Convergent Topologies Co-curated with gallery artist Barbara Robertson

Catherine Bebout, Monika Furmanski, Kevin Haas, Amanda Knowles,
Jeanne Lorenz, Nancy Macko, Mark Meyer & Barbara Noah.

June 6-28, 2008

Convergent Topologies is an exhibition of eight diverse artists from the Northwest region and both coasts whose work combines the analog elements of printmaking and drawing with digital media including photography and appropriated images from the Internet.  Co-curated by artist Barbara Robertson and Davidson Galleries Director Cara Forrler, this exhibition exemplifies the contemporary field of printmaking in which hybridization and transparency of media is the excepted norm.  In contemporary print art, definitions of technique are dissolving, and artists find themselves comfortably moving between an abundance of processes.   The translation and convergence of one process with another creates unique images in which the permeable surfaces reveal and disguise shapes and layers.

These artists share a common interest in the exploration and observation of our culture's various contemporary topologies, including our expanding urban landscape, the rapidly growing and vast global Internet, the interface of pop culture and fine art,  the mapping of land, and our relationship to space.  They blend printmaking, drawing (by hand or on the computer), photography, and digital collage, in which images are found and electronically cut and pasted.  This dialog between processes has been a vital part of art history and continues to be.  This exhibit reflects a range of the potential this hybrid medium holds for us now.

• Related Publication: Exhibition Catalog (Download PDF)

Catherine Bebout

Monika Furmanski

Kevin Haas

Amanda Knowles

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Jeanne Lorenz

Nancy Macko

Mark Meyer

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Barbara Noah

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