{"id":2922,"date":"2011-06-28T12:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2011-06-28T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T17:55:53","slug":"jessica-meuninck-ganger-gallery-aop-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/jessica-meuninck-ganger-gallery-aop-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Meuninck-Ganger @ Gallery AOP, Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"

GALLERY AOP
\nwww.galleryaop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nJessica Meuninck-Ganger<\/a>
\nPosition \/ Opposition (detail)\u00c2\u00a0 2011 Artist book installation: drypoint, letterpress, etching & aquatint,
\nlithography and drawing on Thai mulberry paper & muslin\u00c2\u00a0 2,3m high X 1,2m X 10m (open)<\/p>\n

Jessica Meuninck-Ganger
\nPosition \/ Opposition
\n2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 23 July 2011
\nOpening Saturday 2 July at 14:00<\/p>\n

Opening address by Max Yela
\n(Head, Special Collections, UWM Libraries; Adjunct Associate Lecturer, UWM Department of Art & Information;
\nAdjunct Instructor, UWM School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)<\/p>\n

Preview by appointment
\nExhibition catalogue available (on-line version via www.galleryaop.com)<\/p>\n

Walkabout
\nJessica Meuninck-Ganger and Max Yela will conduct a public walkabout before the opening, at 11:00 on Saturday 2 June. All welcome!<\/p>\n

Artist-printmakers
\nA special walkabout\/information session will be held on Sunday 3 July at 14:00 for artist-printmakers<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Position\/Opposition is an installation of over one hundred etchings and drawings assembled in a variety of presentation formats, including: a suite of six hanging print assemblages (45 x 66 cm), a large book (1.2 x 2.3 x 6 m \u00e2\u20ac\u201c open); and one work from an edition of five artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books (maquette versions of the large book). Each work is a compound composition of expressive faces and hands that embody an emotive collaboration between two subjects. All of the prints on paper are participatory in nature and utilize the same subject imagery, but due to the ranging formats and scale, each depicts a unique conversation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Jessica\u00c2\u00a0 Meuninck-Ganger, 2011)<\/p>\n

Jessica Meuninck-Ganger is a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccontext-provider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (rather than a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccontent-provider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, in the words of British artist Peter Dunn) in this installation of prints, folios, and books that combine traditional processes of etching and lithography with new technologies, and incorporate the structural techniques of sculpture and book arts. She says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I compose autobiographical memoirs that unfold like journal pages made for public view. An enthusiast of fine papers, prints and books a subjects, I am interested in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interactions with them as physical forms and conceptual spaces.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Meuninck-Ganger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work involves the creative orchestration of collaborative encounters and conversations well beyond the institution of the gallery. Her artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books are catalysts or surprisingly powerful transformations in the consciousness of their \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreaders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. The conversations they generate become an integral part of the work itself, which is collaboratively achieved.<\/p>\n

Short biography
\nJessica Meuninck-Ganger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prints, artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books and large-scale mixed media works have been exhibited in museums and both experimental and commercial galleries regionally \u00e2\u20ac\u201c near her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin \u00e2\u20ac\u201c nationally in the US and internationally. Her works on paper and her artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books are included in several private and public collections, including the Weisman Museum of Art and the Target Corporation, and in contemporary publications, such as Richard Noyce\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent book, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPrintmaking Beyond the Edge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (collaboration with Nathaniel Stern). She has received residencies and fellowships all over the world, and has instructed printmaking courses and workshops throughout various states in America. Jessica received her MFA in Studio Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2004 and is currently Head of Printmaking at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.<\/p>\n

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