Trudy Wiesenberger

Grey Green Spark

Grey Green Spark

Work Details

Grey Green Spark

2023

Monoprint on paper

22.5 X 30

Inventory ID: # 3770





    About Trudy Wiesenberger

    Printmaking is magical!
    Collage is magical as well!
    I feel most comfortable and gratified when I’m printmaking and creating collages.

    My practice begins by either monoprinting plant material found on my walks, or by cutting stencils. Very often I chine collé (a French term meaning “to paste”) handmade paper, vintage Japanese dressmaker patterns or vintage pages of text to the printmaking paper before running the inked plate through the press. The chine collé insures me of additional color or text. Multiple runs through the printing press add texture, color, and unplanned complexity.

    The 2023 exhibit contains both monoprints and monoprint collages. The collages are cut or torn monoprints combined with ephemera — maps, ticket stubs, old book pages, envelopes or envelope linings, etc.

    The combinations and possibilities for pairings are infinite. The magic happens when disparate images are juxtaposed with other collected images. When the scraps connect and work, you just know it. The fragments speak to each other. The work is complete.
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    Trudy Wiesenberger has been involved in the visual arts all her life: as an artist, advocate, patron, and collections curator.

    She worked as an educator, beginning in 1970, in the Department of Education at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She has served on the boards of the Cleveland Institute of Art, where she founded the Craft Council; the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA); the Print Club of Cleveland and the Contemporary Art Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art; and Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Art Museum. In January 2020 she became a member of the board of trustees of the Heard Museum in Phoenix.

    In 1988 she created the art collection at University Hospitals in Cleveland and served as founding curator until her retirement in 2011. She is the author of the book, Artwork From the Collection of University Hospitals. In 1998 the Cleveland Artist Foundation honored her for her contribution to the visual arts in Cleveland, and in 2010 she was awarded the coveted Cleveland Arts Prize. In 2017 the rotating art gallery at the main campus of University Hospitals was renamed the Trudy Wiesenberger Gallery.

    She also serves as an independent curator.

    Since her retirement from University Hospitals she has focused on her own artwork. She is a printmaker and collage artist and is represented by Gebert Contemporary in Scottsdale, Arizona and the Bonfoey Company in Cleveland, Ohio.

    All Works by Trudy Wiesenberger

    Grey Green Spark

    Grey Green Spark

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3770

    Lime Green Spark

    Lime Green Spark

    2023

    Monprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3769

    Yellow Grey Spark III

    Yellow Grey Spark III

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3778

    Yellow Grey Spark II

    Yellow Grey Spark II

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3780

    Mango Spark

    Mango Spark

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3776

    Lime Spark

    Lime Spark

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3779

    Bauhaus S.W. II

    Bauhaus S.W. II

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3768

    Bauhaus S.W. 1

    Bauhaus S.W. 1

    Monoprint

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3767

    JOY

    JOY

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3772

    Rapberry Spark I

    Rapberry Spark I

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3777

    Raspberry Spark II

    Raspberry Spark II

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3782

    Raspberry Mango Spark

    Raspberry Mango Spark

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3764

    Raspberry Mango Spark I

    Raspberry Mango Spark I

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3763

    Still Life

    Still Life

    2023

    Collage on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3771

    Special Delivery

    Special Delivery

    2023

    Collage on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3774

    Tangerine

    Tangerine

    2023

    Monoprint on paper

    22.5 X 30

    Inventory ID: # 3775

    Post to Tokyo II

    Post to Tokyo II

    2022

    monoprint collage with vintage Japanese envelope

    12.75 X 13 Framed

    Inventory ID: # 3584

    An Arrangement

    An Arrangement

    2022

    monoprint and chine collé on birch panel board

    30 X 22

    Inventory ID: # 3599

    Kyoto Memories I

    Kyoto Memories I

    2021

    monoprint collage with vintage Japanese dressmaker pattern

    20 X 32 Framed

    Inventory ID: # 3579

    Kyoto Memories II

    Kyoto Memories II

    2021

    monoprint collage with vintage Japanese dressmaker pattern

    20 X 32 Framed

    Inventory ID: # 3580

    Joyful

    Joyful

    2022

    monoprint collage

    30 X 22 Framed

    Inventory ID: # 3588

    Whisper I

    Whisper I

    2021

    monoprint

    30 X 22 Framed

    Inventory ID: # 3589

    Whisper II

    Whisper II

    2021

    monoprint

    30 X 22 Framed

    Inventory ID: # 3590

    Moonlight Shines Through

    Moonlight Shines Through

    2022

    monoprint collage and chine collé on birch panel board

    18 X 24

    Inventory ID: # 3591

    Night Meadow II

    Night Meadow II

    2022

    monoprint and chine collé on birch panel board

    30 X 22

    Inventory ID: # 3597

    Night Meadow I

    Night Meadow I

    2022

    monoprint and chine collé on birch panel board

    30 X 22

    Inventory ID: # 3598

    Southwest Saturation

    Southwest Saturation

    2022

    monoprint collage and chine collé on birch panel board

    30 X 22

    Inventory ID: # 3600

    Still Life I

    Still Life I

    2021

    monoprint collage

    18 X 18

    Inventory ID: # 3281

    Still Life II

    Still Life II

    2021

    monoprint collage

    18 X 18

    Inventory ID: # 3282

    Desert Blooms II

    Desert Blooms II

    monoprint on handmade paper

    25.5 X 19

    Inventory ID: # 2353

    Still Life III

    Still Life III

    2021

    monoprint collage

    18 X 18

    Inventory ID: # 3453