ART WERGER
ART WERGER
Born 1955, Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA
Lives and works in Athens, Ohio, USA
“My work explores themes of time/space and the nature of representation as a shared experience. I create images that thrust the viewer into an active relationship with an otherwise static picture. My subjects are observed from an oblique aerial angle or from an objective distance, placing the viewer in the position of the omniscient narrator. Within this framework, themes of personal interaction and the relationship of people with their environment are explored. I work primarily in the media of etching and mezzotint enjoying the process that permanently fixes these images into a metal surface.”
Biography
1978 BA, Fine Arts-Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
1982 MA, Fine Arts-Graphics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
1982-1988 Fine Arts Division Chair & Professor of Art, Wesleyan College, Macon, USA
2000-2007
2010-2014 Assistant Director of Foundations, Professor of Art, Ohio University, USA
2008-2010
2014- Professor of Art, Ohio University, Athens, USA
2015-2016 Visiting Artist Lectures, University of Wisconsin; Syracuse University; Wesleyan College; Oklahoma Arts Institute; Georgia State University, USA
2015-2017 Mezzotint Workshops, University of Texas; Bowling Green State University; Between Rocking and Rolling, Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain; Wesleyan College; Kennesaw State University, Atlanta; Atlanta Printmakers Studio; Georgia State University; SCAD, Atlanta; One Plus One Equals Infinity, Color Printing Demo, SGC International Conference, Knoxville, USA.
Awards/selected
2019 Purchased Award, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, USA; Honorable Mention, Contemporary Print Flatbed Press, Austin, USA
2018 Nagy Imre Prize, 5th Graphic Art Biennial of Szekerland, Transylvania, Romania; Merchandise Award, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, USA
2017 Center for Graphic Art and Visual Researches Award, 3rd International Printmaking Triennial, Belgrade, Serbia; Award, Athens Voices Exhibition, Dairy Barn, Athens, USA
2016 J. Browman Ellenstein Purchase Award and F. Eichel Memorial Purchase Award, 58th Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, USA
2015 Grand Prix, 3rd IMF, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Guanlan, International Print Biennial, China; Cash Award, Athens Voices Exhibition, Dairy Barn, Athens, USA
Solo/ Two Persons Exhibitions/selected/
Centre for Graphic Art and Visual Researches, Belgrade, Serbia; Brookhaven College, Dallas, USA /2020/; Ebb and Flow, Weldon Gallery, Sag Harbor, USA; Mezzotint Retrospective, Ekaterinburg Museum of Art, Russia /2019/; Ebb and Flow, Ohio University, USA /2018/; Visual Art Center, Dayton; Ekaterinburg Museum of Art, Russia; Hostetler Gallery, Nantucket; Slugfest Gallery, Austin, USA; White Spec Gallery, Atlanta; Tidal Shift, Sherman Smith Family Gallery, Tulsa; Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, USA /2017/
Artist in Residence Ohio Art’s Council Artist Exchange, Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany; Cleveland, Ohio, USA /2019/; Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, China /2013/; Franz Masareel Centrum, Katerlee, Belgium /2008/.
Collections National galleries, museums and private collections in the USA and Europe.
www.artwerger.com