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martedì 13 dicembre 2011

MEGAN FRAUENHOFFER – PRINTMAKING +DRAWING



















“Megan Frauenhoffer/Megan Frau pronounced  like this: Frow-in-hof-er

Bio: I am a printmaking artist originating from St. Louis, Missouri. In May 2010, I completed the Master’s in Printmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where the thesis work explored the unconscious by blending memory with appropriations of fairy tale and myth. The art draws from personal experiences as an identical twin and a love of stories from all origins. To date, my career highlights include MCAD MFA exhibitions at the Burnet Gallery and The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, all-female group shows Feminality at Los Angeles’s Hive Gallery and Glass, Cinder and Thorns at 323East in Royal Oak, Michigan, the Multiversal group exhibition featured at Art Basel Miami, becoming Altered Esthetics’ featured artist for March on their 2010 artists calendar, being listed as one of Minneapolis City Page’s 100 Creatives, and invitation to the Dirty Printmakers of America’s States of the State printmaking exchange that made an appearance at the 54th Venice Biennale. As a printmaker, I have been accepted to various printmaking/works-on-paper juried shows including Print U.S.A., Paper in Particular, Los Angeles Printmaking Society and SHY Rabbit Print National. Most recently, my artwork has been appearing in print such as FIND Art Magazine, Beautiful/Decay Book 6, Hive:5 Comics Anthology, and Paper Darts Press’s Get In If You Want to Live.
Artist Statement: My art explores emotions that hide between reality and the subconscious. I am interested in whether particular emotional moments shape our being or if behavior is hereditary, unable to control or overcome. Growing up as a test subject for a longitudinal twin behavioral study, I am drawn to the discourse of nature vs. nurture in human development. My prints and drawings chart a narrative of reflection to moments of awkwardness, confusion, anger, grief, or loneliness. These instances of contemplation are infused with fantastical tales culturally embedded from our childhoods such as myths and fables. Within these new phantasms, animals, spirits, doppelgangers, and monsters collide with the heroine, empowering or overwhelming her. The use of  folktale allusions connects to wider understanding of struggle and growth as well as reinvent the story’s outcome. I investigate these notions through a combination of illustrative detailing, emotive marks with printmaking and drawing media. An abstract and dreamlike state is evoked through the distressed surfaces, inkblot atmospheres, and the misprint and layering of uneven flood strokes of silkscreen printing. A sense of unease is hinted in the stuttering lines of the figure’s overall appearance. The prints capitalize on printmaking’s capacity for repetition, repeating similar figures to echo the exploration of self or lack thereof, often drawing from personal experiences of being an identical twin. The narrative is structured through an intuitive process of printing the image in response to what layer was previously printed on the paper.Within this investigation, there is a subsequent study using imperfect prints, casts offs of an edition, as collage fodder that mutates the heroine into multi-limbed and anthropomorphic monsters. Cutting up and reconfiguring the misprints reveals a darker insight of one’s psyche. These processes reveal unconscious thoughts filter through the conscious mind, invoking subjective interpretations based on shared experiences.”

Image: Megan Frauenhoffer (artist)



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