada Reno’s Art Department from 1960 – 1992. In addition, she creates artist books and makes hand-made paper. Japanese design, culture, and views of nature influence her images. Powell is an active member of the Lake Tahoe Art League and Open Studio Tours and a student of Phyllis Shafer’s at LTCC.Ĭarol Brown uses the ancient moku-hanga process to make original woodblock prints with Japanese tools and papers. Sheldon has retired as a faculty member from American River College, Sacramento, Calif.Ĭathryn Powell’s relief prints focus on her experiences as a plein air painter and emphasizes composition and color theory. Sheldon shared an unprinted linoleum block with the exhibition. His complex compositions and labor intensive processes span a wide range of topics including fast food, tools, and still lifes with discarded pots. Mick Sheldon issues limited editions of 12 for each of his large linoleum block prints. Shafer teaches painting and printmaking at Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA. Painter Phyllis Shafer makes portraits of the natural environment including in this relief print of Fallen Leaf Lake. She bases her work on “the diverse and abundant landscapes of the Reno-Tahoe area.” Koh is an Associate Professor and head of Printmaking at UNR’s Art Department.įrom her Meridian Press studio in Reno, Katherine Case creates images by hand-setting metal type and printing on an antique Vandercook proof press. Kenny is an Associate Professor of Art at Sierra Nevada University, Incline Village, NV.Įunkang Koh’s colorful and imaginary etchings present “the world as an illusion and believes that what we actually see is a perception that is programmed through mainstream cultures.” In her work, she depicts interactions between human/animal hybrid creatures to address this subject matter. Teal is a MFA graduate of UNR’s Art Department.īy combining collage, printmaking, drawing, and painting techniques, Mary Kenny builds images to explore narratives that challenge viewers’ expectations of how the world works. Through playful images, she questions viewers’ expectations and basic ways of operating in the world. Teal Francis’ artworks of animals and human-made objects come to life through her intaglio, linocuts, and screen printing processes. Bruggeman is Associate Professor and Area Head of the Book & Publication Arts program in UNR’s Art Department. She makes artist’s books, prints, and other text-based art that investigate our personal and collective relationship to the shifting role of the book and print media in our world today.
Inge Bruggeman’s work revolves around the idea of the book - the book as object, artifact, and cultural icon.
Monoprints allow her to combine structure with the intuitive painterly way she works. Her monoprint compositions evoke imagined and changing spaces within the construction and deconstruction of the Western landscape. Rachel Stiff teaches drawing, printmaking, and painting at Western Nevada College. The Nevada Museum of Art said about his work, “Brown’s painstaking and often obsessive practice results in works that demonstrate his commitment to erasing the boundaries between art and everyday life.” Making mezzotints requires long hours of painstaking and repetitive mark-making to create images of exquisite quality such as Galen Brown’s. The exhibition presents prints by Carol Brown, Galen Brown, Inge Bruggeman, Katherine Case, Teal Francis, Mary Kenny, Eunkang Koh, Jim McCormick, Cathryn Powell, Phyllis Shafer, Mick Sheldon, and Rachel Stiff.
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