Matrix Revealed
Bluegrass Printmakers
Printmaking is an often overlooked and misunderstood medium. It is not as straightforward as painting or as accessible as photography. Printmaking is a process of transferring an image from a matrix onto another surface. Printmaking is not a singular method as there are many techniques for creating images and many types of plates and substrates.
In this exhibit, members of Bluegrass Printmakers are displaying original prints with their corresponding matrices. Our varied media and styles of printmaking give viewers the opportunity to compare plate to print and a glimpse into the artistic process of printmaking and the variety of the art within printmaking. In many printmaking techniques the image on the matrix is the reverse of the printed image.
About Bluegrass Printmakers: Bluegrass Printmakers was formed in 2005 as Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative and is a non-profit organization in Lexington, Kentucky, offering a community for people of varying skills and experience to learn and practice the art of printmaking. Our members range from professional artists to students to people who simply enjoy printmaking as a hobby. The BGP print studio, based in The Bread Box Studios at West Sixth Street, provides members with use of presses and space to create and build community. Bluegrass Printmakers promotes printmaking through community outreach and exhibitions including classes, workshops, and demonstrations.
In this exhibit, members of Bluegrass Printmakers are displaying original prints with their corresponding matrices. Our varied media and styles of printmaking give viewers the opportunity to compare plate to print and a glimpse into the artistic process of printmaking and the variety of the art within printmaking. In many printmaking techniques the image on the matrix is the reverse of the printed image.
About Bluegrass Printmakers: Bluegrass Printmakers was formed in 2005 as Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative and is a non-profit organization in Lexington, Kentucky, offering a community for people of varying skills and experience to learn and practice the art of printmaking. Our members range from professional artists to students to people who simply enjoy printmaking as a hobby. The BGP print studio, based in The Bread Box Studios at West Sixth Street, provides members with use of presses and space to create and build community. Bluegrass Printmakers promotes printmaking through community outreach and exhibitions including classes, workshops, and demonstrations.
Participating Artists
Kirsti Anderssen
These works explore the symbiotic relationship between rhythm, movement, music and dance. I have been studying and practicing printmaking in all it's forms for more than 20 years. My favorites are copperplate etchings and waterless lithography, a method taught by the late professor Ross Zirkle
Marta Dorton
Through the Bluegrass Printmakers I have taken classes and experienced community. I learned several printmaking processes, but it is monotype and collagraph that draws me in. Monotype can be a painterly method and collagraph is a building method. I combine both of these aspects into my current printmaking and mixed media art. I adhere an array of repurposed elements onto collagraph prints. Elements may be printmaking scraps, paper to be recycled, tickets, fabric, receipts, anything glue-able. Each mixed media piece describes a handful of the vast connections that tie us to our world, universe and each other. The use of repurposed items serves as a reminder to reuse, donate, recycle - be kind to the earth. Each small act of kindness helps pave a path toward a healthy earth for all.
Marta Dorton is a Lexington visual artist, author and creator of acrylic paintings, printmaking, mixed media and poetry. She enjoys various creative pursuits in her EncaustiCastle studio.
Jenn Hunt
I am a lifelong record devotee. Few things make me as happy as putting one of my favorite records on the stereo. In my mind, vinyl and printmaking are conceptually similar. They both involve art that is enacted through grooves on a plate. Both make the people who love them work for their art, by carefully cleaning records and getting up to flip the side or by thoughtfully inking and burnishing linocuts to capture the beauty of the carving. In this print, I try to capture the meditative joy of interacting with vinyl records, which of course includes being able to study the artwork on the record sleeves. The two records in the print are personal favorites (Songs in the Key of Life and Dusty in Memphis), and the background evokes other ways in which our lives are filled with beautiful grooves.
As a college student, I was torn between pursuing Psychology and pursuing Art and Art History. My desire to use social science to document and reduce race and gender inequalities, particularly in the legal system, ultimately prevailed, although I did finish a co-major in Art. Throughout graduate school and my early years as a college professor, I nurtured my creative side through knitting, jewelry making, and other activities. When I moved to Lexington in 2018 to become a faculty member in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Kentucky, I was determined to return to studio art. I started painting and drawing again in the studio of Lexington artist, Christine Kuhn. Tying together my artistic, academic, and social justice passions, my first exhibited work was a painting titled, A Change is the Air, which was part of a series of paintings of Black Lives Matter activists. I began exploring printmaking in late 2021, and I enjoy how the medium forces me to think and create in ways that are different from painting.
Cristina Igelmo
These images were completed during the pandemic 2022 depicting people I met and places I visited during this time. I have been working with various printmaking techniques, such as; intaglio, relief, and screen printing over the last 12-15 years.
Natalia Ilieva
I create most of my art works using traditional etching, an intaglio printmaking process. I enjoy each step of the process. While working on my plate it is important for me to feel the materials - the metal plate, the ink, the paper. When I get to know their character better, they reveal to me many different ways of achieving the results I am looking for. A sense for the character of the materials used is present in the printed image. This process as well as the feelings I have from observing nature’s beauty around me is the inspiration for creating my art. Through typical for the etching technique lines and textures I express most accurately these feelings.
I have been a member of Bluegrass Printmakers since 2006. During this time I have participated in many Bluegrass Printmakers group exhibitions. In 2000 I received Masters degree in printmaking from National Academy of Arts Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1989-1994 I studied drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture at National School of Fine Arts “Iliya Petrov” Sofia, Bulgaria.
Stephanie Parker
My art tends to include images of nature, death, and the supernatural. I am interested in exploring how these themes are interconnected. Her Chair is an image based on my grandmother's armchair, where she sat to draw and crochet. While it was a simple piece of furniture, it remains a centerpiece of my memories of her. Even after she was gone, the chair never felt empty.
I grew up in a very rural area of Eastern Kentucky, later moved to Central Kentucky for college, and have been here ever since. I received my BS in Education and my MAed in Library Science. I have been teaching for 14 years, the last nine as a school librarian. I began printmaking five years ago, with linocut. Since then, I’ve learned and experimented with several forms of printmaking and mixed media art. I’ve served as Bluegrass Printmakers’ secretary and am currently serving as the organization’s president. I have continued to learn about printmaking art and to build relationships with other artists within these roles.
Matt Reno
I love traveling to new places and capturing those memories through art. Carving and printing a scenic landscape allows me to spend more time with the image, thus giving me more space to reflect on the location and my associations with it. In 2017 I took a Bluegrass Printmakers introduction to printmaking workshop and immediately gravitated toward linocut. I am also a graphic designer, so printmaking provides artistic balance, allowing me to get my hands dirty and not worry about perfection. In addition to making my own prints, I enjoy teaching the craft to others through in-person workshops and online Skillshare classes.
Tonya Vance
To me, art has always been very personal, a way to communicate an impression or a feeling with others. I am inspired by relationships between people and things, like family, nature, and biology. The prints in this exhibit range from purely abstract, geometric design to landscape. I hope that people will find something to connect with in each piece.
Tonya Vance is a multi-media artist living in Lexington, KY. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Murray State University in Murray, KY with an emphasis in printmaking. Tonya creates abstract paintings, prints, and fiber art inspired by nature, biology, geometry, and family. She is a member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, the Fiber Guild of Lexington, and Bluegrass Printmakers.
Cathy Vigor
Matrix Revealed, the title of this exhibit, includes both print images and the matrix used to create them. I have been working with multiple printmaking methods to create images that combine multiple matrices using different printmaking techniques. Each image is one of a kind rather than a print edition. These techniques include collagraphs, monotypes, monoprinting, stenciling, silk-screening, and Lino cuts. The thermofax screens and many Lino cuts used in my work have been created over 3 decades and were originally used to create large fiber wall hangings. I have added new silk screens, Lino Cuts, and collagraphs to this collection. I am drawn to color and pattern inspired by the natural world. I enjoy mixing colors and using multiple colors. The tree images in this exhibit were the result of an after Thanksgiving dinner hike at McConnell Springs where I photographed many groups of the trees.
Cathy Vigor is a fiber artist who specializes in printmaking and surface design on fiber and paper. She hand dyes silk and paper which she utilizes in feltmaking, printmaking, and encaustic painting. Her work has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibits regionally, nationally, and internationally. Most recently her work was included in Fiber Focus 2019 in St. Louis, Explorations in Felt 2020 at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clifton, NJ, Separate Yet Connect International FeltMakers Virtual Exhibit 2020, Archetypes Virtual Fiber Exhibit 2020, The Nude Biennial at the Lexington Art League, Lexington Art Leagues Member Exhibit 2020 and 2022. Vigor is a juried member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen in both fiber and printmaking, Kentucky Crafted, Surface Design Association, International Feltmakers Association, Fiber Guild of Lexington, and Bluegrass Printmakers Cooperative. She maintains a studio at Main and Walton Artist Studios in Lexington, KY.
Dana Wangsgard
Hanging Oak: This print is a representation of an old oak which hangs over the bluff just west of the old Fair Oaks pedestrian bridge. This bluff offers terrific views of the Sacramento valley and the north side of the American River. The oak tree has half of its root system exposed in the air as the bluff edge has slowly eroded underneath. It is only a matter time before some significant enough storms undermines the ground that this oak stands on. I used a kento for block registration and a baren to make the impressions following traditional Japanese moku-hanga techniques. I hope you enjoy my offering.
Union Church, Berea Kentucky: The Berea Union Church (as well as the Berea College) was founded by John Gregg Fee in 1853. Both the college and the church are non-denominational, and racially integrated since their founding. Fee founded the church on the principles of social and racial equality and believed slavery to be a sin. Equality and acceptance are pillars of the organization to this day. The building architecture is Greek Revival Style brick designed by W. H. Nicklas of Cleveland, Ohio.
I spent my early years in a suburb of Sacramento called Fair Oaks. Fair Oaks was a real Mayberry kind of town. I now live in Berea, which reminds me of what Fair Oaks was a half a century ago. My day job is working as a system’s engineer, my credentials are in mechanical engineering. During my college days I made it a practice to take a watercolor course each semester to balance all the science classes and help me stay sane. I truly believe that facilitated getting through the rigor of the engineering program. Since moving to Berea and while working at the Blue Grass Army Depot, I have served as the primary caregiver for my husband during his fight against esophageal cancer – he lost his battle in December 2016 and primary caregiver for my mother who was fighting dementia – she lost her battle with dementia in September 2021. I cared for both at home, with help from a paid local nursing aid until their final hours. I have since remarried to the love of my life. However, during my mother’s decline my sister who has a BA at Colorado state Boulder, encouraged me to take some printmaking courses with her at the New York Academy of Arts to help with distraction. I fell in love with printmaking and continue courses with the NYAA expanding the knowledge base beyond relief printing to now include sketching, mixed media, encaustics, and moku-hanga techniques.
R Vincent Whelan
Inspired by the Rorschach test, I use paper as both the matrix and substrate - the print is made by applying ink to a blank playing card (the matrix, holding the ink within the small grooves) - pressure is applied with another blank card on top (the substrate); however, I go beyond the Rorschach one-fold processes and add multiple layers of India ink, pulling the same substrate multiple times from the same matrix in what I have termed Multiple Impression Monotypes. You end with the plate being the mirror of the print, which can then be placed together as a diptych to create a larger, more cohesive image - the print and the plate both become integral parts of the dialogue within the work and exist in a codependent relationship with one another.
I was born and raised in Elizabethtown, Ky, but now reside in Shepherdsville, Ky with my wife, Kaylie, and our two month old daughter, Kinsley. I attended Eastern Kentucky University and obtained my BFA in Printmaking, under David Mohallatee, along with a Minor in Art History. I also earned my BA in English with capstone courses in both Literature and Creative Writing at the same time. Upon graduating, I pursued and obtained a Master of Arts in Teaching for Art Teaching P-12 - I have been the sole art teacher at North Bullitt High School for the past 4 years. During my undergraduate studies for my BFA, I won two juried show titles for “Best in Printmaking,” and was selected to participate in the “State of the Art” invitational show at Georgetown College. I have been a member of Bluegrass Printmakers for the past 3 years, and was fortunate to be selected as the 2020 Winter Print Club artist, and more recently I have participated in the Poems and Prints Exhibition at the Living Arts and Science Center. My work primarily focuses on blending traditional print techniques with a more contemporary print media approach. I enjoy exploring the limits of what constitutes a print, and challenging viewers conceptually.
Ashley Worley
Studio Monstera: I'm a "stuff person", and a collector with a maximalist style. This painting shows some stuff in my studio. I often marry my love of painting and printmaking because they are two very different processes that allow me to choose a media that fits my headspace for the day. When I'm not feeling intuitive with my paint brush- I can embrace the sequential and labor intensive practice of carving a linoleum block or preparing a silk screen.
Lucky 7: I grew up in suburbs all my life. I've seen a lot of media that would make this seem like a bad thing. Suburban Horror is even a movie genre. Instead of the eerily similar rows of houses making me uneasy, I always felt so lucky to have a home that I knew was special on the inside. A unique sanctuary can be carved out amongst the sameness. The unity a comforting familiarity.
Little e: a practice in observation, experiments in combining painting and printmaking, a reflection of my love for patterns, typography, and knickknacks
I am a Lexington based, mixed media artist specializing in printmaking, painting, and collage. My work reflects my ordinary life with its beauty and quirks and incorporates motifs that I have a personal connection to like a duck in a raincoat, a viceroy butterfly, or a nesting doll. I love color, kitsch, and nature. I love the imperfect qualities of mark-making. Watching children make art for years as a teacher has influenced me to follow my interests in a spontaneous and non-judgmental way. 8-year-old me would be excited to know that I'm still using glitter and neon pink in the art that I now make as an adult.
Haley Younce
As an artist working in both relief and intaglio printmaking, I am constantly exploring the tension between light and dark as well as positive and negative space. Relief printmaking allows me to create bold, graphic imagery while intaglio printing allows me to create more delicate, detailed textures. My artwork is heavily influenced by the subconscious mind and the complex inner workings of the human psyche. Printing allows me to take the personal and sometimes difficult experiences of my own mental health journey and translate them into visually striking and thought-provoking works. Ultimately, the process of carving, etching, and printing the works serve as a cathartic release, as I can work through and express my emotions in a safe and controlled environment.
Kentucky based artist Haley Younce has participated in several exhibitions, small and large group, spanning over the last six years. Her work has been displayed throughout the state including the Kentucky Folk Art Center, Golding-Yang Art Gallery, Gateway Regional Arts Center, as well as the Loudoun House in Lexington, KY. Haley’s work has also been published for 4 years in the Inscape Literary and Visual Arts Journal through Morehead State University as well as “The Hand”, International Magazine. Haley graduated from Morehead State University with a BA in art with a teaching certification (P-12) as well as an MA in studio art. Currently, she maintains a studio in Morehead, KY.
These works explore the symbiotic relationship between rhythm, movement, music and dance. I have been studying and practicing printmaking in all it's forms for more than 20 years. My favorites are copperplate etchings and waterless lithography, a method taught by the late professor Ross Zirkle
Marta Dorton
Through the Bluegrass Printmakers I have taken classes and experienced community. I learned several printmaking processes, but it is monotype and collagraph that draws me in. Monotype can be a painterly method and collagraph is a building method. I combine both of these aspects into my current printmaking and mixed media art. I adhere an array of repurposed elements onto collagraph prints. Elements may be printmaking scraps, paper to be recycled, tickets, fabric, receipts, anything glue-able. Each mixed media piece describes a handful of the vast connections that tie us to our world, universe and each other. The use of repurposed items serves as a reminder to reuse, donate, recycle - be kind to the earth. Each small act of kindness helps pave a path toward a healthy earth for all.
Marta Dorton is a Lexington visual artist, author and creator of acrylic paintings, printmaking, mixed media and poetry. She enjoys various creative pursuits in her EncaustiCastle studio.
Jenn Hunt
I am a lifelong record devotee. Few things make me as happy as putting one of my favorite records on the stereo. In my mind, vinyl and printmaking are conceptually similar. They both involve art that is enacted through grooves on a plate. Both make the people who love them work for their art, by carefully cleaning records and getting up to flip the side or by thoughtfully inking and burnishing linocuts to capture the beauty of the carving. In this print, I try to capture the meditative joy of interacting with vinyl records, which of course includes being able to study the artwork on the record sleeves. The two records in the print are personal favorites (Songs in the Key of Life and Dusty in Memphis), and the background evokes other ways in which our lives are filled with beautiful grooves.
As a college student, I was torn between pursuing Psychology and pursuing Art and Art History. My desire to use social science to document and reduce race and gender inequalities, particularly in the legal system, ultimately prevailed, although I did finish a co-major in Art. Throughout graduate school and my early years as a college professor, I nurtured my creative side through knitting, jewelry making, and other activities. When I moved to Lexington in 2018 to become a faculty member in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Kentucky, I was determined to return to studio art. I started painting and drawing again in the studio of Lexington artist, Christine Kuhn. Tying together my artistic, academic, and social justice passions, my first exhibited work was a painting titled, A Change is the Air, which was part of a series of paintings of Black Lives Matter activists. I began exploring printmaking in late 2021, and I enjoy how the medium forces me to think and create in ways that are different from painting.
Cristina Igelmo
These images were completed during the pandemic 2022 depicting people I met and places I visited during this time. I have been working with various printmaking techniques, such as; intaglio, relief, and screen printing over the last 12-15 years.
Natalia Ilieva
I create most of my art works using traditional etching, an intaglio printmaking process. I enjoy each step of the process. While working on my plate it is important for me to feel the materials - the metal plate, the ink, the paper. When I get to know their character better, they reveal to me many different ways of achieving the results I am looking for. A sense for the character of the materials used is present in the printed image. This process as well as the feelings I have from observing nature’s beauty around me is the inspiration for creating my art. Through typical for the etching technique lines and textures I express most accurately these feelings.
I have been a member of Bluegrass Printmakers since 2006. During this time I have participated in many Bluegrass Printmakers group exhibitions. In 2000 I received Masters degree in printmaking from National Academy of Arts Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1989-1994 I studied drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture at National School of Fine Arts “Iliya Petrov” Sofia, Bulgaria.
Stephanie Parker
My art tends to include images of nature, death, and the supernatural. I am interested in exploring how these themes are interconnected. Her Chair is an image based on my grandmother's armchair, where she sat to draw and crochet. While it was a simple piece of furniture, it remains a centerpiece of my memories of her. Even after she was gone, the chair never felt empty.
I grew up in a very rural area of Eastern Kentucky, later moved to Central Kentucky for college, and have been here ever since. I received my BS in Education and my MAed in Library Science. I have been teaching for 14 years, the last nine as a school librarian. I began printmaking five years ago, with linocut. Since then, I’ve learned and experimented with several forms of printmaking and mixed media art. I’ve served as Bluegrass Printmakers’ secretary and am currently serving as the organization’s president. I have continued to learn about printmaking art and to build relationships with other artists within these roles.
Matt Reno
I love traveling to new places and capturing those memories through art. Carving and printing a scenic landscape allows me to spend more time with the image, thus giving me more space to reflect on the location and my associations with it. In 2017 I took a Bluegrass Printmakers introduction to printmaking workshop and immediately gravitated toward linocut. I am also a graphic designer, so printmaking provides artistic balance, allowing me to get my hands dirty and not worry about perfection. In addition to making my own prints, I enjoy teaching the craft to others through in-person workshops and online Skillshare classes.
Tonya Vance
To me, art has always been very personal, a way to communicate an impression or a feeling with others. I am inspired by relationships between people and things, like family, nature, and biology. The prints in this exhibit range from purely abstract, geometric design to landscape. I hope that people will find something to connect with in each piece.
Tonya Vance is a multi-media artist living in Lexington, KY. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from Murray State University in Murray, KY with an emphasis in printmaking. Tonya creates abstract paintings, prints, and fiber art inspired by nature, biology, geometry, and family. She is a member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen, the Fiber Guild of Lexington, and Bluegrass Printmakers.
Cathy Vigor
Matrix Revealed, the title of this exhibit, includes both print images and the matrix used to create them. I have been working with multiple printmaking methods to create images that combine multiple matrices using different printmaking techniques. Each image is one of a kind rather than a print edition. These techniques include collagraphs, monotypes, monoprinting, stenciling, silk-screening, and Lino cuts. The thermofax screens and many Lino cuts used in my work have been created over 3 decades and were originally used to create large fiber wall hangings. I have added new silk screens, Lino Cuts, and collagraphs to this collection. I am drawn to color and pattern inspired by the natural world. I enjoy mixing colors and using multiple colors. The tree images in this exhibit were the result of an after Thanksgiving dinner hike at McConnell Springs where I photographed many groups of the trees.
Cathy Vigor is a fiber artist who specializes in printmaking and surface design on fiber and paper. She hand dyes silk and paper which she utilizes in feltmaking, printmaking, and encaustic painting. Her work has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibits regionally, nationally, and internationally. Most recently her work was included in Fiber Focus 2019 in St. Louis, Explorations in Felt 2020 at the Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clifton, NJ, Separate Yet Connect International FeltMakers Virtual Exhibit 2020, Archetypes Virtual Fiber Exhibit 2020, The Nude Biennial at the Lexington Art League, Lexington Art Leagues Member Exhibit 2020 and 2022. Vigor is a juried member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen in both fiber and printmaking, Kentucky Crafted, Surface Design Association, International Feltmakers Association, Fiber Guild of Lexington, and Bluegrass Printmakers Cooperative. She maintains a studio at Main and Walton Artist Studios in Lexington, KY.
Dana Wangsgard
Hanging Oak: This print is a representation of an old oak which hangs over the bluff just west of the old Fair Oaks pedestrian bridge. This bluff offers terrific views of the Sacramento valley and the north side of the American River. The oak tree has half of its root system exposed in the air as the bluff edge has slowly eroded underneath. It is only a matter time before some significant enough storms undermines the ground that this oak stands on. I used a kento for block registration and a baren to make the impressions following traditional Japanese moku-hanga techniques. I hope you enjoy my offering.
Union Church, Berea Kentucky: The Berea Union Church (as well as the Berea College) was founded by John Gregg Fee in 1853. Both the college and the church are non-denominational, and racially integrated since their founding. Fee founded the church on the principles of social and racial equality and believed slavery to be a sin. Equality and acceptance are pillars of the organization to this day. The building architecture is Greek Revival Style brick designed by W. H. Nicklas of Cleveland, Ohio.
I spent my early years in a suburb of Sacramento called Fair Oaks. Fair Oaks was a real Mayberry kind of town. I now live in Berea, which reminds me of what Fair Oaks was a half a century ago. My day job is working as a system’s engineer, my credentials are in mechanical engineering. During my college days I made it a practice to take a watercolor course each semester to balance all the science classes and help me stay sane. I truly believe that facilitated getting through the rigor of the engineering program. Since moving to Berea and while working at the Blue Grass Army Depot, I have served as the primary caregiver for my husband during his fight against esophageal cancer – he lost his battle in December 2016 and primary caregiver for my mother who was fighting dementia – she lost her battle with dementia in September 2021. I cared for both at home, with help from a paid local nursing aid until their final hours. I have since remarried to the love of my life. However, during my mother’s decline my sister who has a BA at Colorado state Boulder, encouraged me to take some printmaking courses with her at the New York Academy of Arts to help with distraction. I fell in love with printmaking and continue courses with the NYAA expanding the knowledge base beyond relief printing to now include sketching, mixed media, encaustics, and moku-hanga techniques.
R Vincent Whelan
Inspired by the Rorschach test, I use paper as both the matrix and substrate - the print is made by applying ink to a blank playing card (the matrix, holding the ink within the small grooves) - pressure is applied with another blank card on top (the substrate); however, I go beyond the Rorschach one-fold processes and add multiple layers of India ink, pulling the same substrate multiple times from the same matrix in what I have termed Multiple Impression Monotypes. You end with the plate being the mirror of the print, which can then be placed together as a diptych to create a larger, more cohesive image - the print and the plate both become integral parts of the dialogue within the work and exist in a codependent relationship with one another.
I was born and raised in Elizabethtown, Ky, but now reside in Shepherdsville, Ky with my wife, Kaylie, and our two month old daughter, Kinsley. I attended Eastern Kentucky University and obtained my BFA in Printmaking, under David Mohallatee, along with a Minor in Art History. I also earned my BA in English with capstone courses in both Literature and Creative Writing at the same time. Upon graduating, I pursued and obtained a Master of Arts in Teaching for Art Teaching P-12 - I have been the sole art teacher at North Bullitt High School for the past 4 years. During my undergraduate studies for my BFA, I won two juried show titles for “Best in Printmaking,” and was selected to participate in the “State of the Art” invitational show at Georgetown College. I have been a member of Bluegrass Printmakers for the past 3 years, and was fortunate to be selected as the 2020 Winter Print Club artist, and more recently I have participated in the Poems and Prints Exhibition at the Living Arts and Science Center. My work primarily focuses on blending traditional print techniques with a more contemporary print media approach. I enjoy exploring the limits of what constitutes a print, and challenging viewers conceptually.
Ashley Worley
Studio Monstera: I'm a "stuff person", and a collector with a maximalist style. This painting shows some stuff in my studio. I often marry my love of painting and printmaking because they are two very different processes that allow me to choose a media that fits my headspace for the day. When I'm not feeling intuitive with my paint brush- I can embrace the sequential and labor intensive practice of carving a linoleum block or preparing a silk screen.
Lucky 7: I grew up in suburbs all my life. I've seen a lot of media that would make this seem like a bad thing. Suburban Horror is even a movie genre. Instead of the eerily similar rows of houses making me uneasy, I always felt so lucky to have a home that I knew was special on the inside. A unique sanctuary can be carved out amongst the sameness. The unity a comforting familiarity.
Little e: a practice in observation, experiments in combining painting and printmaking, a reflection of my love for patterns, typography, and knickknacks
I am a Lexington based, mixed media artist specializing in printmaking, painting, and collage. My work reflects my ordinary life with its beauty and quirks and incorporates motifs that I have a personal connection to like a duck in a raincoat, a viceroy butterfly, or a nesting doll. I love color, kitsch, and nature. I love the imperfect qualities of mark-making. Watching children make art for years as a teacher has influenced me to follow my interests in a spontaneous and non-judgmental way. 8-year-old me would be excited to know that I'm still using glitter and neon pink in the art that I now make as an adult.
Haley Younce
As an artist working in both relief and intaglio printmaking, I am constantly exploring the tension between light and dark as well as positive and negative space. Relief printmaking allows me to create bold, graphic imagery while intaglio printing allows me to create more delicate, detailed textures. My artwork is heavily influenced by the subconscious mind and the complex inner workings of the human psyche. Printing allows me to take the personal and sometimes difficult experiences of my own mental health journey and translate them into visually striking and thought-provoking works. Ultimately, the process of carving, etching, and printing the works serve as a cathartic release, as I can work through and express my emotions in a safe and controlled environment.
Kentucky based artist Haley Younce has participated in several exhibitions, small and large group, spanning over the last six years. Her work has been displayed throughout the state including the Kentucky Folk Art Center, Golding-Yang Art Gallery, Gateway Regional Arts Center, as well as the Loudoun House in Lexington, KY. Haley’s work has also been published for 4 years in the Inscape Literary and Visual Arts Journal through Morehead State University as well as “The Hand”, International Magazine. Haley graduated from Morehead State University with a BA in art with a teaching certification (P-12) as well as an MA in studio art. Currently, she maintains a studio in Morehead, KY.
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