Eva Pietzcker artwork presented by Open Studio

Eva Pietzcker

The best way to work for me is to use material which I know well and which is close to me. That is how I choose my themes. The more concrete the beginning, the clearer the final result. "Real" objects and "real" views are the starting points, and - this is the idea - they retain their "being" in the final print. I think that the "idea of an apple" cannot be expressed without a "real" apple.

I like appearances with a simple yet powerful charisma like stones, fruits and shadows. They didn't change their looks for millennia - they are archetypes of forms.

In my work I feel connected to earlier generations of artists, technically as a creator of woodblock prints and intaglios as well as formally in in my work within timeless image themes like still life and landscape.
I try to omit "unimportant" parts and to reveal the essences while reducing information - without killing off the vibrancy of the work. I try to achieve that by oscillating between simplicity and complexity, black-and-white and colour, abstraction and narration.

Formally, I often work on variations of a compositional theme like a geometric form or a special ankle.

Untitled (creek)

Woodblock
$2690 Unframed

Untitled (street)

73 x 28 cm
Woodblock
$520 Unframed

Untitled (glade)

106 x 22.5 cm
Woodblock
$550 Unframed

Untitled (forest)

73.5 x 23.5 cm
Woodblock
$780 Unframed

Untitled (trees)

Woodblock
$780 Unframed

Untitled (lake)

73 x 29 cm
Woodblock
$520 Unframed

Untitled (landscape)

33 x 47 cm
Woodblock
$550 Unframed

Untitled (room)

30 x 30 cm
Woodblock
$520 Unframed

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Education
1987-92 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Büchergilde Guthenberg
Radierwerkstatt 30links, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
"square - narrow", with P. Hepolutha, A. Krigar a. o., Galerie Classico, Berlin
"Personal Impressions", 94. annual membership exhibition of the California
Society of Printmakers, Pacific Grove Art Center, USA
"A Time and a Place", as member of the artist group "Nagasawa Ten",
Feb 21 - end of March, Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Netherlands
"Xylon 14", Feb 15 - April 27, Musee Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France
"Confrontation X", Galerie du Soleil, Saignelégier, Swizzerland

2007
"A Time and a Place", as member of the artist group "Nagasawa Ten",
Deco Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
"Grafika", with Miriam Zegrer, Galerie Pod Plafonem, Wrozlaw, Poland
"Flora", Galerie Classico, Berlin
"Woodblock Prints", The Print Studio, Hamilton, Canada
"Landscapes and Characters", with Miriam Zegrer, Hartje Gallery,
Brookline/Boston, USA
"Intaglios and Woodblock Prints", with Vroni Schwegler and Miriam Zegrer,
Galerie Hübner, Frankfurt/Main
"Gravures", with Miriam Zegrer,
Galerie du Soleil, Saignelégier, Swizzerland

2006 "4 femmes en papier", with Pauline de Gautard, Polska and Miriam Zegrer,
Galerie De La Cour, Romainmôtier, Switzerland
"Moku Hanga", Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France
"Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Program", DIC color square, Tokyo
"What a relief!", Philadelphia Print Collaborative, Spector Gallery, Philadelpia

Lectures, Residencies, Publications, Etc.
2007 visiting artist, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
visiting artist, The Print Studio, Hamilton, Canada

Since 2006 member of the California Society of Printmakers

2004 artist-in-residence (Japanese papermaking), Tsuna-cho , Japan, visiting professor at summer academy Pentiment, Hamburg

2003-2005 member of the German advisory team of IMPACT 4, international printmaking conference, 2005 in Berlin and Poznan

2003 research on traditional woodblock printmaking in China artist-in-residence (Japanese woodblock), Nagasawa Art Park, Japan

Since 2002 teaching printmaking classes in the own studio and at art schools

2001 established the studio druckstelle in Berlin-Kreuzberg

2000 artist in residence, RedPoint, Bandung, Indonesia