Join us at the IS Projects gallery from 2pm-4pm during Small Press Fair ‘19 for a preview of Extra Pulp and an artist talk with exhibiting artist, Lisa Haque at 2:30pm.
In an effort to expand and explore the relevance of paper in contemporary art, IS Projects has organized, Extra Pulp, an exchange portfolio featuring works that utilize paper as its own form of expression between 20 artists specializing in handmade paper. Extra Pulp not only underscores the impact paper has on contemporary fine art printmaking, but zeroes in on a diverse group of practicing east coast papermakers from New York, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Ohio, North Carolina, Mississippi and Florida. These artists are working experimentally within paper (i.e. painting with pulp, watermarks, inclusions and/or treating paper as an object) whether recreating sacred spaces through ritualistic, hand-cut patterns, or using the surface treatment of pulp as a means to investigate emotional damage and repair to the body. While traditional methods of printmaking are welcome and will be present, they are secondary to the handmade paper component, thus making pulp the primary focus for image creation.
Lisa (Switalski) Haque is an artist living and working in Miami, Florida. She was a Studio Collaborator and the Production Manager at Dieu Donné in Manhattan, where she worked with artists in residence to create new bodies of work in handmade paper. Prior to that, she was a papermaker and bookbinder at Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University, where she collaborated with renowned artists including Kiki Smith and Richard Tuttle to produce editioned artist books and works in handmade paper. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago and has taught papermaking, printing, and book arts for Rutgers University, the University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy, and institutions around the U.S. Her work has been shown at the Hudson Guild Gallery and the International Print Center in New York; Fabriano, Italy, and the Moriki Paper and Ozu Waski/Oji Paper Museum in Tokyo, Japan. Her artists books are housed at the University of Miami, Special Collections, and the Newark Public Library.
For more information on the exhibition, visit isprojectsfl.com/exhibitions