The pop-exhibition in the Meyerson Lower Gallery curated selected works from a workshop this spring titled terrains of wetness: printmaking and making landscape co-caught by Anu Mathur and Matt Neff to cultivate what they refer to as ‘a watery imagination’. Through the Spring 2018 semester students explored techniques in printmaking (screen printing, mono-printing, intaglio), as well as alternative printing techniques (such as cyanotype) to engage time and materiality in landscapes. These techniques were structured by three themes - transparency and layering;embossing and embedding; tracing and Inscribing. Rather than pictorial depiction, students observed processes of transformation in the field and engaged processes of printmaking in the studio in an analogous relationship. The workshop built on serial and iterative explorations, rather than the production of singular pieces of work. The observation and negotiation of chance events, as much as the calibrated deployment of known processes of transformation, in the landscape and in the printing process, constructed a productive dialogue in the class on making landscape.
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