Join the Center for Premodern Studies on Friday, Oct. 24 for a lecture by printmaker Rebecca Gilbert. A light lunch will be served at this event. Participants are encouraged to RSVP for this event to help plan the catering needs.
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Print by Rebecca Gilbert
Rebecca Gilbert is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work exemplifies a dedication to traditional printmaking processes. Representations of longing, mystery, and communication between the realms of the living and the dead are embedded throughout much of her work.
During her lecture, Gilbert will share prints from two different bodies of work, with a focus on her current project, A Dance of Death in Two Parts. When complete, this ambitious project will consist of 82 individual wood engravings with letterpress printed text. Forty-one of the intimately scaled prints recreate the renowned Dance of Death series by Hans Holbein the Younger, that was published in 1538. The remaining forty-one prints are of Gilbert’s own design; depicting people, technology, and culture from our own time.
Rebecca Gilbert is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work exemplifies a dedication to traditional printmaking processes. Influenced by her years of experience in book arts and rare book conservation, her innovation in executing these processes in combination with cut paper and assemblage, push the boundaries of what a print can be.
Rebecca earned her MFA in Printmaking & Book Arts from The University of the Arts, and her BFA in Printmaking from Marshall University. She has extensive experience teaching printmaking and book arts at numerous institutions of higher education. She is an active member and serves on the board of The Wood Engravers’ Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of wood engraving, its practice, and its history; and she is represented by The Print Center Gallery in Philadelphia.
Rebecca’s prints can be found in numerous public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Gregynog Hall & Library, Zuckerman Museum of Art Archives, St. Bride Foundation, the Free Library of Philadelphia Print and Picture Collection, and Princeton University Library’s Graphic Arts Collection. She maintains an active exhibition record, and has extensively exhibited her work regionally, nationally, and internationally, including in galleries and museums in New York, California, Spain, Canada, Korea, Estonia, France, and England.
Among Rebecca’s most recent awards are an Independence Foundation Grant to support her current project, A Dance of Death in Two Parts; a Victor Hammer Fellowship from Wells College in Aurora, New York; an Illuminate the Arts Grant; a Creative Research and Innovation Grant; and a Winterthur Artist/Maker Fellowship.
To see more of Rebecca Gilbert’s work, visit rebeccaprint.com or follow her on Instagram @rebecca_print
This visit is supported by bohemian press, the UMN student print club; the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, and the Gorman Collection of Rare Art Books, Media, and Artist Archives.
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