Shell © 1996 Jörg Schmeisser
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Exhibit at The Williams Gallery8 Chambers Street, Princeton NJ
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Vessel © 1997 Sally Spofford
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About the Aritists:
Margaret Kennard Johnson:
Margaret Kennard Johnson, of Princeton New Jersey, received a BFA from Pratt Institute, an
MA in Design from the Univ. of Michigan and studied with Joseph Albers at Black Mountain
College. She spent over 8 years in Japan and co-authored the book "Japanese Prints
Today". She has taught at the Museum of Modern Art and Pratt Institute and is
represented in museum collections including the British Museum. Her talents as a educator,
speaker ,teacher , and above all as an extraordinary printmaker, have received recognition
from around the world.
Of her recent work, "A Long Long Journey" and "Into the Unkown" explore unique expressive characteristic of paper in reaction to embedded materials. She states,
Drawing inspiration from the past, Ms. Johnson attempts to symbolize philosophies of ideas and thought rather than produce representational images. Veiw Portfollio.
Jörg Schmeisser
Born in Pomerania in 1942, Jörg studied at the Hamburg Fine Art Academy and took his
post-graduate work at the Fine Arts University of Kyoto, Japan. He moved to Canberra,
Australia in 1978 to head the Printmaking Workshop of the Australian National University,
Canberra School of Art.
Schmeisser began his extensive travels in 1965 with a trip through the Middle East. Over the next decades he developed a strong interest in archaeology while working in a number of digs. The faithfulness to form and detail that he developed while drawing for archaeological publications is still a hallmark of many of his recent works. He has continued to travel extensively throughout Europe, Asia, the Mid-East, Australia and the United States.
Schmeissers etchings, often done in situ, display a reverence for the forms and intricacies of nature and culture married to an unrivaled technical prowess. Many of the images demonstrate the artists fascination with landscape and architecture, while others portray with great accuracy objects observed in nature. His prints often include descriptive text, usually in German, which becomes an integral part of the composition.
(Profile by Eric Denker)
Sally Spofford
Ms. Spofford graduated from Swarthmore College with High Honors and studied at The Art
Students League and The China Institute, both in New York City. Her work is in the
collections of The Newark Museum and The New Jersey State Museum, Newark Academy in
Livingston, NJ. and in many corporate and private collections. View Portfollio.
Questions posed by the origins of the worlds cultures and history have taken Spofford sweeping through other cultures looking for the common denominators . Of her artistic interpretation of ancient cultures She notes:
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