Trudy Wiesenberger

Small Pleasures I

Small Pleasures I

Work Details

Small Pleasures I

2022

monoprint collage with chine collé

14 X 14 Framed

Inventory ID: #3582





    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

    Small Pleasures I

    Small Pleasures I

    2022

    monoprint collage with chine collé

    14 X 14 Framed

    Inventory ID: #3582

    Post to Tokyo I

    Post to Tokyo I

    2022

    monoprint collage with vintage Japanese envelope

    16 X 18 Framed

    Inventory ID: #3585

    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

    Secret Garden I

    Secret Garden I

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3562

    Secret Garden II

    Secret Garden II

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3563

    For Once

    For Once

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3564

    Plant Imaging

    Plant Imaging

    2023

    monoprint, cyanotype and collage

    Inventory ID: #3565

    Quietly Evolving

    Quietly Evolving

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3566

    Room 1030

    Room 1030

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3567

    Daydreams

    Daydreams

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3568

    Dot Matrix

    Dot Matrix

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3569

    Let It Be

    Let It Be

    2023

    monoprint collage

    16 X 12

    Inventory ID: #3571

    Dill Harvest

    Dill Harvest

    2022

    monoprint

    24.5 X 21 Framed

    Inventory ID: #3581

    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

    More Often Red Than Not I

    More Often Red Than Not I

    2022

    monoprint collage on birch panel board

    36 X 36

    Inventory ID: #3592

    More Often Red Than Not II

    More Often Red Than Not II

    2022

    monoprint collage on birch panel board

    36 X 36

    Inventory ID: #3593

    Key Lime on My Mind

    Key Lime on My Mind

    2022

    monoprint collage, chine collé and vintage Japanese dressmaker pattern on birch panel board

    24 X 24

    Inventory ID: #3596

    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

    Tokyo Dreams II

    Tokyo Dreams II

    2019

    collage m/m on panel

    18 X 18

    Inventory ID: #2293

    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