In Plane Sight: Recent Monoprints by Harold Lohner

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In Plane Sight: Recent Monoprints by Harold Lohner

This exhibition came together when Harold contacted the GI Coordinator following the Verified By Proof conference in April. Want to see your work featured, too? We’d love to have you! Please submit a proposal via the link at the bottom of the site.

Statement: Drawing from found images, my prints explore masculine identity and male relationships with references from Classical to Pop Art. Printmaking provides me a way to take apart images, to recombine and reassemble them. I draw bold images in ink using a subtractive technique, then transfer them to paper or fabric. I build my monoprints one color at a time, creating complex layers that both veil and reveal my subjects. I use color and pattern to camouflage and to call attention, taking a cue from animals, birds, and flowers. In this way, male pride gives way to male beauty and male strength becomes vulnerability.

Bio: Harold Lohner is an artist, type designer, and professor emeritus. After 33
years of teaching printmaking and more at Russell Sage College in Upstate New York, he has devoted himself to creating his own work at his home studio. Harold has exhibited his monoprints and artist’s books nationally and regionally, including the recent solo shows “Forbidden Colors” at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum and “Prints of Men” at Five15Arts@Chartreuse in Phoenix, and “Making Faces” with Wade Carter at the Eric Fischl Gallery at Phoenix College. He has an MFA in printmaking from the University at Albany.