CURT CARPENTER | WOODBLOCK PRINTS
BIOGRAPHY Born in Madison, Wisconsin, 1951 Lives in Aspen, Colorado since 1979 EDUCATION BS in Studio Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973 MA in Printmaking, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978 HONORS Aspen Cultural Vibrancy Fellowship, 2023 Juror's Choice Award, Arvada Center for the Arts, "528.0," April, 2020 Aspen Art Museum Fellowship, 2020 Aspen Art Museum Press Play, "How does a Robert Armstrong sculpture relate to the 1950s design process of the Interstate Highway Sign System," 2019 EXHIBITIONS 2024 Arvada Center Galleries, "528.0 Regional Juried Printmaking Exhibition," Arvada, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "4 Rivers Biennial," Aspen, CO Lincoln Center Galleries, "Under Pressure: 2024 National Juried Printmaking Exhibition," Fort Collins, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Past, Present & Future," Aspen, CO 2023 Residences at the Little Nell, 25 commissioned prints, Aspen, CO The Art Base, "10 x 10," Basalt, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks, Snowmass Village, CO 2022 Residences at the Little Nell, 26 commissioned prints, Aspen, CO Spark Gallery, "Reverse Image," Denver, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks, Snowmass Village, CO 2021 Aspen City Hall, "Grand Opening Exhibition," Aspen, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO Colorado Mountain College, "Pathfinders," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks, Snowmass Village, CO 2020 Museum of Art Fort Collins, "Rocky Mountain Biennial," Fort Collins, CO Arvada Center for the Arts, "528.0," Arvada, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Independence Pass," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks Store, Snowmass Village, CO 2019 Red Brick Center for the Arts, "Bauhaus in Aspen," Aspen, CO Red Brick Center for the Arts, "Landscapes," Aspen, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Flowers," Aspen, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks Store, Snowmass Village, CO 2018 Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks Store, Snowmass Village, CO 2017 The Art Base, "Woodcuts of the Roaring Fork River," Solo exhibition, Basalt, CO Red Brick Center for the Arts, "Over the Horizon," Aspen, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Something Other," Aspen, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks Store, Snowmass Village, CO 2016 Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO Anderson Ranch Artworks Store, Snowmass Village, CO 2015 Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Fresh Air," Aspen, CO Aspen Chapel Gallery, "Small Wonders," Aspen, CO 1993 Mill Street Gallery, "The 10th Mountain Huts," Solo exhibition, Aspen, CO 1992 Colorado Ski Museum, "The 10th Mountain Huts," Solo exhibition, Vail, CO 1985 Patricia Moore Gallery, "Rocks of the Roaring Fork," Solo exhibition, Aspen, CO REPRESENTATION Curt is represented by the Artworks Store at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado. PRESS 1 • May, 2020 Appreciating The Surrounding 'Landscapes' At New Red Brick Exhibition Aspen Public Radio. Christin Kay • January 15, 2019 Local printmaker Captures Roaring Fork River Scenes in Woodcuts. Aspen Public Radio. Claire Woodcock • September 10, 2017 Curt Carpenter Art Talk. The Art Base, Basalt, Colorado•October 12, 2017 ARTIST'S STATEMENT "With the powerful simplicity, the rough naïveté, and the often angular awkwardness that the technique brings with it, there's also a peculiar mixture of roughness and tenderness, of energy and dreaminess, that has nowhere found clearer expression than in the production of the woodcut." —MAX OSBORN Der Holzschnitt (The Woodcut) Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klasing. 1903 Woodcut is a very restrictive art form and I find real freedom in the lack of choices. The characteristics of my woodcuts are simple, blocky, kind of primitive shapes, printed in two colors. The lack of color keeps the images more abstract, less literal, less illustrative, maybe more formal. The technique of woodcut is more like sculpture than painting. It’s reductive, not additive. Instead of adding paint to a white canvas, the printmaker starts with a black block and cuts away the wood to reveal the image. Straight lines and simple shapes are easiest to cut. The image is cut in reverse, the mirror image of the final woodcut. I print on a hand press using Japanese rice paper in additions of 25 to 50 prints. —CURT CARPENTER March 2024 | Aspen, Colorado

Sizes listed are the image size. Paper size is 2" larger on all sides.

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