SUSTAINED INGRAIN FROM
EAST TO WEST: CONTEMPORARY WOODCUTS
Organizer: Scott Ludwig
Participants:
N. America
Sean Caulfield, Katy Collier, Scott Ludwig, Endi Poskovic, Kasey Ramirez, Freda Sue, Humberto Saenz, Justin Sanz, Taro Takizawa, April Vollmer, Alice Leora Briggs, Morgan Anderson
China
Xiao Fuping, Chen Jiadi, Xiao Jieran, Liu Jing, Pei Jingwang, Sun Jinyi, Li Jun, Lin Jun, Wen Mujiang, Zhang Tongshuai, Luo Xiangke, Lu Yu
Abstract
Shina, cherry, pine, birch, basswood; all familiar species for
printmakers engaged with the woodcut process. This project, entitled,
'Sustained Ingrain', is an international, cultural exchange folio of woodcut
prints. Co-curated by Scott Ludwig, Professor of Printmaking at Appalachian
State University (USA) and Liu Jing, Professor of Printmaking at Changsha
Normal University (China), 12 artists from China and 12 artists from N. America
will participate. The work of these artists represents a diversity of creative
vision, innovative process and aesthetic appeal, with each working extensively
in the ageless, wild and wonderful medium of woodcut.
Conceived to parallel the theme of the 2018 SGCI conference,
artists will freely interpret the concept of “altered landscape” based on their
personal and/or own cultural context. Taken literally and/or interpreting this
idea in the broadest sense, issues of sustainability, climate change,
environmental/cultural degradation, social justice and globalization are all
inclusive issues that may be potentially examined.
