VISUAL ARTS

Event Details

Alynn Guerra

January 8 - April 1

Description

Printmaker Alynn Guerra will be the third of a planned series of small exhibitions showcasing the work of local artists to be featured on Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus.

Guerra's first contact with printmaking was on the streets of Mexico City where 'Her Soul' is constantly portrayed in handmade posters glued on any surface available. Her favorite of these images were the ones created by ìel movimientoî, or the grass roots movement; she loved the bold expressive lines of their relief prints and the aggressiveness that spoke of social injustice. Later she learned about the close relationship between printmaking and social movements around the world, which has helped to shape her own artistic language. She creates art to help her understand and assimilate her everyday life tribulations. In her work you will find a broad range of themes: first creating the plate and giving it form with her hands, then inking and discovering the shape of the carved plate, and lastly pulling prints from the press. When she is finished with printing, the works are hung to dry: pinned in rows as if they were devoted militants ready to communicate her own messages.