Karen Kunc
"There is an admirable consistency of technique and appearance throughout Kunc’s oeuvre of colour woodcuts. For over 25 years she has remained dedicated to her process, through scores of editions, the circumspect evolution of imagery and capricious print world fashion. She has cleverly avoided inertia and repetition, and has developed a technical fluency to match her imagination. Now she begins to approach true mastery of her medium. It is exciting to see."
David Acton, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Worcester Art Museum, MA.
Photograph by David Dale
Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibition
ArtStart
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
August 18 - October 29,2022
The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now: A Centennial Celebration of Block Prints in Wichita, Kansas 1922-2022
February 26 - August 7, 2022
16th International Print Triennale Graphica Creativa 2022
Untold Artists' Stories
Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
September 17, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Upcoming Presentations:
Workshops at Constellation Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska:
Color Woodcut Printmaking
June 20 - 24, 2022
Mokuhanga Printmaking - Japanese water-color blockprinting
August 5-6-7, 2022
Announcements:
• Follow developments for Constellation Studios at:
• New video interview as part of Teacher Resource Project:
http://www.nebraskaartists.org/movies/video12_2_1_b_Kunc.html
http://www.nebraskaartists.org/movies/video12_2_1_c_Kunc.html
• Listen to Lincoln Calling Interview on UTube. July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Gn6NDgiYs&list=PLNw9UOhz8c0NVj7EYjbpcQCIK38mjdXA9&index=4
• Zoom presentation & Q&A, Soeffker Gallery, Hamline University, 2021
Video is on the gallery home page
https://www.soeffkergallery.com/
• Zoom presentation & Q&A, California Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA, 2021
https://www.3cmediasolutions.org/privid/334833?key=29c6e0cc890c39422dc134104c0aed290ef98946
• Interview with Karen Kunc, University of Nis, Serbia, Student online organization, August 20, 2020, https://www.facebook.com/155287937953802/posts/1756970554452191/?app=fbl
• Mary Jane Bruce, UNL Nebraska Today, Faculty 101 Podcast, September 7, 2018
• Presentation, online webinar, Make One, Take One: Exchange Portfolios, on Fragment Encounters, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY, 2021
http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/exhibitions/make-one-take-one/
• Artist’s Books Unshelved, from the Cynthia Sears Artist’s Books Collection, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. 2021
“As the World Turns”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1RzrJ3gBo&list=PLHwzS6Uhxef6LYVrKCrZ9FYriOI8fixYU&index=1
• Lincoln Journal Star L Magazine. Constellation Studios: Karen Kunc’s ‘Release/Reveal’, October 23, 2021
