#Karen Kunc

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Decorative Sunday

Nebraska printmaker and book artist Karen Kunc (b. 1952) is a favorite here at UWM Special Collections. Here is a new acquisition of color, reduction woodcuts and letterpress printing, On this Land, with a text by Latina Nebraskan poet Lenora Castillo (b. 1950), printed in Lincoln, Nebraska, at Kunc's Blue Heron Press for the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 1996 in an edition of 126 copies signed by the poet and artist.

The images were printed in five runs from Kunc's two basswood blocks on mouldmade Nideggen paper by artist Nancy Palmeri. On This Land reflects the austere beauty of the artist's environment - its farmland and open sky - and describes the gradual process of acceptance and attachment to a new place. Kunc's nature-inspired woodcuts echo the colors of rural harvesting, festivals and folk arts. The size of the book is intimate in scale, yet unfolds to a dramatic horizontal spread that evokes the land itself. Our copy is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.

View other posts with works by Karen Kunc.

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Karen Kunc, Edge Series Woodcut on shaped paper

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Karen Kunc - Wind Rush

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'offering time' by karen kunc, 2001 in the book as art: artists' books from the national museum of women in the arts - krystyna wasserman (2011)

[mybeingthere]

Betsy Best tells about learning printmaking.

"Before my printmaking studies at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, I earned a degree in Graphic Arts from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. In subsequent years I attended a printmaking residency in Japan, studying woodblock printmaking with master craftsmen, with further printmaking studies in Florence, Italy. These opportunities are significant to my art practice. While in Italy I studied under the American printmaker, Karen Kunc, learning an innovative reduction method using two woodblocks."

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Check out Karen Kunc, After Place (2022), From Atrium Gallery

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Third Thursday events and exhibitions for December 21

The next Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia — is scheduled for Thursday, December 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. This schedule and each venue’s location and hours of operation are available at 3thurs.org.  

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

Yoga in the Galleries, 6 p.m. — This free yoga class surrounded by works of art in the galleries is led by instructors from Five Points Yoga and open to both beginner and experienced yogis. Sanitized mats are provided. Space is limited and spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis; tickets are available at the front desk starting at 5:15 p.m.

On view:

“Nancy Baker Cahill: Through Lines” — Baker Cahill’s first solo museum show expands upon her background in traditional media and redefines the possibilities of drawing in contemporary art through augmented reality.

“In Dialogue: Power Couple: Pierre and Louise Daura in Paris” — Portraits of Joaquín Torres-García’s daughters by Pierre Daura and Louise Heron Blair.

“Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection” — Selections from Larry and Brenda Thompson’s gift of works by African American artists.

“Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art” — Works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others, on loan from Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.

Permanent collection: A wide range of the museum’s permanent collection is always on view, featuring painting, sculpture, works on paper and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the present.

The museum’s days of operation are Tuesday – Sunday. Reserve a free ticket and see our policies at https://georgiamuseum.org/visit/.

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art

ATHICA@675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200:

Closed this Third Thursday.

ATHICA@CINÉ Gallery:

“Six from the Elephant 6 Circle” — Featuring work by artists who helped make the scene.

Lyndon House Arts Center

“Memory Worker: Kelly Taylor Mitchell” — Mitchell’s multidisciplinary practice centers oral history and ancestral memory, real and imagined, woven into the fabric of the African Diaspora. Her work is deeply invested in labor-intensive making, slowness and homespun passed-down processes resulting in works of printmaking, papermaking, performance, book arts and textiles.

“Tell Me A Story: Works by Jasmine Best” — Best, a current master of fine arts candidate at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, uses her memories and manipulations of them to create dialogues about the Black female identity. She explores the folk story traditions of the Black South through tangible and traditional mediums such as fabric and yarn combined with digital sewing.

“Maquettes by Abraham Tesser” — Abraham Tesser is an Athens-based artist and furniture maker who creates magic with wood. He has exhibited large-scale pieces at the Lyndon House Arts Center over the years; however, this exhibition looks at his maquettes, or scale models in wood used as drafts or “drawings” for bigger pieces.

“The Image Moves: New Film and Video Work by Athens Artists” — Guest curated by Keith Wilson, this show features a non-narrative, experimental and personal approach to the time-based mediums of film and video. Artists include Drew Gebhardt, Katz Tepper, Jaime Bull, Selia Hooten, Vivian Liddell, CC Calloway, Shawn Campbell and AJ Aremu.

“The 8th Collegiate Paper Art Triennial” — This exhibition celebrates the pinnacle of student creativity in paper art. Jurors Mina Takahashi, Karen Kunc and Erin Zona meticulously selected 40 outstanding pieces crafted by 36 students hailing from 11 distinguished institutions.

“Growing Together” — A solo exhibition by artist Ato Ribeiro. Born in Philadelphia, he spent his childhood and adolescence in Accra, Ghana. The articulation of his West African heritage and his African American identity is evident in his wooden assemblages that reference both Ghanian strip-woven kente cloth and Black quilting traditions of the American South. 

The Athenaeum

Closed this Third Thursday.

The Classic Center

Galleries are closed due to events in the building.

tiny ATH gallery

“Elizabeth Collins Hanes: Freaks of Nature” — Hanes is a recent winner of a coveted Kentucky Festival of the Arts Merit Award. She says, “I have always been a collector of interesting things. I decided to focus on incorporating my collected treasures into a cohesive body of sculptures called ‘Freaks of Nature.’

Some items I use have been given to me, but mostly I use things I find when exploring.”

ACE/FRANCISCO Gallery

“J. Grant Brittain: 80’s Skate Photography” — San Diego-based Brittain, known for his 60+ covers of Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, countless iconic images of the skate greats, and his recently published 1980s skateboarding photography book, “PUSH,” inspired generations of young people to pick up a camera or a skateboard. Over 35 images from Brittain’s iconic work in the 1980s, which captured the evolution of skateboarding from its origins in southern California into a national cultural phenomenon, are on view.

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Third Thursday was established in 2012 to encourage attendance at Athens’ established art venues through coordination and co-promotion by the organizing entities. 

Contact: Michael Lachowski, Georgia Museum of Art, mlachow@uga.edu.

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Books On Books Collection - Aaron Cohick

Books On Books Collection – Aaron Cohick

The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press (third iteration) (2017) The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press (third iteration) (2017) Aaron CohickBooklet, saddle-stapled, risograph, letterpress/collagraph, and hand painting. H165.1 x W139.7 mm (closed), 20 pages. #000611, unlimited, iterative edition. Acquired from New Lights Press, 11 December 2020.Photos: Books On Books Collection. Displayed…

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Karen Kunc 

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Karen Kunc’s Dream World Symbolism

Karen Kunc’s Dream World Symbolism

Karen Kunc, In Transience (detail), woodcut, 2017

I don’t know how I didn’t come across Karen Kunc’s work before, because it often exhibits a fusion I’m awed by, of at least three spheres of art: symbolic, abstract, and printmaking. There’s so much at her web site to study.

For me, there’s a strong Paul Klee influence, but that would resonate for any artist using bright color and line…

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!

This week, we present another book from the estate of our late friend, Dennis Bayuzick entitled On This Land. The book consists of a poem by Lenora Castillo with woodcuts created and printed in 1996 by Karen Kunc in an edition of 125 copies at the printer’s own Blue Heron Press with support from the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.

Both author and artist are from Nebraska, which is fitting because the poem is about becoming used to the landscape and nature of the state. Castillo begins her poem by discussing what Nebraska lacks: rivers, ravines, high mountains, and hills before continuing to describe what the state does have to offer: tornadoes, snowdrifts, and cottonwood trees. This progression represents the gradual acceptance of the “austere beauty” of the plains state, while the prints provide abstracted versions of the elements being described by the poet to enrich the viewer’s reading of the poem.

The prints are reduction woodcuts printed in five runs from two basswood blocks. The typeface is 14 point Baskerville printed on mould-made Nideggen paper along with a red flax cover pigmented with walnut.

View other posts with works by Karen Kunc.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

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– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Woodcut & intaglio works by Karen Kunc Synthesis, Airborne, Waterlife & Element

[damonkowarsky]

33RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SMALL PRINT SHOW & HOLIDAY SALE December 3-4, 2022 through January 31, 2023 Special Preview Showing:  Friday, December 2nd, 12 - 5pm  Grand Opening Party: Saturday & Sunday, December 3rd & 4th, 11am - 7pm Extended Gallery Hours: Tuesdays - Sundays, December 6 - 21, 12 - 5pm SHOP LATE LINCOLN SQUARE event - Thursday, December 8 & 15, 5-8pm Regular Gallery Hours: Friday & Saturday, 12-5 or by appointment Artists include Grazvyda Andrijauskaite (Lithuania), Joanna Anos, Atlan Arcea-Witzl, Hiroshi Ariyama, Colleen Aufderheide, Coco Berkman, Matt Bodett, George Bodmer, Liz Born, Eric Bremer, Bright (Thailand), Margaret Buchen, Karen Butler, Corinna Button (UK), Sanchai Chaiyanan (Thailand), Jill Chittenden, Temjai Cholsiri (Thailand), Elke Claus, Jeanine Coupe-Ryding, Cathie Crawford, Alberto Cruz (Mexico), L J Douglas, Tony Fitzpatrick, Dianne Fogwell (Australia), Christine Gendre-Bergere (France), Bryn Gleason, Susan Hall, Anna Hasseltine, Eric Hoffman, Mirka Hokkanen, Carrie Iverson, Teresa James, Eric Johnson, Srijai Kantawang (Thailand), Melissa Keller, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Jon Keown, Scott Kiefer, Mel Kolstad, Damon Kowarsky (Australia), Shin Koyama (Japan), Jill Kramer, Tyler Krasowski, Karen Kunc, Ammarin Kuntawong (Thailand), Deborah Maris Lader, Kim Laurel, Carrie Lingscheit, Amornthep Mahamaet (Thailand), Dave Martin, Maddie May, Michelle McCoy, Hannah McMaster, Bert Menco, Andrew Mullally, Maria Mungai, Ali Norman, Kumi Obata (Japan), Duffy O’Connor, Dennis O’Malley, Mary O'Shaughnessy, Painted Tongue Press, Sage Perrott, Nick Phan, Puridon Pimsan (Thailand), Steve Prince, Nicole Purdie (UK), Jaco Putker (Netherlands), Artemio Rodriguez (Mexico), Ishbel Rodriguez, Jay Ryan, Genevieve Sachs, Justin Santora, Jeff Sippel, Yuttana Sittikan (Thailand), CHema Skandal!, Jack Spector-Bishop, Sarah Smelser, Starshaped Press, Raychel Steinbach, Megan Sterling, Jerawit Surtsit (Thailand), Narit Tananon (Thailand), Sanon Tempiem (Thailand), Octavia Thorns, Kitikong Tilokwattanotai (Thailand), Stephanie Toral, Thuong Tran, Kouki Tsuritani (Japan), Nicola Villa (Italy), Suttipong Vongson (Thailand), Carl Voss, and others. (at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClpvjMEhR00/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Gate Cairn, Karen Kunc, 1995, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Karen Kunc Size: 11 1/8 x 11 1/8 in. (28.3 x 28.3 cm) Medium: Glass intaglio with wood relief

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/154697

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Verse From Macrocosmica by Karen Kunc

[mybeingthere]

Betsy Best tells about learning printmaking.

"Before my printmaking studies at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, I earned a degree in Graphic Arts from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. In subsequent years I attended a printmaking residency in Japan, studying woodblock printmaking with master craftsmen, with further printmaking studies in Florence, Italy. These opportunities are significant to my art practice. While in Italy I studied under the American printmaker, Karen Kunc, learning an innovative reduction method using two woodblocks."