Dimensions: 23 x 20 x 1 Media: Monotype with acrylic paint using a gel print Artist Statement : I approach my artwork with urgency. My process is immediate and intuitive, whether I make monotype prints or photographs. I express emotions and moments in time. My work is spontaneous, not planned beforehand; improvised and experienced during the creative process. The monotype prints are abstract and based in color, texture, patterning and movement. The photographs are taken with an iphone and done while wandering and contemplating. The process of creating my art is as important to me as the finished product. The artwork is about improvisation and reaching a point beyond the written language. I am creating my own language – a personal visual language. My work is intimate and raw, not glossed over or artificial but in tune with life's cycles. I honor my intuition and the earth. It is action oriented and spiritual – it is not thought based but emotionally connected to my environment. Mark making and movement express my feelings and I rely on color to tell my story. The work is explorat
Dimensions: 20 x 10 x 1 Media: Gelli plate hand pulled 5"x5" diptych mono prints, set in a 10"x10" white wood frames Artist Statement : Stella Alexander is a Bulgarian-born artist who celebrates the quiet resilience of weathered beauty-her inspiration comes from the worn textures, cobblestone streets, and sun-bleached doors found in her country of birth and all across Europe. Now based in a Chesapeake Bay beach town in Maryland, she draws on childhood memories and the everyday scenery that surrounds her studio. Her process echoes natural cycles of erosion and renewal and the wabi-sabi philosophy. Alexander’s work has appeared in House & Garden Magazine and other publications. Through her work Stella captures the way memory, history, and nature continually intertwine.
Dimensions: 40 x 40 x 1 Media: Woodcut Print (moku hanga) on Japanese masa paper. Artist Statement : This piece began with an enormous zucchini leaf from my summer garden. The shade it provided for the tender squash flowers was a revelation. It was large enough to give my whole face shelter and shade as well. I wanted to create an image that celebrated hiding among the zucchini, and all the wonderful depths of this shelter, including the creatures I wished to offer safety and compassion. The steaming bowl on the table is a tribute to Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," and that moment where Max (in his wolf suit) returns to his room, to the home where he is loved most of all, where his supper is waiting for him — and it is still hot. I especially delighted in carving the steam rising from that bowl, threading it all the way up to the moon.
Dimensions: 10 x 16 x 1 Media: Intaglio print, soft ground and aquatint etching Artist Statement : My intaglio prints express a view of places and things observed on any given day. What seemingly nonrealistic or abstract characteristics within a print comes from slight differences in perspective; and playing with the wiping, relief, and color, while preparing an etched plate.
Dimensions: 8 x 11 x 1 Media: Intaglio print; soft ground etching and dry point Artist Statement : My intaglio prints express a view of places and things observed on any given day. What seemingly nonrealistic or abstract characteristics within a print comes from slight differences in perspective; and playing with the wiping, relief, and color, while preparing an etched plate.
Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 0.75 Media: Lithograph 2023 Artist Statement : Urban Landscapes have long been central to my vision. Rather than depicting cityscapes literally, I interpret them through a more distilled and intentional lens. Architectural structures become compositional elements-defining areas of color, light, and shadow that evoke mood and atmosphere. By expanding my use of texture, shadow, and illumination, each piece gains greater depth and nuance, allowing the work to more fully Embody the vision I set out to capture.
Dimensions: 14 x 11 Media: Watercolor and pigment media wire emboss print on paper Artist Statement : I am exploring new processes for printmaking using wire forms on top of a prepared tetra-pak plate to emboss and color the paper with pigment and watercolor media. This print shows a pseudo-scientific experiment, similar to a 1950s cloud chamber photograph, representing subatomic particles split and scattered into heart and moon patterns.
Dimensions: 34 x 29 x 3 Media: Etching Artist Statement : Community is a notion that we are not only connected by our heritage and proximity, but also through an exchange of ideas and a desire to help one another. Trees personify this complex and vital system. In 2016, ecologist Suzanne Simard wanted to find out if trees could talk to each other. What she found was a network of fungi underground connecting the roots of trees that not only relayed information to each other, but also provided nutrients for young and dying plants. This discovery is an embodiment of community.
Arboreal pictures act as a symbolic language for us to see how connected we are. By using different types of trees around my community in Lincoln, Nebraska and locations meaningful to me, I am portraying communities living together. We need our farmers, teachers, and artists just as much as trees need a forest. The threads that connect us may not be as visible as my work prescribes, but they are there; a continuous interconnection to one another.
Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 1 Media: Photography, digital painting printed in metallic paper under acrylic Artist Statement : Às Avessas (In Reverse) is a metaphorical exploration of humanity’s vulnerability amid accelerating technological change. Captured in Coral Gables, Florida, the original photograph shows figures beneath a canopy of colorful umbrellas suspended between buildings—objects traditionally associated with shelter and protection.
By inverting the image, the work deliberately unsettles this symbolism, suggesting a world turned upside down—where what once offered refuge now points to our disorientation. As a printed work, Às Avessas underscores the fragile balance between human presence and a reality increasingly shaped by artificial structures and unseen systems.
Dimensions: 6 x 4 x 1 Media: watercolor monotype on Arches 300 gsm watercolor paper Artist Statement : My work is rooted in abstraction and shaped by a commitment to doubt, disruption, and discovery. Printmaking is central to my practice—its reversals, repetitions, and unpredictable outcomes mirror the nonlinear way I think and make. I grew up in the American South, where contradiction shaped the landscape— soft beauty entangled with violence and unresolved histories. That tension enters the work through rupture, layering, and the slow logic of accumulation. I deliberately create problems in the studio to stay in a state of not knowing. Failure isn’t something to fix but a generative opening. Moving between painting and printmaking unsettles my habits and opens up new visual possibilities. I want my work to hold the residue of place, process, and change—to be evidence of thinking made physical, falling apart, and becoming.
Dimensions: 9 x 12 Media: Multiblock Color Woodcut Artist Statement : the shapes, colors and textures of the crab were both motivating and challenging in conceiving this multi block color image.
Dimensions: 29 x 21 Media: hand-pulled screen print using ultra-violet-cured inks. Artist Statement : I have always made extensive use of text in my multi-layered screen prints. I have used words and letters like pieces in a game often scrambling or otherwise jumbling them in order to create some confusion and to initiate a re-thinking of what the words might actually be saying. For this print, START TO STOP, it is initially unclear what we could be starting to stop and my hope is that each viewer will reflect on the things that they might be in need of ceasing. This level of interpretability is, I believe, a reflection of the ways in which we are fed information by those in a position of authority and power. Information is often jumbled, fragmented politically biased and therefore open to individual interpretation/misinterpretation.
Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1 Media: Woodblock print Artist Statement : I created this piece based off of my love for ocean life, and my love for different textures in the objects we use everyday. The print is based off a traditional sardine can that holds four fish of different emotions ranging from blissfully ignorant and content being surrounded by friends, to displeased by the situation they are put in. This relates to the idea of how we as people are put in situations, and have feelings towards our environments and those who we are surrounded by.
Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1 Media: Linocut Artist Statement : The Fox and the Wolf is a black-and-white linoleum print inspired by a traditional Norwegian folktale. Instead of illustrating the entire narrative, this piece emphasizes symbolic imagery to convey the story’s core moral: cunning triumphs over brute force. The stark contrast of black and white highlights the tale’s clarity and timeless wisdom. This print is part of my exploration of cultural identity, heritage, and personal storytelling, using folktales passed down through my family as a foundation for visual interpretation.
Dimensions: 15 x 13 x 1 Media: Lithograph Artist Statement : The Lives and Traumas of Stuffed Animals is a continuing series of prints and large graphite drawings of Lanie Doll and her friends that represent individuals and their emotional relationships with themselves and others. In recurring distressful situations, people often become like dolls, putting forward a cheerful personae no matter what is happening. The dolls encapsulate the personality of an individual and allows me to explore the inner workings of painful relationships without being immersed in the reality of difficult interactions. Although there is a playful side, the underlining theme is fear, cruelty, isolation, and survival. Though the situations represented are far from real, no stuffed animals were harmed in the making of the work, they capture the aura that surround people who on the outside appear happy while actually experiencing deep sorrow, loneliness, and tension in their daily lives.
Dimensions: 27 x 39 x 0.1 Media: mixed media on paper Artist Statement : This series of artworks focuses on American gun culture and its effects on the nation. They are mixed media art works on paper with linoleum block printing. I have incorporated a variety of finished forms including shadow boxes with assemblage and patterned fabric, altered maps, and prints on a painted background. I chose symbols reminiscent of news media infographics that are often used to make statistics easily digestible in visual form. I use the repetition of the block printing format to comment on the tragic serial repeated pattern of the subject matter. I have limited my palette to those of the United States flag: red, white, and blue, plus black. When viewed through blue and red 3D glasses the compositions take on a whole new dimension. When one eye literally sees blue and another eye sees red the art works come alive in a way unseen without this filter, just like the political filters we experience every day.
Dimensions: 10 x 15 x 0.5 Media: 6-block linocut Artist Statement : I just love living in the midst of such productive farmland! This linocut is created with 6 carved and inked blocks. I had created one with a green John Deere tractor earlier, but farming friends reminded me that the red Farmall tractors are legendary as well!
