2022 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition

2022 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition

Highpoint Center for Printmaking presents an exhibition featuring the work from the 2022 McKnight Printmaking Fellows, Nicole Sara Simpkins and Amy Sands

Please join Highpoint in celebrating the 2022 McKnight Printmaking Fellows, Nicole Sara Simpkins and Amy Sands. This exhibition, opening January 20th, will feature prints, objects, and moving images created during their year-long fellowship experience. Come meet the artists, celebrate their work, and enjoy refreshments during the opening reception.

 DATES
Opening Reception and Meet the Artists:
   Friday, January 20th, 2023 6:30 – 9PM

Public Conversation:
   Friday, February 3, 6-7pm with the McKnight fellows featuring Amy E. Elkins, Associate Professor of English at Macalester College and author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present. Admission is free, but space is limited so please RSVP:
 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nicole Sara Simpkins uses printmaking, writing, and drawing to explore entanglements of culture, ecosystems, and personal healing. Her fascination with relationality has fueled her continued research into the culturally-determined category of invasive plants. Using linoleum prints, screenprints, cyanotypes and drawings, she constructs assemblages of cut and stitched layers that invoke complex entanglements of resurgent plants and tumultuous extraction. She presents cyanotypes layered with etchings and drawings as 2-dimensional works on paper, as well as an immersive installation of tapestry-forms suspended from above. 

Amy Sands offered this statement about the work she developed during the residency: “This new body of work embodies investigations into nature. Using light and shadow as a metaphor for our existence, I have been examining the precarious balance of an ecosystem. My current work uses photography, videography, printmaking and installation to explore shadows of natural forms diffused through fabric. Nature is reduced to simple shapes and colors revealing only the silhouette of the plant. Differences between species are camouflaged, leaving one to admire the beauty and simplicity of the shadows and finding commonalities between forms.”

About the McKnight Printmaking Fellowship
   The McKnight Printmaking Fellowship at Highpoint was established in 2019 with generous funding from the McKnight Foundation. The program is open to mid-career Minnesota artists who work in printmaking — defined here as artists who demonstrate a sustained level of accomplishment, commitment, and artistic excellence. The artists were selected based on the artistic merit of their work, and their dedication, interest, and continued growth in printmaking.
 

About Highpoint Center for Printmaking
   Established in 2001, Highpoint Center for Printmaking is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking. Its goals are to provide educational programs, community access, and collaborative publishing opportunities to engage the public and increase the appreciation and understanding of the printmaking arts.


Image: Ancestral Garden (detail), Amy Sands, Stencil monoprint on layered kozo


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