An incisive look at artists whose work reveals the changing perceptions of place and space in the era of globalization. Noplaceness features writing examining the work of over 30 artists in historical and critical contexts, including Stephanie Kolpy.

STRATA II:
Manifesting Through the Layers
This second edition of STRATA: Manifesting through the layers takes flight with so many twists and turns. The visual and symbolic layers build upon meaning, texture, variety, and exploration with connective threads of the figure, elements of nature, home, comfort, identity, and psychic undercurrents within a maximalist tapestry reflecting our complex time. The figure is a punctuating note within the striations of the narrative and appears as a disrupted (or an obscured) presence. The surfaces and the chaotic interpretations serve as a mirror to the many convolutions of existence today.
63 Artists used a variety of media this year to interpret STRATA: Manifesting Through the Layers. In this exhibition works were created with: mixed media, graphite, charcoal, watercolor, acrylic, oil, fiber, ceramic, pastel, printmaking, photography,digital art, collage,found objects, industrial mesh,silk, stone, bronze, gouache, ink, porcelain, sandstone, copper, sumie ink, beads, aluminum,encaustic, plaster, cyanotype, drypoint, yarn, thread, keys, buttons, paper,newspaper, cardboard, security envelope, cold wax, tissue paper, papier mache, found metal, wire, wax, cold wax, copper, curly maple, gold leaf, horse hair, elk ribs, and chocolate!

UNC Asheville’s juried international exhibition, Drawing Discourse, will open with a special event on January 13 featuring Juror, Charles Ritchie. The exhibition features 65 works of contemporary drawing selected from 938 submissions by 297 artists in 6 nations.

The Hand Magazine is based in Prairie Village, Kansas and has been in publication since 2013. The Hand is published four times a year in February, May, August, and November. It is owned, published, co-edited, and distributed by Adam Finkelston. James Meara is lead designer and co-editor. The Hand is dedicated to being the world’s premier forum for “alternative” and historic photographic processes and all types of printmaking. We want to encourage inspiration, education, and community for artists using unique, mixed media, experimental, and idiosyncratic “reproduction-based” techniques. We do also print digital art work and art work where the subject matter has been manipulated, directed, or staged by the artist.

The Hand is proud to be a reader supported, ad-free, independent publication. Subscribers have the ability to submit to all of the issues on their subscription for no additional fee. Artists who wish to submit to a single issue can do so on a single-issue subscription. This way, everyone who submits gets a copy of the magazine whether their work is printed or not. We try very hard to run a magazine that we, as artists, would like to be part of. This model allows us to accept and print more art by more artists. This gives the magazine more variety, a broader appeal, and a more open identity. We are not interested in criticism, manifestos, theory, or ideology. The Hand is about helping artists, showing a wide variety of new, exciting work, and building community through our shared love of the arts. We are fiercely independent with no outside sponsors or ties. We run almost no ads, except the rare ad for a like-minded publication, web site, gallery, or event.

The Hand Magazine is here for artists. In addition to publishing four times a year, we also curate or jury exhibitions to show artists work, and maintain a strong social media presence on Facebook and Instagram to promote the work of the artists who contribute to our pages.

ATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO PRINT BIENNIAL MARCH 8 - APRIL 5, 2019 | KAI LIN ART is pleased to announce our second exhibition of 2019:

The Atlanta Print Biennial is an international juried exhibition, open to all artists working in hand-pulled printmaking processes. The exhibit is organized by Atlanta Printmakers Studio and hosted by Kai Lin Art, a contemporary art gallery located in the vibrant Westside District of Midtown Atlanta, GA. This year’s Biennial features 48 artists from around the world and 67 selected artworks.

2022 The Delta National Juried Printmaking Exhibition.
Bradbury Art Museum Juror: Miranda Metcalf—founder and host of Hello,
Print Friend—a contemporary printmaking podcast, Bradbury Art Museum,
Arkansas State University, January 24th –February 20th 2022

The Waiting Room Gallery is hosting its first juried group show Oct. 16 – Nov. 20 in the common spaces at 3258 Larimer Street (2nd and 3rd Floor) in RiNo. Straddling the Line: Between Abstraction and Representation features artists that were chosen from a national open call for submissions that reveal how an artist’s abstract forms may subtly suggest recognizable forms or how ordinary objects can serve as a point of departure for an artist’s abstract vision. The submissions were juried by acclaimed New York artist Brent Birnbaum with Dan Drossman as co-curator. The public is invited to an Opening Reception on Saturday, October 16 from 6-10 pm and a Closing Reception on Saturday, November 20 from 6-10 pm, or view the show Monday-Friday from 9 am-5 pm or by appointment via thewaitingroomdenver@gmail.com.

The works encompass a variety of oil and acrylic paintings with some also incorporating mixed media. Whether on the abstract or representational side of the line, all engage the viewer with their color, composition and other points of visual interest. The artist whose piece is chosen as “Best in Show” will be awarded a solo exhibition at The Waiting Room Gallery in 2022.

Exhibiting artists are Bob Aldrich, Lisa Calzavara, Kristina Davies, Annie Decamp, Rebecca Gabriel, Gayle Gerson, Ronald Gonzalez, Nicholas Gripp, Laura Guese, Craig Hill, Robert Hyatt, Andrea Jacobson, Peggy Jensen, Sandra June, Stephanie Kolpy, Amy Lummus, Mara Manning, Joe McHale, Ann Morgan, Duane Onodera, Lisa Purdy, Morgan Russell, Lauren Dana Smith, Kenneth Susynski, Charlotte Treiber, Kristen Walsh, Christopher Woolley and Jono Wright.

Ever since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 15th century, the power of printmaking to spread political ideas has been a constant. Now that Change.org petitions and Upworthy videos have largely replaced posters and pamphlets, however, printmakers have to wonder whether the medium has lost its influence.

Atlanta artist Stephanie Kolpy organized Pressing Issues: The Political Print, an invitational exhibition of works by 30 local artists, to answer this very question. It consists of screen prints, drawings, paintings and multimedia works that take aim at everything from wage inequality between men and women to ethics practices in slaughtering animals for food. (It is on view at the J Gallery inside of Binders art supply store at Ponce City Market through August 28.)

Atlanta, Georgia, July 2022 – Opening July 16, 2022, eyedrum Gallery will present a juried exhibition Professors of Art: Georgia. The show will include art in a range of media, created by art faculty from Georgia’s institutions of higher education, both public and private. Art department faculty members are often required to continually exhibit their own work to retain their positions and to achieve promotion and tenure. This juried opportunity carried free entry out of respect for the work that art professors do in developing young, artistic minds. One artist from the exhibition will be chosen to receive an Award of Top Honor and will work towards a Solo Exhibition at eyedrum during the following year, 2023. This exhibition is juried by Michael Marling de Cuellar, a recently retired, tenured professor from the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega. This is the inaugural exhibition in a triennial format, which will include this juried group exhibition of professors’ work, a subsequent solo exhibition for one awardee (2023), followed by a juried group exhibition of work by MFA candidates’ Georgia-wide (2024).

The recognizable elements I begin with are almost expected or predictable, but the abstraction of these elements and their atmosphere is unpredictable to even me, never planned. Yet these abstract passages really become the catalyst for emotion, movement and the visual language that is undefinable.

I think for me, abstraction makes the invisible more visible but makes the undefinable through any other language visible as well."
Stephanie E. Kolpy

Mini Packs a Punch; International, KBM Art Gallery ON-LINE exhibition,California, Feb 25th-Mar 25th. 2023

ELEMENTS: Earth, Air, Fire & Water, International Exhibition, By Art Fluent curated and juried by Creative Director, Amy Matteson Neill, March 30th,2022

Top Jurors Award
Artist’s Vision 2022 International Exhibition, Marin Society of Artists: Show Card Cover Image, Juror Jen Tough, January 23rd 2022

2016-17 SUE COE: The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto Ernest G. Welch Small Gallery, Georgia State University. Design,Curation and facilitation of solo printmaking exhibition for 2017 SGC International Conference lifetime achievement awardee, Sue Coe. Co-Curator: Cynthia Farnell, Co-Exhibition Design: Lisa Alembik January 15th to March 18th, 2017. Closing reception March 17th 5-7pm

Stephanie Kolpy Curator:
2019-20 JOSH DORMAN: Higher Ground, solo exhibition and performance.
In GSU Galleries with performance in Koplef recital hall,
Spring 2020. Project Curator in collaboration with The CENCIA Spotlight Grant, The Visiting Artist Series Grant and the WASAD Gallery Proposal Grant, January 11th to March 1st 2020.

The Final Thaw by Stephanie Kolpy is among the award winners in the annual Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, on display through Feb. 20 at Arkansas State University’s Bradbury Art Museum.

2019, The Delta National Juried Printmaking Exhibition.
Bradbury Art Museum Juror: José Diaz, Chief Curator of The Andy Warhol Museum. Don A. Tilton Purchase Award, Permanent Collection
of Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, January 24th –February 20th

Review of Mythos for the Mortal in ArtsATL.com
Exhibition Catalog with Introductory Essay by Jerry Cullum
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Turner Gallery
Atlanta, Georgia, March 2010

Review of Pressing Issues in ArtsATL.com
Exhibition Catalog
Curated by Stephanie Kolpy
The J Gallery
Atlanta, Georgia
Spring 2015

At the beginning of this assignment, just two months ago, eleven printmaking students were paired with seventeen chemistry students. We were told to create a piece of work that was inspired by the concept of “reaction”. From this prompt a multitude of ideas and conversations have occurred, and from these discussions, compositions have come to fruition. The artworks created address issues such as global warming, carcinogens, mental illness, heartbreak, and the evolution of knowledge.

What we’ve created for this project exemplifies the vital importance of collaboration and the sharing of information between separate disciplines. Therefore, it could be argued that if our goal as a society is to create a healthier and happier world for future generations, and ourselves then we must combine aspects of the creative process and the scientific method.
BFA assistant curator and project collaborator, Bailey Seeley

The grandfather of modern art, Joseph Beuys, believed that all beings are creative thinkers and that the education of the artist is the education of the entire being. To dissolve the boundaries between the arts and sciences, is to acknowledge the parallels between the creative process and the scientific method; they both search for solutions and answers to the worlds more difficult questions. Interdisciplinary collaboration has the greatest potential in not only resolving the problems, but in raising awareness to a broader audience of potential participants.
Professor of Art, Exhibition Curator, Stephanie Kolpy

“Apocalypse Now: Review: Paintings and Drawings by Atlantan Stephanie Kolpy at Wm Turner Gallery,” by Catherine Fox, ArtsATL.com. April 9, 2010.