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Artist Exhibitions:
• Donna Beam Gallery, 1997
Juried Student Show - Railroad
I (Charcoal 32x44), Well
Dressed Rat II (Conte 44x32)
• Jesse Metcalf Gallery, 1998
Different Looks III
Invitational Show
• CAC’s Gobbledegook, Gateway
Arts and Music Experience,
1998
• Las Vegas Art Museum, 1998
Fall Art Roundup Juried
Exhibition. Shown December
1998-January 1999...
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Artist Reviews:
Awards with Press coverage:
· Charlevoix Gallery,
NM, Group Show Award
· Las Vegas Art
Museum, 2nd Place for Drawing
Category
· Springfield Art
Museum, Purchase Award
· Brand Library & Art
Center, Patron Award
· Henderson Art Fest
2000, Best of Show in
Printmaking Award
· US Senate
Certificate of Commendation
for donated works
· St. Louis ...
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Collections:
· Springfield Art
Museum, Purchase Award to
permanent collection
· Collection
Springfield Museum of Art,
Missouri
· Collection Portland
Art Museum Gilkey Center
Prints Collection, Portland
Oregon
· Collection Princeton
University Graphic Arts
Library
· Brand Library & Art
Center, Los Angeles, CA,
permanent collection
· Museum of New Art,
Detroit MI, permanent
collection
· Max Kade-Erich...
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Commissions:
Boy Scouts of America, Las
Vegas Chapter, Commissioned
work and Purchase Award on
permanent collection, Las
Vegas Nevada
Girl Scouts of America, Las
Vegas Chapter, Purchase Award
of original Precious Waters on
permanent collection, Las
Vegas Nevada
Nevada Governor’s Arts Awards
Visual Arts Commission 2005
Publications:
· InPrint, Volume
11-...
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Artist Statement for Maria Arango
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"Heart, humor and humility lightens up a heavy load." (Joni Mitchell) A sound approach to art, especially printmaking.
I am currently dedicated to making drawings, woodcut and wood engraving prints. In one of the latest series of woodcut prints I try to let the wood, ink, and paper speak their own voice and add their own imprint to the resulting work; many images are inspired by the grain of the wood itself. I strive to show the public the difference between reproductions and original prints, by giving each original print tactile and visual qualities not possible with a reproductive method, but only with the precise printmaking method that created the work. The process must show in every print.
As far as my imagery, I work in series, exploring and squeezing particular imagery until I am satisfied and allow myself to move on. Figurative work interests me as much as the desert and all its fruitful offerings, the two being principal subjects in my current work. The rat series also lives on, representing all I have learned (and would like to forget) about the rat race and all its players. I strive to reward the viewer, to impress the critic, to delight the collector, to always honor the master, and to capture the attention, if only for a moment, of the artist that lies within all.
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