Renowned printmaker Karen Kunc visits Oregon State University.

Karen Kunc visits Oregon State University as part of the Visiting Artist & Scholars Program sponsored by the OSU Department of Art. This documentary features her woodcut print show titled "Printedness".

In her prints and artist books, Karen Kunc explores inventive color abstractions of the natural and human-fashioned world, creating visual impact, tensions, and ideas of strange beauty. Kunc is a Nebraska based artist who also works in New York, Italy, Colorado, and Helsinki. Her prints and artist books have been shown recently in solo exhibitions at: The Huntington Museum of Art; The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; The Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City; Piano Nobile Gallery, Krakow, Poland. Her work has been included in numerous important group exhibitions, including: The Abstract Impulse, National Academy Museum, New York; 5th International Triennial of Graphic Art 2007, Prague, Czech Republic; Book as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Sublime Present, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan. Kunc's works are represented in many public and private collections, including: the Museum of Modern Art (NY); the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; Honolulu Academy of Art.



BIOGRAPHY


Karen Kunc was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1952. She received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1975, and her MFA from Ohio State University in 1977. She is a Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has taught since 1983. Her recognitions include: the 2007 Printmaker Emeritus Award from the Southern Graphics Council; a Fulbright Scholar Award, 1996; Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, 1996 & 1984; Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Master Award, 1992; Individual Artist Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, 1982. She has taught numerous workshops around the world and served as a visiting artist to over 100 institutions. She has curated exhibitions of American art for Finland, France, Egypt, and frequently serves as a juror for national competitions.

More information on visiting artists can be found at: http://oregonstate.edu/fairbanksgallery

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[happinesson]

artistically inclined people! What a lovely work of art!

[superart7777]

great

[derkleinerfips]

Absolutely love this...

[pietrocelli123]

excellent Maestro printmaker artist !