BIG exhibition offers new takes on print media

Audacious prints on a grand scale by six artists comprise “BIG: Collaboration and Innovation in the Print Medium,” a new exhibition opening in the UW–Madison Gallery of Design on Wednesday, March 8.

Among the exhibitors will be Jennifer Angus, assistant professor of environment, textiles and design. Her work for the last several years “has been composed of insects pinned directly to a wall in repeating patterns which reference both textiles and wallpaper,” she says.

Assistant professor of art John Hitchcock’s prints usually follow patterns of consumption in America; he and Angus collaborated on “A Cancer” in 2005. That work focuses on various global epidemics.

Joining Angus and Hitchcock in the exhibition will be Chicago fiber artist Christine Tarkowski, Iowa 2-D artists Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson and printmaker Nat Ward.

The show, which runs through Sunday, April 23, in conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council Conference in April, is free and open to the public. The Gallery of Design will be closed during spring break, March 11-19. For more information on the exhibition, call 262-8815 or e-mail designgallery@mail.sohe.wisc.edu.