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Kendra Lichtenwalner
Currently living and working in a converted 19th c. mill in North Adams, Massachusetts, Kendra Lichtenwalner combines printmaking, painting, and drawing to create pictorial spaces of suspended abandon. Having obtained her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in painting and her MFA in painting and printmaking from University of North Carolina Greensboro, Kendra has long been intrigued by the potential for created abstraction to transport the viewer into the subtle mind-space of the vanishing moment.
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Fittingly, she attributes her inspiration to nature and to the intuitive process she uses to communicate the vivifying chaos hidden in organic forms. For the last twelve 12 years, this process has found its expression through the elaborate acrobatics of large-scale printmaking. Kendra's acute manipulation of eight hydraulic pumps disposing 800 tons of pressure fixes the bedrock of her images, creating a layer that becomes as knowable to the viewer as the city beneath the already ancient city is to the archeologist. From there she revises and elaborates its face, building, tearing down, and rebuilding with exquisite forms and spectral patterns.
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