Gwen Partin - NEMAA

Location

1500 Jackson Street Northeast
#452
Minneapolis, MN
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I work in drawing, printmaking, collage and book arts. I interpret the human and natural made world and what we experience in life relating to nature, the body, words, texture and pattern. I’m drawn to patterns and textures in the natural environment. Textiles are also a big influence on my work, where systems of woven, tiled or tessellated designs inspire my approach. In all my work, I am balancing on degrees of control and playfulness, letting the materials be what they will create, while having specific influence from my hands and ideas to get to a particular result.

Drawing provides a meditative basis to my art practice forming the seed for further work in printmaking. In printmaking I use monotype, cut paper stencils, relief blocks and collagraph plates. My process involves making matrices that create a lexicon of parts I then collage back together. Monotypes is a painterly way of printmaking where I use rollers and brushes to apply ink to a plexiglass plate and transfer the image to paper with an etching press.