Colin Palombi is a teaching artist and initiator of projects; most often focusing his practice in video and printmaking. He teaches art and history at the Montessori School of Lake Forest and animation at Marwen, a nonprofit organization offering free art programs for under-served Chicago youth.
Website:
colinpalombi.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Stop Motion Animation
Screenprinting on Paper (Jan 2015)
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Jenna Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary artist with experience in printmaking, typography, book arts, papermaking, digital printing, and new media. She is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia where she received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in printmaking and photo media at Old Dominion University. Jenna currently lives and works in Chicago where she is received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago in 2013. She has taught Introduction to Letterpress, an undergraduate level class at Columbia College, and was a two year Print Production Fellow at the Center for Book and Paper Arts where she assisted Brad Freeman with the production of JAB (Journal of Artist Books).
Website:
jennarodriguez.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Letterpress Your Own Cards, 5/18/2014
Letterpress II: Polymer
Jaclyn is a Chicago-based artist working primarily in printmaking, using contemporary formats. She earned an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has taught at SAIC and Harrington College of Design as well as, attended residencies in the U.S. at the Ragdale Foundation Lake Forest, Il), Vermont Studios (Johnson, Vt, and Platform (Pilsen,Chicago). She has worked as an assistant to the master printers at Tandem Press in Madison, WI, with local artist/ professor Joan Livingstone and curator Mary Jane Jacob. Her artwork explores protests and acts of resistance in local communities and how one discovers a more equitable, interesting life. She examines how these things manifest in signs, in the landscape, and media, while paying attention to how an individual’s voice is revealed out in the world in relation to mass culture and powerful systems.
Website:
jaclynjacunski.com/
Residency Period:
Mar 2013–May 2013
Project Statement:
During her time here, Jaclyn worked on a series of editions that incorporated images of fences, webs, and net imagery using relief and screen-printing methods and an edition of larger screen prints of word patterns. She experimented with incorporating color abstractly during her residency, as well as working with layers and large-scale repetition pattern prints.
Artist Statement:
My artwork explores protests and acts of resistance in local communities. I examine how these things manifest in signs, in the landscape, and media, while paying attention to how an individual’s voice is revealed out in the world in relation to mass culture and powerful systems. Many of my recent works are created by encounters with an empty lot that is connected to my apartment building. This space has become a billboard and a type of art studio for me in the neighborhood landscape. Signs are posted, graffiti artists make their mark, and lost items are archived on the chain link fence by passers-by. From this urban terra firma I use leftovers to make images and forms that consider the impact of an individual’s voice within a community and use this evidence of small acts as source material. I combine and make hybrids between past voices of folk heroes, current social movements, and individual acts of resistance confusing messages to relocate their words into a network of language
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Victoria Martinez is a transdisciplinary artist and educator from Chicago who explores installation art, site-specific experiments, screenprinting, and painting. She believes in chance and intuition, creating projects for galleries and ephemeral experiences in the urban environment. Martinez works with vibrant colors; pattern based textiles, and overlooked items, sewing them together to create fresh perspectives. She has exhibited at Northwestern University, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago Cultural Center, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, and the Arts Incubator. Upcoming projects include group exhibitions at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Roots and Culture, and a solo exhibition at Washington State University.
Services Offered:
- Exhibition Opportunities
- Illustration
Website:
victoria-martinez.com/
Residency Period:
Sep 2012–Dec 2012
Project Statement:
Victoria Martinez is interested in structures of mixed media ephemeral collages. Her objectives are to establish urban environmental interventions within abandoned spaces, on her own and in collaboration with the people who live in close proximity to these spaces. These urban interventions ultimately culminate with performances that are directly related to the art work(s).
While in residence, Victoria Martinez has created an edition of vibrant screenprints on paper. During her residency she created work based on the trips between her Pilsen apartment and Spudnik Press in the Ukrainian Village. Inspired by text, found objects and urban detritus, Martinez created ephemeral collages that give a second life and greater meaning to previously discarded materials.
Yates is a recent transplant to Chicago, coming from London, where she recently received her Fine Art MA at Central Saint Martins. She studied at Wimbeldon School of Art in Surrey, where she obtained her Fine Art Sculpture BA. You can find more information, as well as more of her work, at www.pollyyates.com.
Website:
pollyyates.com/
Residency Period:
Mar 2012–May 2012
Project Statement:
While exploring themes of desire, abundance and fecundity, Yates worked with a series of collages. Due to the processes inherent in her practice of fragmentation and collage, the images will be distorted or hidden, lending to a more abstract effect. Fragmenting an image enables her to distort it while maintaining it`s integrity. It also allows her to weave images into one another, giving the appearance of one image melting into the other, so that the boundaries of each is blurred, in flux. In the complexity of the process, she references the Baroque, with excessive ornamentation and the folding in of the outside.
During her residency at Spudnik Press, Yates completed a series of large, screen print collages for the wall, plus an accompanying series of smaller works. Yates says, “I work in the exact opposite way to most print makers; instead of taking one image and making multiples, I take multiples and create one image.” Due to the nature and complexity of her process, she produced one-off pieces, rather than editions. Exhibition of her work created during the residency is forthcoming.
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B Ingrid Olson received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010. Since then she has taken a print installation class at Ox-bow School of Art and has been participating in open studio print nights at Spudnik.
Website:
www.bingridolson.com/
Residency Period:
Jun 2013–Aug 2013
Project Statement:
Interested in the concept of slowing down time, Ingrid Olson enlarges her works in an attempt to make small moments less manageable. Her process begins by enlarging original grease pencil drawings which carry the slight texture of paper through the mark making. The combination of the size and medium used to create her images has the inability to convey specifics, leaving the viewer with a disorienting lack of detail. “I want to expand and extend the experience of feeling the ineffable and noticing the unnoticeable.”, says Olson. The act of viewing her work is slowed by the fuzzy manner, but also because the larger the image, the harder it is to take it all in at once and in order to understand, the viewer must look longer.
During her residency, Olson completed a series of singular screen printed drawings, enlarged from smaller charcoal drawings. They were printed on canvas, ranging in size and loosely related in narrative content. Exhibition of her work created during the residency is forthcoming.
Press/Reviews:
Small Press and Comics Symposium, Pilsen’s Chicago Art Department (CAD), March, 2011
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Dawn Gettler received her MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University in 2006. Since then, she has actively been traveling and creating new work at residencies throughout the country, including Artspace in Raleigh, NC and ART342 in Fort Collins, CO.
Website:
www.dawngettler.com/
Residency Period:
Mar 2011–May 2011
Project Statement:
Many of our daily actions are habitual and mundane. Dawn Gettler examines how sustainable and fulfilling these mundane actions can be. Saying “thank you”, replying “you’re welcome” are actions we take because we have been conditioned to. Gettler questions our ability to live with this compliance in social relationships and the sugar-coated and contrived dialogs that are expressed. She wonders at her own ability to be compliant, at the control compliance exerts over her understanding of ideals.She questions these behaviors by making multiples, a meditative and sometimes unpleasant task. I take these multiples and install them into a space where the work can affect and be effected by the viewer. Often the viewer will simply walk on and through the spaces. “My intention is for these ephemeral installations to create spaces in the viewer’s visual and experiential memory,” says Gettler.
During her residency, Gettler printed a series of wallpapers that became a component of multiple installations she created in her studio practice. In addition to creating large space-specific work, she completed a small series of intaglio prints to compliment and inform her sculptural installations.
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Jessica Taylor Caponigro received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and before that she attended Bryn Mawr College where she earned her BA in the History of Art. Jessica runs a small handmade bag and accessory company, Fiori Falsi, where she prints the majority of the fabric. She has taught Printmaking classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Appreciation classes at Olive Harvey College. She currently teaches Printmaking for Educators, a non toxic class, at Harold Washington College. Jessica has been an instructor at Spudnik Press since 2011.
Website:
jtaylorcaponigro.com/
Project Statement:
In her work, Taylor examines the psychological affects of seemingly faux luxury materials and artificial domestic items. she is interested in the dichotomy of synthetic materials and their ability to maintain beauty while inherently retaining a sense of their own failure. Taylor brings into focus the indistinct space between the intention of ideals represented by authentic goods and the misguided interpretation of their synthetic counterparts. Taylor finds printmaking’s inherent ability to create multiples, makes prints very accessible and directly relates to the affordable faux goods.
During Taylor’s residency at Spudnik she explored issues surrounding pattern, repetition, and reproduction. Taylor printed a subtly complex edition of etchings; wallpaper patterns inspired by class differences in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1874).
Press/Reviews:
MDW Fair Fall Showcase , October, 2011
