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Bertha's Curtains

Bertha's Curtains

Title

Bertha's Curtains

Description

Jennifer Hughes received an MFA in Printmaking in 2002. She writes,"After graduating from the University of Iowa in 2002, I returned to Boston to teach. Currently, I teach part-time at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Medicine Wheel School and the Brookline Adult and Community Education Program. I also help manage exhibitions the Resnikoff Gallery of Roxbury Community College. For a year now, I have had a studio space at the Vernon Street Studios in Somerville, MA, which has a strong and vibrant arts community."
Of her work, Hughes writes,"Most recently I have begun a new series of large woodcuts, printed as monoprints with other found textures and imagery. Bertha's Curtains, for example, uses the lace from my mother as a printed texture attached to another printed image. I'd had that lace for some time, and the printed image for a while as well. It just took some time to see the two together as a pair. My prints reference hands, not as an act of placidly surrendering, but of giving oneself to a higher force (whatever that force may be) and not feeling that every thing, every little detail has be to be controlled. Happy mistakes, kismet, fate.". or as my father would say (with a sigh and shrug of his shoulders) 'stuff happens.' In my life and in my art, I try to recognize those occurrences and allow them to lead my creativity."

Creator

Hughes, Jennifer

Publisher

University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History

Date

2007-09-27

Rights

Digital collection © The University of Iowa. All works are copyright the individual artist.

Relation

The Daily Palette Digital Collection
Visual Arts
http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=1078
http://www.jennifer-hughes.com/

Format

35
34
woodcut monoprint

Type

Still image
Woodcut (Process); Woodcuts (Prints); Monoprint (Painting and printing process); Monoprints (Painting and printing works)

Identifier

berthascurtainsjpg.jpg
183409339
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/