Digital Luminaries Portfolio and Exhibition
Digital Luminaries: Portfolio Exhibition
41st Annual SGC International Conference – Print:MKE
University of Wisconsin PSOA Kenilworth Square East, Milwaukee, WI
Curators: Deborah Cornell and Joshua Brennan
As printmaking transforms and absorbs new elements of form and expression, new communities with like interests form within the vibrant contemporary print community. Digital expressions now permeate the field and are used within and among our respected traditional forms. "Making" in the digital print media requires artists continually to shift between the lighted screen and the printed page. Digital expressions constitute a specific vernacular within the language of printmaking as the digital print idiom combines pigment with images in light, images that embody immateriality and a transformation of form. In keeping with the idea of illumination, the works in this portfolio will hover between pigment and light. Printed on transparency film, they will be exhibited suspended in the open. Many print artists – "digital luminaries" – have developed and expanded our understanding of the making of these new means for printmaking, and new artists are appearing to extend these efforts. This portfolio seeks to focus and enlarge the community of digital print artists by presenting the works of established artists (for whom digital means are central to their work in print) along with artists who are now defining or redefining their concept of medium, using the potential of digital process to expand - and sometimes define - their visual content.