“THREE PRINTMAKERS” EXHIBIT NOW AT FOASOUTH
Featuring the Work of Three Festival of Arts Exhibitors with International Roots
Now Until December 15, 2012
LAGUNA BEACH, CA – This fall, explore the art of Printmaking at foaSOUTH’s newest show “Three Printmakers” featuring Festival of Arts exhibitors Dirk Hagner, Mariko Ishii, and Vinita Voogd. Now on display until December 15, 2012, the exhibit showcases their current work juxtaposed with their prints from the Festival of Arts Permanent Art collection.
Printmaking is the art of transferring impressions, patterns, textures, and shapes from one object onto the surface of another. Represented in the exhibit are a variety of processes, including intaglio, collagraph with chine colle’, woodblock, digital and reductive plate. Each process is typically a complex one, using a variety of different techniques and mediums, depending on the type of print. Artists can create different surface textures, color effects and forms, just as in a painting, producing a unique work of art, defined by the artist’s style and personality.
“I am delighted to be in the show with the other two printmakers from the Festival’s permanent collection,” said Vinita Voogd. “Although we were born and raised in different countries, namely; Japan, Germany and India each one of us spent our adult lives maturing as artists/printmakers here in California. We each have a completely different approach to printmaking even though we’re working in the same medium.”
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
- DIRK HAGNER: A Festival of Arts Exhibitor for ten years, Dirk Hagner was born and educated in Germany where he graduated from Folkwang School of Fine Arts. In the early eighties, he moved to the US where Hagner continued his work as a freelance artist. His artwork has been featured in many exhibits and collections.
- MARIKO ISHII: Mariko Ishii was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan and studied Literature at the Ferris University, Yokohama. After moving to California in the 1980’s, she studied art at Saddleback College and has been a Festival Exhibitor for six years. Her works are in both private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad.
- VINITA VOOGD: Vinita Voogd was born and raised in New Delhi, India, and studied fine art at the College of Art, University of Delhi. With an interest in Printmaking, she studied with John Paul Jones at UCI for three years after moving to California. She has been creating original fine prints since 1982. Voogd’s works are in both private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad and shown extensively throughout in exhibitions including the Laguna Art Museum. She has shown at the Festival of Arts for ten years.
ABOUT FOA SOUTH
Opened as a collaboration between Festival of the Arts and Active Culture, foaSOUTH serves visitors and residents of Laguna Beach by promoting Festival-related exhibitions throughout the year. Located at 1006 S. Coast Highway on the corner of Anita and PCH, the gallery has partnered with Active Culture to provide frozen yogurt and natural foods on the premises at their café. Open from 7:00am – 10:00 pm. The Festival of Arts is a non-profit organization whose proceeds go to support the arts in and about Laguna Beach. For more information, call (949) 494-1145 or go online to www.LagunaFestivalofArts.com.
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