News Release
September 2003
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)— An art exhibit entitled “Contemporary
Printmaking” will be displayed at Moravian College from September
25 to October. The work of artists such as Doug Zucco and Lynn Gano
can be seen in the H. Paty Eiffe Gallery in the Haupert Union Building.
Zucco, director of White Crow Papermill in Fleetwood,
Pa., has taught many studio courses for the Moravian College Art
Department including
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, and Papermaking. He has exhibited his
work throughout the United States and is currently showing his work
in a solo show at Ursinus College. Zucco contributed several portfolios
of prints to Moravian’s exhibition and helped with their production,
including the creation of hand-made paper on which many of these portfolios
are printed. One of the portfolios, Solarplate Revolution Portfolio,
includes 15 prints by 15 printmakers. Each artist used solarplate to
generate a wide range of printed effects using sun and water to process
light-sensitive polymer plates. Zucco also developed the paper for
Clytie Alexander’s fold-out book, Seeing Red, displayed in the
large wall showcase. The provocative images of “Leaves from a
Chinese Album” by John Yau and Max Gimblett were also created
on paper made by Zucco.
Gano is currently a professor at Kutztown University
and formerly taught introductory studio and graphic design at Moravian.
She combines
traditional printmaking media such as aquatint, etching, and drypoint
with modern technology. Gano says of her work, “I am mostly influenced
by the artists and poets of the Italian Medieval and Renaissance periods.
I merge philosophy of the dialectic nature of these periods with that
of contemporary values and media. The art itself is built on symbolism
and perception that comes from an architecture of mathematics which
was embodied in art, literature, and music of the Medieval and Renaissance.
This particular set of prints is inspired by the poems of Dante, Petrarch,
and Michelangelo as well as the stories of Boccaccio and how they are
still contemporary in their meaning.” In addition to her displayed
work, Gano contributed didactic panels to the show which explain the
various processes uses in printmaking.
