Opening at IMA this Weekend

At the Intersection of Art, Poetry, and Nature

The San Juan Islands Museum of Art (SJIMA) is proud to present Hydrographs and For All We Know, concurrently running exhibitions by two innovative artists and printmakers, Nicole Pietrantoni and Dianne Kornberg.

The exhibitions will open to the public on September 17, 2016 and will end on November 28, 2016.

Art as a Voice Events:

Nicole Pietrantoni – Contributed photo

Nicole Pietrantoni – Fractured Landscapes, Fraught Aesthetics
San Juan Island – SJIMA, September 17 at 10am.
Gallery Talk and book signing to follow.

Dianne Kornberg – Contributed photo

Dianne Kornberg – Crossing Borders
San Juan Island – SJIMA, October 13 at 7pm. Gallery Talk and book signing to follow.
Lopez – Lopez Library, October 7 at 7pm. Book signing to follow.
Orcas – Episcopal Parish Hall, 242 Main Street, East Sound, October 14 at 7pm. Book signing to follow.

Both women utilize printmaking to question what most take for granted, adding an artistic voice to forms otherwise expressed in purely scientific terms.

In the words of Nicole Pietrantoni: “I am interested in our active role in constructing and idealizing landscape, questioning both the historical and contemporary complexities of representation.” She passionately explores the complex relationship between humans and nature through the medium of printmaking, creating works that are both powerfully cerebral and stunningly aesthetic.

Diane Kornberg uses printmaking and other creative media to create photo-based, archival pigment prints that both honor and question limits to the creation of knowledge through the scientific methods. She juxtaposes poetry by her collaborator, Elizabeth Frost, alongside scientific language and conventions applied to specimen conservation and preservation. Their work serves to create alternate ways of understanding the “evidence” around us. The artist and the poet shift their focus in the “What is Left” series, as they explore the charged and disorienting experience of grief.

Nicole Pietrantoni is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she teaches printmaking and book arts. With degrees in Human and Organizational Development and Art History from Vanderbilt University, an MFA and MA in Printmaking from the University of Iowa, her accolades include: a Fulbright award for research in Iceland, an Artist Trust Fellowship, a Larry Sommers Printmaking Fellowship, the Manifest Prize, and a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Grant. She is President of SGC International, the largest professional organization dedicated to printmaking, book arts, and papermaking in North America. Her work has been featured in over 80 national and international exhibitions and collections around the world.

Dianne Kornberg has been exhibiting her artwork nationally and internationally for three decades. Museum collections include the Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and more. Her work is featured in multiple book publications including Contemporary Art in the Northwest, 100 Artists of the West Coast, and Selected Work of the Portland Art Museum. She is a professor emerita at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and resides on an island in the San Juans. Elisabeth Frost is the author of All of Us: Poems (White Pine Press), amongst others. Frost is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Fordham University, and has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, The Rockefeller-Bellagio Foundation, and more.

The exhibitions will open on September 17, 2016, concurrent with the ongoing installation in the Atrium Gallery, A River of Migration by Gu Xiong.

For more information go to http://www.sjima.org

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Friday – Monday 11 am to 5 pm, September 6 to November 28, 2016

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San Juan Islands Museum of Art

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