"AWAKE! Printmaking in Action"
Mother Nature Holds Her Breath by Maryjane Viano Crowe MFA 81 PH travels to an exhibition at the Ann Arbor Art Center in Michigan.
The juried exhibit, AWAKE! Printmaking in Action, will be on view from April 14–May 28, 2023. Previously the book was in exhibits at the San Francisco Center for Book Arts, and in Georgia at the Decatur Arts Alliance in The Book as Art. Mj says, "It’s traveled more than I have!"
Artist Statement
Mother Nature Holds Her Breath, an accordion book, recto/verso, measuring 7’ long when fully extended, displays diametrically opposed environmental visions. By offset printing and registering polychromed paper stencils to create a unique recto-verso bookwork, lush flora and fauna on one side is on full display. Ominously, that fecundity is overwhelmed on the opposing side by the environmental wasteland that industrialization with its exploitation of the environment has created. From spewing smokestacks to clear-cut forests the devastating impact on the environment is the focus this work addresses. And yet, Mother Earth, while waiting to see when we will act to heal her wounds, continues to provide us with her bounty.
