The Handwerker is pleased to host an artist talk by Julianne Hunter Wednesday, November 13th at 5:30pm in conjunction with her exhibition: WHERE THINGS GROW Now on view in the Gallery, up through December 9th, 2024.
Julianne Hunteremploys a material-focused practice is concerned with bringing out the innate properties of her media in ways that simultaneously elevate and ground the work in natural, collective, and emotional planes. Hunter (b.1986) is an artist and educator, working primarily in printmaking, sculpture and papermaking. Hunter’s work investigates themes of memory, growth, decay and personal and shared histories using meaningful materials, sculptural works with paper and her own photographs. She currently teaches at both Cornell University and Ithaca College, serves as president of the Ink Shop Community Print Center and is a co-founder of Show Pony Studio, in Ithaca, NY. Hunter has held artist residencies at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia, Penland, and Zea Mays’ Printmaking. She has shown nationally and internationally at Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (Brooklyn, NY), Manhattan Graphics Center, Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Ann Street Gallery (Newburgh, NY), Limner Gallery (Hudson, NY), Saratoga Arts Center, Del Mar College (Texas), Hatton Gallery (Colorado State University), and Galerie de la Ferme du Mousseau in France, among others. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and prizes, including the Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence at Cornell, Cornell Council for the Arts Grant, Sojourner Truth Diversity Fellowship and Creative Research Projects Awards (SUNY New Paltz).
