East Coast Artist Brings Monoprint Exhibit To West Coast Gallery
From: Kristin Shauck
To: Media
Date: 09/11/08
Subject: Harold Lohner at CCC Art Center Gallery PR
Clatsop Community College
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 09/11/08
Contact: Kristin Shauck (503) 338-2472
East Coast Artist Brings Monoprint Exhibit To West Coast Gallery
The Art Center Gallery at Clatsop Community College in Astoria, OR will open its exhibition season with the artwork of printmaker Harold Lohner of Albany, New York. There will be an opening reception held Thursday, October 2nd at 6:00 p.m. at the Art Center Gallery, and the artwork will remain on exhibit through October 31st, 2008. As one of the purchase award winners of CCC’s second Annual International Juried Exhibition “Au Naturel: The Nude in the 21st Century,” Lohner’s striking monoprint entitled Man and Nature was selected for the college’s permanent collection. In addition, Lohner was also offered the major prize of a solo exhibition at the Art Center Gallery.
Historically, the majority of nudes exhibited in museums and galleries tend to represent the female form. Lohner, on the other hand, focuses on the male form almost exclusively, which he describes as not only autobiographical in the sense of a self-portrait, but also as an allusion to “both classical art and to contemporary issues, particularly the sensuality and spirituality of men.” In explaining his preference for the human form to his students, he points out “that popular forms of entertainment like movies and novels are almost always about people; a still life wouldn't make a very good movie! The point is that humans are interested in other humans, looking at them, thinking about them, telling stories about them.” He also explains his partiality for the medium of printmaking, which he feels has the potential to “go beyond traditional portraiture and figure drawing both in the way images combine to make sophisticated compositions and in their suggestion of narrative.”
Unlike most other types of printmaking in which an edition of multiple, identical prints are created, monoprinting, as the name implies, is a one-of-a-kind process, spontaneous and very much like painting, and has been used in the past by great artists such as Degas, Picasso, Chagall, Miro, and Matisse as well as by contemporary artists today. Lohner describes the subtractive method that he uses to create life-size and larger faces and figures as a “very physical process, like two-dimensional carving.” Working in a very loose, aggressive style, Lohner creates multiple layers of various images, colors, patterns, and textures.
Lohner received his Masters of Fine Arts in Printmaking from University at Albany, State University of New York in 1984, and is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Sage College in Albany, New York, where he has taught for the past 25 years. He has exhibited his artwork extensively across the country on both the east and west coasts as well as in the mid-west. Lohner is enthusiastic about having a solo exhibit at the Art Center Gallery and his upcoming visit to Astoria, as well as having been included in the Au Naturel exhibit last spring: “I was thrilled to get in and to have my print purchased by the college. The one-person show and visit are amazing opportunities to be offered.”
The Art Center Gallery is located at 1653 Jerome Avenue in Astoria, OR. This event is free and open to the public. The Art Center Gallery is ADA accessible. Please contact Kristin Shauck at (503) 338-2472 for more information.
The Art Center Gallery is now also accepting submissions for the 2009 Au Naturel juried competition through December 15, 2008. For more information please contact Kristin Shauck at (503) 338-2472 or visit our website at www.clatsopcc.edu and click on the link Prospectus, 2009 Au Naturel under “Downloads.”
Clatsop Community College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.
Image Attached: Harold Lohner, Full Face 1, monoprint on paper
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September 18, 2008
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