Gallery Talk with Karen Kunc May 26, 2007

Additional Info
Join us on Saturday, May 26, at 12:00 noon for a Gallery Talk with one of Nebraska's most-accomplished and best known printmakers. Karen Kunc creates work representative of fragmentary moments, chance encounters, the immeasurability of time and other invisible physical forces. She places these notions into iconic images of creation, preservation and allusions to human myth and metaphor. Her woodcuts and etchings frequently explore how eternal forces shape the natural world, and she articulates this by juxtaposing ambiguous spatial illusions with elements of shape and color.

This Gallery Talk is in conjunction with Kunc's solo show Sensory Source on view through May 2006, 2007. The artist will also be part of a special Printmaker's Workshop at the Bemis Center from April 27 - April 29, 2007.

About the Artist
Karen Kunc received a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University in 1977 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975 from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is the Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, where she has taught since 1983. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has taught numerous printmaking workshops around the world. Her work is in the collections of important public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Kunc's awards include the Nebraska 2000 Governor's Arts Award, Artist of the Year, the University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award of 1998 and a Fulbright Scholarship for research travel to Finland in 1996. Kunc recently received the first annual the Omaha Entertainment Award (OEA) for the category of Printmaking in 2006.

Official Website: http://www.bemiscenter.org/get_involved/index.html?req=calendar/event&eventUniqID=5876-0--&month=5&day=1&year=2007