My printstallation  All She Ever Wanted Was Everything: Laura Berman’s Rock Collection will be included in this upcoming exhibition:

A Survey of Contemporary Prints

Wellington Gray Gallery
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
September 3 –  October 3 2010

Co-Curators:
Bill Fick, Beth Grabowski, Rochelle Toner, R.L. Tillman, Matt Rebholz

in conjunction with:

Print Summit 2010

Exciting events all!

Present Magazine wrote an article featuring me about the wonderful book Kansas City Art Institute at 125: A Book Tribute to Faculty. It’s an honor for me to be part of such an amazing arts organization and community! 
link to article

Printhesizer Letterpress print, edition of 100 signed and numbered. Originally published in Contemporary Impressions: Journal of the American Print Alliance, Spring 2009. Printed at Skylab Letterpress.

A facsimile of this print is featured at this one-night-only exhibition:

COPY JAM!
A Printeresting Curatorial Project

Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
116 North Third Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

One Night Only: Thursday March 25, 2010, 6-9 PM

link to exhibition photos

Curated by Michael Schonhoff

March 2-26
closing reception: March 26, 7-9pm

John A. Day Gallery
Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts
The University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street
Vermillion, SD

– excerpt from the Curator’s statement:

Historically, Kansas City is a turnstile for goods and travelers spanning the Coureur des Bois to SmartPort, with shadows of all sorts still spinning around. In artists’ terms, Kansas City is big enough to offer a diversity of creative approaches, small enough to share critical dialog, and affordable enough to allow for a high level of generativity. Uniquely, a certain quality of grit and fortitude is associated with many cultural producers operating throughout the city. Perhaps that’s growing pains of a Floridian (Richard) paradigm shift, or traits of a long established ‘grassroots’ landscape. Peter von Ziegesar describes the bohemian scene “as a kind of beaten down mulch, from which the younger shoots must gather nourishment.” It all feeds the art.
Black & Blue in no way attempts to totalize an organic and diverse arts community, rather, with an estimated 6,000 artists in the Kansas City region,2 it simply exists as one of many potential exhibitions revealing a diversity of practice, inspirations, and backgrounds, all of which Kansas City has inimitably and historically incubated. Black & Blue employs and illuminates polarities, opposition, multiplicities of meaning, diametricism, and difficult subject matter. Together, the works offer viewers reflexive interpretations and achieves visual resolution by the artists’ use of interior or internal spaces, text, landscape, figuration, and even abstraction or formalism.

All She Ever Wanted Was Everything: Laura Berman’s Rock Collection
hundreds of handcut-intaglio prints, 2007-2009.

Interface

Jan 29, 2010 – Apr 25, 2010
COCA
St. Louis, MO
Curated by Amanda Verbeck of Pele Prints, this exhibition will focus on several regional artists and their collaboration with Pele Prints. Using multiple print processes as a starting point, the collaborations produce experimental works that include three-dimensional components, collage, handwork, and/or various other elements. Artists will show work unique to this collaborative process as well as work from their own singular practice.

Exhibition images (courtesy of Amanda Verbeck)!

Converging Collections:

Imprints Celebrated through the Process of Gathering

collaborative exhibition by Jill Fitterer and Laura Berman

16-20 September, 2009, IMPACT 6 International Printmaking Conference

Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

In the spirit of the IMPACT conference’s 10-year anniversary, we are presenting this exhibition which gathers together in celebration and collaboration a harvest of our unique personal collections. Physically these collections are amassed of animal and mineral matter– but to us the hair and rocks are collections of prints. A rock holds an impression that depicts its own origin, while the DNA imprint held in each strand of hair maps a specific individual.

Printmaking and science are related by iterative practices, and in this context we consider this work to be an interdisciplinary practice. In contrast to the influence of technological advances in the printmaking field, this exhibition directs the viewer to the humble yet equally important origins of print– as a culture of harvesting, recording, examination and recreation.

5-6pm, September 14, 2009 – Art Department, Room CAC 039

Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Pele Prints welcomes Kansas City artist Laura Berman for a one-night preview of new works on paper. Laura combines families of shapes and whimsical color to create fresh images in non-traditional formats. Her latest work embraces the unexpected and celebrates the handmade in print.

Laura Berman  –  Works on Paper

Thursday, August 6 –  5:30-8:30pm

Pele Prints Studio

St. Louis, MO  – link to map

“Chroma/Umbra”

New Work by Laura Berman

July 17th through August 17th

Artist’s Reception on Friday, July 17th | 7pm-10pm

PULP Art/Paper/Gallery

Omaha, NE

EXHIBITION REVIEW– Omaha City Weekly, July 23, 2009.