Monotype Guild of New England:
40 Years of Unique Prints
Sixth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition at The Art Complex Museum
Juror: Karen Kunc | Curator: Craig Bloodgood
MGNE National Exhibition Committee Chairs: Carol MacDonald, Carolyn Letvin, Ila Cox
On View: May 4–August 31, 2025
Summer Hours: Wed–Sun 12-5pm, Thurs 12-8pm
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Submission to exhibit work open to all artists working in the monotype and monoprint medium. Membership not required.
EXHIBITION CALENDAR FOR ARTISTS:
• Entry Deadline: Sunday, January 19, 2025
• Accepted Artist Notification: Sunday, February 16, 2025
• Hand Delivery of Work: April 19-20, 2025 during museum hours (Wed-Sun, 1-4pm)
• Shipped Work Delivery Dates: Must arrive between April 11-18, 2025
• Exhibition Opens: Sunday, May 4, 2025
• Exhibition Closes: Sunday, August 31, 2025
• Pick-Up Dates: Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 9am-4pm or by appointment
• Shipped Work Returned: September 10-12, 2025
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Photos: Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Unique Prints. Sixth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition at the Art Complex Museum, 2025. Photographer: R. Leopoldina Torres. Catalog Cover: Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Print Exhibition Catalog designed by Carolyn Letvin. © 2025 Monotype Guild of New England.
Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Unique Prints
Sixth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition
May 4 – August 31, 2025
The Art Complex Museum
189 Alden Street, Duxbury, MA
On View | Extended Summer Hours:
Wed – Sun: 12-5pm, Thurs: 12-8pm
For four decades, the Monotype Guild of New England has championed the art of the monotype and monoprint, fostering a vibrant community of printmakers dedicated to the expressive potential of one-of-a-kind prints. MGNE celebrates this milestone with Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Unique Prints, a national juried exhibition showcasing the breadth and innovation of contemporary printmaking.
Internationally acclaimed printmaker Karen Kunc’s expertise and artistic vision make her uniquely qualified as juror for this exhibition. She selected the prints in the exhibition from 645 works submitted by 238 artists. “Monotypes and monoprints are remarkable forms of printmaking, allowing artists to embrace spontaneity and creativity,” said Kunc. “It’s an honor to jury this milestone exhibition and to celebrate the incredible talent and innovation of this artistic community.”
Featuring works from 73 artists across the United States, this exhibition highlights the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of monotype—a process that embraces spontaneity, experimentation, and individuality. Unlike traditional printmaking techniques that produce multiples, monotypes and monoprints yield singular impressions, making each print a distinctive exploration of form, texture, and color. This exhibition exemplifies how traditional printmaking techniques can be reimagined in a contemporary context.
“This exhibition commemorates the Monotype Guild of New England’s rich history and celebrates the enduring vitality of the monotype and monoprint medium. Through an array of approaches—from painterly and gestural to highly detailed and layered—these prints reflect the unique visions of artists who continue to push the boundaries of this versatile and compelling art form. Join us in celebrating forty years of MGNE, where tradition meets innovation, and every print tells a story of creative discovery.”
– Rebecca Leopoldina Torres, President of MGNE
CLICK HERE TO VIEW ONLINE GALLERY OF SELECTED WORKS FOR EXHIBITION.
Curated by Craig Bloodgood, Contemporary Curator at the Art Complex Museum. Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Unique Prints is made possible through the generosity of the Art Complex Museum and its staff. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Mass Cultural Council, Rebecca Leopoldina Torres and Family, Frame Center, Goss Photo, New Impressions Print Studio, Speedball Ink, Takach Press and Blick Art Materials.
JUROR: KAREN KUNC is Cather Professor Emerita of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she taught from 1983-2020. Her many accolades include Fulbright Scholar Awards to Finland and Bangladesh, two NEA/MAAA awards, and the 2007 Southern Graphics Council International Printmaker Emeritus Award. Her works have been shown in abundant exhibitions nationally and internationally and her prints and artist’s books are in numerous public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the Library of Congress. She has taught workshops around the world and she has lectured as a visiting artist at over 200 institutions. She is the owner/director of Constellation Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska, designed as a multifaceted creative work site and hub for print, paper, and book arts. Learn more about Karen Kunc here.
ABOUT THE ART COMPLEX MUSEUM:
The Art Complex Museum is located in the historic town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 33 miles south of Boston. It houses the art collection of the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser family. The museum offers exhibits throughout the year, featuring the work of contemporary artists and thematic shows from the museum’s permanent collection. Additional programming includes talks, concerts, educational programming, and Japanese tea ceremonies. Visitors are encouraged to visit artcomplex.org for a current schedule of exhibits.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Debra Arter, Maggy Aston, Amanda Bittner, Clara Bohrer, Kathy Brenner, Marianne Calenda, Kevin Calisto, Sandra Cardillo, Alice Carpenter, Judith Heller Cassell, Cindy Chandler-Guy, Lindsey Clark-Ryan, Jewelya Coffey, Rosemary Depler Cohen, Allison Conley, Willa Cox, Nancy Shaw Cramer, Ross Dener, Joanne F. Desmond, Sally Dion, Soosen Dunholter, Victoria Elbroch, Sally Frank, Cara Gonier, Betsy Gould, Rachael Griffin, Larry Guilmette, Stina Hals, Marc R. Hanson, Lonnie Harvey, Joan Hausrath, Susan Leone Howe, Constance Jacobson, Catherine Kernan, Lauren Kinghorn, Leslie Kramer, Elisa Lanzi, Cooper Lazzell, Yuqi Liu, Sasja Lucas, Carol MacDonald, Arch MacInnes, Robert Maloney, Lynn Manos, Katherine McDowell, Timothy McDowell, Mary Mead, Larinda Meade, Bonnie Mineo, Alice Nicholson-Galick, Iris Osterman, Tracy Otten, Diane Phares, Mary Arthur Pollak, Scott A. Reeds, Julianne B. Ricksecker, Alyssa Laurel Ringler, May Roded, Edo Rosenblith, Nick Satinover, Judith Schneider, Caroline Sheridan Loose, Joanne Simon, Sarah Smelser, Robynn Smith, Sok Song, Lisa Steffens, Diane Tomash, Nanette Wallace, Andrea Warner, Janine Wong, Jeffrey Woodbury, Kathleen Wynn.
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AWARD WINNERS
FIRST PLACE: Lindsey Clark-Ryan (Westhampton, Massachusetts)
Fold The World in Half at Your Eye, 2024. Monotype.
Fold The World in Half at Your Eye starts at the horizon to explore the relationship between printmaking, paper, and how we perceive space. Lindsey Clark-Ryan made these prints in Buenos Aires. She drew contours implying river deltas or geographical borders—a point of view that is simultaneously looking up, down, and across.
SECOND PLACE: Alyssa Laurel Ringler (Stowe, Vermont)
City Forest, 2021. Monoprint.
City Forest reflects two key themes from Alyssa Ringler’s pandemic experience: the city and the forest, representing my transition from New York City to Vermont, merging towering skyscrapers with majestic trees. This installation interacts with the airflow of passersby, serving as a tribute to the duality of danger and safety in the air we breathed during the pandemic.
THIRD PLACE: Nanette Wallace (Milwaukie, Oregon)
Red, 2024. Monotype.
Nanette Wallace’s gestural artwork is created as an emotional response to the world around her, with an especially deep connection to water, nature, and the play of light. She uses crude tools including Q-Tip’s, her fingertips wrapped in cloth, and brayers to add and remove ink from a plexiglass plate. She approaches her work with an emphasis on experimentation and intuition, allowing the spontaneous nature of the monotype, to guide her.
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD (IN HONOR OF R. LEOPOLDINA TORRES):
Sok Song (New Haven, Connecticut)
Korean or American?, 2023. Monoprint.
Through folding, printmaking, and layered imagery, Sok Song’s work explores identity, migration, and memory. Drawing from Korean traditions and personal history, Song uses pressure and graphite transfer to reveal hidden narratives embedded in textiles, paper, and gestures.
MATERIALS AWARDS
BLICK ART SUPPLIES AWARDS:
Kevin Calisto (Bristol, Rhode Island)
Furrow, 2022. Monotype.
Furrow captures the quiet tension between darkness and light, evoking a sense of vastness and solitude. The subtle horizon invites reflection on transition, memory, and the unknown. It is both a void and a beginning—a moment suspended in stillness, where even the faintest light becomes a presence.
Ross Dener (Belfast, Maine)
The Connecticut Monkey Incident, 2024. Monotype.
Pandemics, mass shootings, and climate change are occurring with increasing intensity and frequency. Ross Dener explores how once-commonplace middle-class comforts are now less obtainable due to increasing economic and geopolitical precarity. Via open and irregular composition, Dener exposes our contemporary crises which force a changing view of our comforts.
NEW IMPRESSIONS PRINT STUDIO AWARD:
Elisa Lanzi (Belchertown, Massachusetts)
Note on the Afterlife, 2021. Artist Book, Monotypes.
Note on the Afterlife is part of Elisa Lanzi’s Immortality series that explores women aging in the 21st-century. With Proserpina as a guide, Lanzi embraces her own in-between-ness as an artist and writer moving towards the unknown. This artist book serves as a memory container similar to reliquaries and canopic jars that store the viscera of our lives in the hereafter.
SPEEDBALL INK AWARD:
Lynn Manos (Tampa, Florida)
Venice, Venice #105, 2024. Monotype.
Lynn Manos finds the narrow line between the recognition of an image and its dissolution into elements of form and color visually exciting. This image is inspired by a water reflection in Burano, Italy. Venice, Venice #105 explores color, light and movement on water by layering Charbonnel etching inks on Rives BFK printmaking paper.
TAKACH PRESS AWARD:
Yuqi Liu (Providence, Rhode Island)
The Web 02, 2024. Monoprint.
This walnut ink print on handmade paper echoes the intricate networks of mycelium, symbolizing collaboration and mutual support in nature. Each mark reflects the hidden pathways that sustain ecosystems, emphasizing interdependence and connection. The Web 02 invites viewers to reflect on their place within the web of life and the delicate balance that holds it together.
HONORABLE MENTIONS (In Alphabetical Order)
Victoria Elbroch (Kittery, Maine)
Subterranean Series #4, 2024. Monoprint.
Subterranean Series #4 is a window into the subterranean world beneath the forest floor. Through her work, Victoria Elbroch hopes to draw the viewers’ attention with color and inspire curiosity about the extraordinary life-giving layers of biodiversity beneath the natural world. This series of mixed media monoprints starts with a photopolymer print and then layers cut and waxed monotypes and collage.
Rachael Griffin (Madison, Wisconsin)
Ruby Laurel, 2024. Monotype.
Rachael Griffin is a printmaker and painter who uses food as a vehicle to examine human behavior and desire. Her work is deeply rooted in her interest in pleasure, excess, and the complexities of human nature. Most recently she has been exploring the idea of slowing down and the totality of a moment in time.
Catherine Kernan (Somerville, Massachusetts)
Echo Location #25, 2023. Monoprint.
Like human memory, printmaking is dynamic and involves cycles of repetition and variation. Using combinations of large woodblocks as transfer tools, Catherine Kernan builds images in unorthodox ways. She lays down ink, removes ink with blocks and often incorporates viscosity interactions of the inks. Interruption and interference with the “perfect transfer” are integral to the process.
Robert Maloney (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)
Building Complex Gold, 2024. Monoprint.
Robert Maloney’s large-scale woodcut prints incorporate the many layers of the urban landscape. Building Complex Gold reveals the residual traces of objects, individuals or places by showing the scaffolding, framework or footprint of what was. Decades of imagery and information accumulate and deteriorate at various stages of recognition, representing the passage of time and the memories of a location or structure.
Timothy McDowell (New London, Connecticut)
Life Support, 2024. Monoprint.
Timothy McDowell process is an intuitive approach to printmaking, involving a visual dialogue with the image as it progresses. There is rarely a set course for completion of the image, only an open concept of subject matter addressing contemporary issues or environmental concerns using multiple processes that produce unique, singular prints.
Judith Schneider (Norway, Maine)
Round the Pond Triptych, 2024. Monoprints.
Experimenting with scale, color, value and texture, Judith Schneider is in pursuit of what is physically present, woven with memory, dreams and how the energy of “place” is conveyed. In her prints, she investigates place and memory through the landscape. Shneider’s work is about mapping my surroundings, visually exploring its topography, understanding its history. She is interested in the physical properties of a site and how they interface with the thoughts and feelings she has when she is there.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SIXTH NATIONAL EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS!
Image: Juror and award winners from Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Unique Prints at the Art Complex Museum for opening reception on May 11, 2025. From left to right: Kevin Calisto, Alyssa Laurel Ringler, Eliza Lanzi, Victoria Elbroch, Robert Maloney, Karen Kunc, Timothy McDowell, Yuqi Liu, Catherine Kernan, Lindsey Clark-Ryan, and Judith Schneider. Photo: R. Leopoldina Torres.
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EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING CALENDAR
Join us at the Art Complex Museum and online this summer as we celebrate the 4oth anniversary of the Guild with a roboust selection of events and programs! For more information about workshops, visit artcomplex.org.
May 2025:
• Exhibition Opens: Sunday, May 4, 2025
• Juror Talk with Karen Kunc: Sat, May 10 at 2pm
• Artists’ Reception: Sunday, May 11, 1-4pm
June 2025:
• Galley Talk with Rebecca Torres: Sat, June 7 at 2pm
• Midsommar Arts Festival 2025: Sat, June 21, 12-5pm
• Japanese Tea Ceremony: Sun, June 28 at 2pm
• Virtual MGNE Annual Meeting with Guest Speakers Elizabeth Rudy & Abby Schleicher (Harvard Art Museums): Mon, June 30 at 7pm
July 2025:
• Collagraph Workshop with Leslie Kramer: Sat, July 12
• Virtual Talk with Juror Karen Kunc & Award Winning Artists: Thurs, July 17 at 7pm
• Watercolor Workshop with Mary Mead: Sat, July 19, 10am-4pm
• Artist Talk with Sarah Smelser: Sat, July 26
• Trace Monototype Workshop with Sarah Smelser: July 26-27
• Japanese Tea Ceremony: Sun, July 27 at 2pm
August 2025
• Gelli Printing Workshop with Barbara Ford Doyle: August 2-3
• Monotype Workshop with May Roded: Sat, August 9, 10am-4pm
• Artist Talk with May Roded: Sun, August 10 at 2pm
• Summer Artist Meet-Up & Print Exchange: TBD
• Exhibition Closes: Sunday, August 31, 2025
