Winter Sleep

Winter Sleep. 
Triple-Plate Colour Etching. 
45.5cm x 45.5cm. 2014.

I finished a new print. I was on a tight deadline for this piece, which I still want to include in my upcoming exhibition "Small Pleasures" (see poster in previous post for details), while also starting to play with new ideas and new techniques for school. As you may have noticed, I have partly recycled an earlier image of hibernation which I've always enjoyed, but I was also inspired to make this piece after a winter getaway last January to the Apostle Island Ice Caves in Wisconsin. I tried to work with space a bit differently this time, and while the piece is still quite flat, the shadows on the snwo and the overlay of the icicles give the piece a certain depth.
Once again, I played with soap ground in the middle-ground of the piece and in the icicles, where it is particularly successful, I think. I used this piece to get acquainted with the new studio surroundings, and after moaning inwardly how much I miss the rosin box at Highpoint, I was pleasantly surprised by the smoothness of the airbrush aquatints I got, although it is much more work intensive to spray the aquatint multiple times in between etches. Well, that's it for today. Keep warm!

Small Pleasures

My husband Terry and I have an exhibition coming up in Winnipeg at the WAG Gallery Shop. Terry will be showing a selection of his master's thesis work. This is the first time he'll be showing his thesis work in Canada. To see more of Terry's work, please visit his website at: www.terryhildebrand.ca.  I will be showing a few pieces of my more recent works. I'm hoping to get one more print finished for the show, which I will post soon. 

Graduate School - University of Alberta

I'm starting a new chapter in my life. I have been accepted to graduate school at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. It was a tough decision for me to go back to school again, but I think it'll do me and my artwork good to rethink things and to refocus.
For the past week I've been moving into my new studio. As a grad student, I get my own little space with a desk, several flat files, and a shelf. I get great light in here through a window the width of the room (see images below). There is a shared grad studio here with two printing presses. Plate processing will happen in the upstairs undergrad studios, so I have the feeling I'll get my workout climbing stairs. I hope to get into the new studio routines and processes soon. I'll have to get used to airbrush aquatints again instead of using the wonderful rosin box at Highpoint in Minneapolis, but every studio has their own equipment and procedures and I'll have to learn new ways of doing things. Once I'm all settled in and I have some new work to show, you'll hear from me again.

In Memoriam

My Dad, Michael Rudolph, passed away in a tragic accident involving a drunk driver on July 27th, 2014. With him I lost my biggest critic, fan, and mentor. He gave me the love of art, music, and literature, the desire to know and learn, the interest in languages and travel, the love for beauty, and the love for life. He will be greatly missed.

7th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2014

I am pleased to share with you that two of my prints (Mercado Cuatro and Entre Itacurubí y San José) are part of the 7th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2014 in Portugal, which runs from August 10th - October 31st. I was invited by curator Nuno Canelas to participate in this exhibition and it is an honour for me to have been asked to display my work in such a prestigious exhibition. Thank you for giving me this opportunity. 

Exhibition at Groveland Gallery - Minneapolis

My Minneapolis in the Star Tribune

Visual art: Prints at Highpoint showcases Minnesota talent

Article by: MARY ABBE , Star Tribune

 

Updated: July 18, 2014 

SILVER: the 25th Cooperative Exhibition

Opening Friday: Under the skylights in Highpoint’s spacious workroom, dozens of Minnesota artists sketch, ink and run their plates through the center’s etching presses. Then they check their proofs and start all over, refining their designs until they’re satisfied with the concepts. For the “Silver” show, 37 members of the Highpoint cooperative have turned out a sparkling variety of images, ranging from North Woods landscapes to abstractions and whimsical interpretations of summer, as seen here in “My Minneapolis” by Miriam Rudolph, who is obviously a bicycle enthusiast and culture consumer. Note bikers rolling along a Midtown Greenway lined with farmers-market vendors, rowers on the Mississippi near the Weisman Art Museum, the Minneapolis Sculpture garden and Walker Art Center, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ Dale Chihuly chandelier illuminating the whole scene. (Opening, 6:30-9 p.m. Fri., free. Highpoint Center for Printmaking, 912 W. Lake St., Mpls., ends Aug. 23, free, 612-871-1326 or highpointprintmaking.org.)

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