GALLERY MULTI•2D

CRATER COLLECTIVE

Bidhata KC is a contemporary artist who lives and practices in Kathmandu, Nepal. She works in numerous mediums, including print, paint, plastic and ritual vessels. Educated at Tribhuvan University in its nascent printmaking program and the painting and sociology departments thereafter, she is committed to Nepal’s cultural history and iconography. With her deep reverence for place, her work demonstrates an empathy for local gender-based violence, sexual rights, environmental pollution and climate change. She has been awarded numerous accolades and grants, including the “Bhadrakumari Ghale Fine Art Award 2020” and “Artist of the Year 2018” by Women with Vision II, 100 Most Influential Women of Nepal. https://bidhatakc.com/

Catharine H. Murray is an author, poet, teacher and writing guide from Portland, Maine, US. Murray earned her BA from Harvard University and completed her MFA in creative writing at University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast Writing program. Murray lectures and leads workshops on healing through writing, listening and trauma-resolution. Her memoir, Now You See the Sky, was selected to launch Akashic books’ Gracie Belle imprint, curated by Ann Hood. Gracie Belle books focus on the topic of loss to provide help and healing for those living with grief. https://catharinehmurray.com/

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Elisabet Alsos Strand explores the universe of paper and printing in the form of woodblock prints and artist’s books in Trondheim, Norway. Her imagery is strongly influenced by the majestic and desolate landscapes of her homeland. Strand holds a MFA from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, and was awarded a PhD in Art from the Matejko Art Academy of Krakow, Poland. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Norway and abroad and received the Kunstklubben Prize for best print at the National Annual Autumn Exhibition in Oslo in 2006. She has been selected for the Main Exhibition at the 2021 International Print Triennial in Cracow. www.elisabet.no

Hashizume Yoshiko 橋爪佳子, known by her artistic persona TEBIDO, received her MFA in printmaking at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2003. She has made Beijing her home since, while conducting collaborations and art and design exchanges between there and Kyoto. TEBIDO finds her expression through design, humor, objects, natural materials, observation in the world around her and her deep knowledge of Chinese folk craft traditions. She has been the back-cover designer for the journal “Think Asia”; publishes writings about folk craft; leads a range of print, design and handcraft workshops; and serves as a translator and interpreter in the art world.

Judy Night (aka Judy Shatkin) is a pianist and composer who returned to her passion after a life-threatening event. Judy played piano in the top jazz bands at New Trier High School and Harvard University (with Joshua Redman), but chose to pursue a medical degree and the practice of Pediatrics. In 2000, diagnosed with breast cancer, Judy began her journey, finally leaving the medical profession in 2009, and in its stead practicing meditation and reintegrating with her passion for creating in the musical sphere. But it was the Crater Collective, an outgrowth of WoodPaperHand’s Solving Studio that led her to MIDI/digital composition, and she is thrilled to share her very first such works here in this project.

Karen Helga Maurstig is based in Vassenden, Norway. She studied graphics and fine art at the Willem De Kooning Art Academy Rotterdam, Netherlands, and National College of Art and Design, Oslo, Norway. She was a driving force behind 20 Coastal Stations – an international project and exhibition dedicated to the Japanese woodcut technique, mokuhanga. Maurstig collects frozen moments and tiny treasures, and translates them into graphic expressions. Her portrayals of the smallest parts of nature reflect much larger themes, such as environment, ecology and respect for life. The artist’s tactile longings find their expression through paperfolding and bookmaking. https://www.maurstig.com/

Kiko Denzer I make containers of all kinds: ovens, spoons, bowls, coffins, stools, and sometimes sculpture that only contains a story. I left gallery art a long time ago, in favor of a more traditional approach to art, not as a means of self-expression, but as a normal activity that produces just what we need, from spoons to homes to stories, and by which we come to understand the big story of how the life we make connects us back to the world that makes us. So I submitted what I was working on when I got the invitation. All of life tells the same story, and all of what we make expresses the life that we live, from joy to sadness and, I hope, back again. https://www.handprintpress.com

Melanie Yazzie, as a printmaker, painter and sculptor, draws upon her rich Diné (Navajo) cultural heritage. Her work follows the Diné dictum “walk in beauty” literally, creating beauty and harmony. As an artist, she works to serve as an agent of change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural and political phenomena shaping the contemporary lives of Native peoples in the United States and beyond. Her work incorporates both personal experiences as well as the events and symbols from Diné culture. Yazzie uses her travels around the world to connect with other indigenous peoples. She has exhibited worldwide and her work is held by numerous public and private collections. Her work can be found at the Glenn Green Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. https://www.colorado.edu/artandarthistory/melanie-yazzie

Patty Hudak’s art explores the human mind as it connects and is embodied in nature. Hudak is a graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, US, and has continued her art education at the New York Studio School, the Alternative Arts School, and at the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory in Kawaguchi-ko, Japan. Currently residing in Underhill, Vermont, she is a recipient of Vermont Arts Council's 2018-2019 Creation Grant and Vermont Artists to Watch in 2020. As well as her work in Vermont, Hudak spent 12 years working in China and Japan, which informs not only her materials, but also her personal approach to imagery. https://www.pattyhudak.com/

Pema Dekyi Lama was born in the remote region of Nubri in the Gorkha District, Nepal and graduated from Shree Mangal Dvip Boarding School (SMD) in the Boudha area of Kathmandu. Lama received a full academic scholarship at UWC Red Cross Nordic on the remote western shores of Norway, and is completing her IB diploma there. Prior to studying in Norway, she served SMD by volunteering as the school’s student office manager and as a primary school English teacher. She is an avid photographer and now participates as a photographer for school events. In Pema’s words, “I love photography, which really inspires me to stay connected with nature and to appreciate the kindness of it. It makes me feel alive and keep going on with life. Not only that, but also it made me realise that there is no ugliness or beauty of any object; it just depends on the observer.” https://www.instagram.com/pemaarchive_/

Ralph Kiggell, ARE is a British artist based in Bangkok, who has taught and trained extensively in both China and Japan. He holds a BA in Chinese Studies from SOAS, London University (1983), a diploma in Chinese language from Foreign Languages University, Beijing (1981), and an MA in Printmaking from Tama Arts University, Tokyo (1999). He recently served as vice chair of the International Mokuhanga Conference 2021, Nara, Japan. He expands on his knowledge of traditional woodcut processes and Asian papers to create fine art that melds eastern and western approaches to print, design and craftsmanship. In prints, papercuts, books and murals, his dramatic work – from urban landscapes to plants, cells and organisms – is inspired by the natural world and our taut relationship with it, and informed by curiosity, investigation and travel. https://ralphkiggell.com/

Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is a mathematician with a long-time passion for poetry. Her poems reflect both natural and constructed worlds, often reflecting interactions with family and friends. She has won prizes twice at the Ripon Poetry Festival (2017 and 2018), and her poems have been published in District Lines and in two anthologies of Yorkshire poetry.

Tamera Bedford is a mixed media artist who is noted for her artistic practice and to the nature of her diverse subject matter. Her work turns to visual representation to capture her deep respect for environmental phenomena and beyond to biological life and mental flows of the human brain. Her work spans the micro-elements of these natural networks and systems out to their superstructures built of exquisite flows, lines and patterns. Self-trained, Bedford mixes brilliant palettes of color that mimic the range of combinations and hues she has witnessed in the natural world as well as simulate mind maps of our cognitive experience. https://www.tamerabedford.com