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
2022
monoprint collage with chine collé
14 X 14 Framed
Inventory ID: #3582
Small Pleasures II
2022
monoprint collage with chine collé
14 X 14
Inventory ID: #3583
Post to Tokyo I
2022
monoprint collage with vintage Japanese envelope
16 X 18 Framed
Inventory ID: #3585
Post to Tokyo II
2022
monoprint collage with vintage Japanese envelope
12.75 X 13 Framed
Inventory ID: #3584
An Arrangement
2022
monoprint and chine collé on birch panel board
30 X 22
Inventory ID: #3599
Kyoto Memories I
2021
monoprint collage with vintage Japanese dressmaker pattern
20 X 32 Framed
Inventory ID: #3579
Kyoto Memories II
2021
monoprint collage with vintage Japanese dressmaker pattern
20 X 32 Framed
Inventory ID: #3580
Grid Vessel II
2022
monoprint collage with cyanotype postcard
30 X 22 Framed
Inventory ID: #3587
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
2022
monoprint collage on birch panel board
36 X 36
Inventory ID: #3592
More Often Red Than Not II
2022
monoprint collage on birch panel board
36 X 36
Inventory ID: #3593
Savoring Spring
2022
monoprint collage on birch panel board
24 X 24
Inventory ID: #3595
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
2022
monoprint and chine collé on birch panel board
30 X 22
Inventory ID: #3597
Night Meadow I
2022
monoprint and chine collé on birch panel board
30 X 22
Inventory ID: #3598
Southwest Saturation
2022
monoprint collage and chine collé on birch panel board
30 X 22
Inventory ID: #3600
