WALLPOWER: Limitless Prints Curated by Cathy Weiss and Nancy Jo Haselbacher Featuring: Mary Sherwood Brock Nancy Jo Haselbacher Emily Joyce Poli Marichal Sarah Pavsner Cathy Weiss Penny Young On view: April 23 - June 3, 2011 Talk with the Artists & Curators: Saturday, April 23, 3 pm Reception: Saturday, May 7, 6-9 pm Postcard Exhibition Photos Return to Brand Library Art Galleries Schedule page

Curators' Statement
What is it about size? Surely in Los Angeles we love space; the impact of “large–scale” rarely fails to delight. Driving though the many different communities and the landscape of Los Angeles has a specific impact on the artists who live here. In the Renaissance, printmakers pushed beyond the boundaries of their craft, making large printed installations, friezes and murals depicting maps, architecture and the nobility.

Piecing together individual prints created on small presses with even smaller paper they created enveloping environments to demonstrate particular viewpoints of their time. The advent of digital technology has merged with ancient methods such as wood cut and engraving, and artists still find this method of expressing the world around them using multiples highly seductive. While appreciative of (but not content to be confined to) the classic piece of paper with the traditional plate mark and border, the artists in this exhibition use printmaking to represent their own world here in Los Angeles, this vast city of possibility.


ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Nancy Jo Haselbacher’s work explores issues of mystery, movement, and presence within the body and land. Using printmaking and photography, she reveals others’ direct or indirect imprint, temporal records of her own experience, and ephemeral traces of inhabitation. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles at The Craft and Folk Art Museum and Track 16 Gallery, at Temple University in Rome, The Museum of Urban Art and Culture, Boston, and The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut. More information about Haselbacher’s can be found on her website.	Nancy Jo Haselbacher Borrowed: Mystery, Romance and Knowledge
Emily Joyce is a Los Angeles-based artist whose paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including solo shows at Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York and Inman Gallery, Houston, as well as group shows at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and LACE in Los Angeles. She has work in the collection of The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Ulrich Museum, and The Art Gallery of Ontario. More information about Joyce's work can be found on her website.	Emily Joyce Sun Burn (Rainbow) 1
Poli Marichal is a printmaker, painter, filmmaker and puppeteer originally from Puerto Rico. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally at, among others, The Fowler Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, The Korean Cultural Institute, Tropico de Nopal Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, The Snite Museum at the University of Notre Dame, The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, and The PARCO Museum, Japan. Her paintings, prints and videos are in numerous private and public collections. More information about Marichal's work can be found on her website.	Poli Marichal Air
Sarah Pavsner began her career in photography. She now works in installation and print based media. Her work for WALLPOWER focuses on the evolution of a structure (weathering, adornment, defacement) and its parallels to the society that interacts with it. Pavsner works and lives in Los Angeles. More information about Pavsner's work can be found on her website.	Sarah Pavsner Tempest in the Teapot
Mary Sherwood Brock is an artist whose work explores the narratives of fables as reflected in contemporary science and philosophy and how these reprocessed narratives influence one’s personal allegory. An artist, educator and curator, Sherwood Brock has shown internationally and has been the recipient of several grants including a National Endowment for the Arts grant for her work in printmaking. More information about Brock's work can be found on her website.	Mary Sherwood Brock You Are What You Eat
Penny Young is a sculptor, poet and arts educator. Her practice includes paper and ceramic sculpture, installation, drawing and kinetic works. Young graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara, and received her MFA from California State University Northridge. In her work she examines workflow systems such as electricity, offices, paper trails, and the cycle of chaos and order using many of the materials we experience every day. More information about Young's work can be found on her website.	Penny Young Myopic Secret (detail)
Using a wide variety of largely organic materials Cathy Weiss creates woodcut print installations that address spiritual, psychological and physical interstices. She is interested in the symbolism of subjects such as trees, knots, and light and how they share a commonality across cultures. Most recently her work has been exhibited in New York, North Carolina, the United Kingdom as well as venues locally. Weiss is dedicated to promoting arts opportunities for children through teaching and community projects. More information about Weiss’s work can be found on her blog.	Cathy Weiss Holding On Letting Go

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