Elizabeth Klimek, This Land Was Our Land
Elizabeth Klimek
Seneca
Date
2016
Medium Specific
Archival ink jet, screenprint on Revere
Edition / State
27/35
Classification
Print
Dimensions
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Accession Number
2016.20.20.24
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Memo / Artist Statement
I have been researching the colonialization of America recently and the song "This Land is Your Land" by Woody Guthrie kept coming back to me over and over. I started with an ink jet image of a deteriorating urban texture, and used it to make up the sky for my landscape. I then screen printed images of landscapes in four layers to create depth for the natural environment. The background and foreground juxtapose each other not only in visual appearance, but also in theoretical ways such as technology (the ink jet print vs. the hand pulled print) and Manifest Destiny, (nature vs. industrialization/expansion).
Biography
Elizabeth Klimek (elizabethklimek.com) is an independent artist and teaches remotely for the College of Southern Nevada. She is of Seneca (Cornplanter) decent, but holds no tribal affiliations. She received her BFA from West Virginia University and her MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Klimek is a working artist living in Gaithersburg, MD, who shows her work nationally and internationally. Her most recent group exhibitions include: CNTRL + P: Printmaking in the 21st Century by University of Tennessee Alumni, Ewing Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN, Power of the Press, Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, OH, Hand Pulled: The Current Practice in Printmaking, OnSite: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, National Printmaking Exhibition 2015, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, and the Atlanta Print Biennial At Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA.
Klimek is a working artist living in Gaithersburg, MD, who shows her work nationally and internationally. Her most recent group exhibitions include: CNTRL + P: Printmaking in the 21st Century by University of Tennessee Alumni, Ewing Gallery of Art, Knoxville, TN, Power of the Press, Coburn Gallery, Ashland University, Ashland, OH, Hand Pulled: The Current Practice in Printmaking, OnSite: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, National Printmaking Exhibition 2015, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS, and the Atlanta Print Biennial At Kai Lin Art, Atlanta, GA.
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