INTRODUCTIONS 2010

Ellen Heck • Carrie Lingscheit • Matt Rebholz

Showing June 4-26, 2010

The Contemporary Print and Drawing Center is pleased to introduce the work of three new young print artists working with the etching process to create visual narratives: Ellen Heck (California), Carrie Lingscheit (Ohio) and Matt Rebolz (Austin, Texas).

Ellen Heck

Ellen Heck earned her printmaking degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Her work is influenced by and often references the compositions and techniques of the color etchings by Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt.

Carrie Lingscheit

Carrie Lingscheit, a recent MFA graduate from Ohio University, Athens, using various intaglio processes, creates images through a process of editing, erasure and exaggeration that allude to the intractable nature of remembrance, creating open-ended and implied narratives.

Matt Rebholz

Adjunct Lecturer at Southwestern University, Matt Rebholz is rooted in a figurative tradition that explores a narrative sensibility laden with a combination of violence, mordant humor, and social consciousness.

The Golem Project

The Golem project is a suite of twenty etchings inspired by the tale of the Frankenstein-esque figure from Jewish folklore. Perhaps the best known of the Jewish legends, the Golem is an automaton, usually made from mud or clay and created through an intense and systematic mystical process. In Hebrew, the word golem refers to something unformed and imperfect, and implies a body without a soul. The narrative arc of the prints is a loose re-imagining of the 1915 Gustav Meyrink novel Der Golem, in which the title character wanders the streets of a corrupt and ruined city, blissfully unaware that he is a malfunctioning meat robot and not truly a man.

• Visit Rebholz's artist page for more work, including the entire Golem series.