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I am a printmaker, specializing in the creation of linoleum block prints. After each successive printing of a color, the surface of the block is reduced while at the same time the printing surface is built up with multi-layered colors. Born from one block of linoleum, my relief prints have the nuance and rich textural surfaces of an oil painting.

Although Picasso coined this method of working, a "suicide print", I rather think of this printmaking process as emulating the journey of life. While creating my prints, I am never able to re-visit past stages. I can only proceed forward with the acceptance of all good and not so good choices which were mediated and acted upon with the hope and joy of completion.

 

Susan Jaworski-Stranc

 

EDUCATION

Teaching Certificate, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

BA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

SUNY at Buffalo

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

2011

"Boston Printmaker’s North American Biennial Print Show", Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

“NAA Printmakers”, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, Andover, MA

2010

"10 Printmakers”, Sargent Gallery, Newburyport, MA

“Strata”, 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA

“60 Square Inches”, Small Print Biennial, Purdue University Galleries, Indiana

2009

7th International Miniature Print Biennial, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT

2008

“At the Water’s Edge”, Bridge Gallery, Newburyport, MA

2007

“One Block, Many Colors”, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA

“Women Artists at Western Avenue Studios”, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA

2006

“Four Relief Printmakers”, invitational, Zea Mays Printmaking Studio, Florence, MA

2005

"Boston Printmaker’s North American Biennial Print Show", Boston University, Boston, MA

2004

Solo Print Show, Colonnade Gallery, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH

 

OTHER EXHIBITION VENUES

Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

Decordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

Paradise City Art Festivals, Northampton, MA

Worcester Center for Crafts, Worcester, MA

Boston Center for the Arts/Cyclorama, Boston, MA

American Craft Council Exhibitions, Springfield, MA and Charlotte, NC

 

COLLECTIONS

Special Collections Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Cerritos Library, Cerritos, CA

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

UCLA

University of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Federal Reserve Bank, of Boston

University of New Mexico, Zimmerman Library

Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida

University of Alberta, Canada

 

PUBLICATIONS

Magnet Art Program, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

Monograph for Education Department (co-authored)

Garden Greetings, Rockport Press (authored)

The Art of Card Making, Rockport Press (contributor)

Paper House, Rockport Press, (contributor)

Crafter’s Project Book, Quarry Press (contributor)

Stamping Tricks for Scrapbooks, Rockport Press, (contributor)

Handcraft Illustrated

Craftopia.com

 

ARTWORK REPRESENTATION

Carmen's Gallery,Solomon's Island, Maryland,

13Forest Gallery, Arlington, MA,

Flat File Project at Zea Mays Printmaking, Florence, MA,

Vamp & Tramp, LLC, ABAA, Birmingham, Alabama (book sellers)

 
Susan Jaworski-Stranc
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