Connie Wolfe, Calve, Stone Lithography & Screenprint, 9.75 x 13.25 in, 2018
Artwork Statement:
In my time outdoors, I am inspired by the subtleties, colors and textures in natural environments that typically go unnoticed. The resulting art becomes a response to getting lost in the complexity that nature presents. Organic shapes and tonal structures transform these realities into obscured identities through abstraction, isolation and enlargement in my work.
Calve is part of an ongoing body of work that documents pieces of glacier seen on my trip to Iceland. Each piece in this series isolates the glacier chunks from their environment so that they become visual portraits documenting them in a way that is only seen in that exact point of time. This particular piece was printed here, at Harold Washington College, as part of our pre-covid Free Print Day tradition. Two layers were screen printed with blue and interference color and the final layer was a stone lithograph printed with black ink.
Artist Bio:
Connie is an artist living in Chicago whose practice focuses on printmaking, drawing and mixed-media installations. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Connie earned her BA in Painting from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. After working as a graphic designer and continuing to develop skills in printmaking for five years, Connie earned an MFA in Printmaking at Ohio University. She has taught both college-level and community courses in Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio and currently works as a Department of Art & Architecture College Lab Assistant II at Harold Washington College.
Connie has exhibited her work internationally in solo, invitational and juried exhibitions including places such as Brazil, Portugal, England, Russia, Italy and China. She has received national awards for works in printmaking and participated in a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She also has art and site-specific commissions in collections including the Racine Art Museum, Janet Turner Print Museum, the Ekaterinburg Museum of Art, Sheldon Landy, Penny Brown, Northwestern Medicine and many universities.