Dana Potter has been selected to participate in the University of Tennessee Knoxville artist-in-residence exchange with the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland May 7-June 6, and will attend a residency at Arts Quarter Budapest in Hungary in June, 2019. Dana with fellow artist in residence in Budapest, Hungary.
above: Monica Farrar above: Noah Breuer above: Roberta Restaino Location: University of Dallas, Haggerty Lane, Irving, TX 75062. Upper Gallery, Painting/Printmaking Building
Organizer: Dana Potter, MFA candidate, University of Tennessee Knoxville Statement: Postdigital, emerging technologies, and new media, to name a few, are vague terms used as catch-all funnels for print processes which incorporate laser-cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing, etc. The funnel metaphor, however, stanches fluidity between printmaking techniques and incorporated technologies. A re-imagined structure of these methods may be presented as tree roots with equal stems for laser systems as printmaking’s relationship with paper-making or book-arts. Laser technologies specifically build on similar conceptual questions brought up by printmaking: quality of technique, loss of aura in mechanical reproduction, the look and feel of the hand-made, and issues of physical and time-based labor. Contributing Artists:
An interactive exhibition by Ashlee Mays and Dana Potter.
“Throughout our day to day lives we trade time for money, money for goods and services, information for access, and so on. Artists Dana Potter and Ashlee Mays use traditional and new media to lead viewers through a series of Transactions and Translations of material and time.” Dana Potter, a new MFA student in printmaking, is one of two students in the School of Art to receive the Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence. Master of Fine Arts student Dana Potter grew up working beside her mother, a ceramic artist, in an arts center in her small Iowa hometown of Okoboji.
“I saw her bringing people together and creating a sense of community through art,” said Potter, who will be attending UT’s highly ranked printmaking program as part of the first class of recipients of UT’s new Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence, a premier fellowship program designed to help recruit the nation’s best graduate students. Potter earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Northern Iowa in 2015. Her minor was in interactive digital studies, which looks at how digital technology shapes modern culture. Her passion has been creating artwork that illustrates how the digital culture, including our pervasive use of cell phones and computers, affects our everyday lives. Her work has received accolades from SGCI, a leading organization for artists engaged in printmaking, drawing, and graphic media... In 2016, Dana Potter won the undergraduate award as a UNI student (pictured on the right). Her SGCI exhibition was held at the Hudgens Museum in Atlanta and featured a series of screenprints using social media advertisements and a group of prints exploring computer mouse movement tracking and interface layouts. Her work was based on her investigations in targeted digital advertising.
Artists Elise Hanson, Dana Potter, and Jenny Harp. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, February 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. Every Thu. and Sat. from Feb. 18-March 4. Free. Vine Arts Center, 2637 27th Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-728-5745.
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A few pieces of my artwork were featured in a truly amazing exhibition at the Disjecta Gallery in Portland, OR, during the SGCI 2016 Conference from March 30 - April 5. This exhibition, curated by artist and printmaker Dylan McManus, presented, "a selection of works by artists who willingly embrace a hybrid approach towards their artistic practice. Digital and traditional tools combine in innovative explorations that merge printmaking with the technologies of the 21st century." The exhibition featuring current works by artists: Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson of Midwest Pressed, Paul John and Anthony Tino of Endless Editions, Miguel Aragón, John Hitchcock, Jon Irving, Dylan McManus, Aaron Nelson, Ryan O’Malley, and myself. |
EXHIBITION REVIEW
This exhibition and the artwork of each artist was reviewed on the art e-journal Aeqai. "ÆQAI (pronounced ‘I’ as in ‘bite ‘ and ‘qai ‘ as in ‘sKY’ ) is a Cincinnati-based e-journal for critical thinking, review and reflective prose on contemporary visual art." - Aequi
This exhibition and the artwork of each artist was reviewed on the art e-journal Aeqai. "ÆQAI (pronounced ‘I’ as in ‘bite ‘ and ‘qai ‘ as in ‘sKY’ ) is a Cincinnati-based e-journal for critical thinking, review and reflective prose on contemporary visual art." - Aequi
"I was especially impressed by the one artist in the show with whom I was unfamiliar...Dana Potter is making exciting work that navigates the post digital like a scalpel releasing rainbows from inside a robot."
- Jack Wood
At the 2016 Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Portland, OR. I received the Undergraduate Printmaking Fellowship. I was very humbled to receive this award and had a wonderful time in Portland, OR. Thanks again to the Southern Graphic Council for making the awards possible, Charles Beneke for heading up the award selection and ceremony, for the Portland SGCI executive team for putting on an amazing conference, and to my mentors Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson for five excellent years of Printmaking at the University of Northern Iowa. |
As featured on the 2016 SGCI website, here is the description for my receiving this award:
As an emerging printmaker, this award couldn’t be more thrilling. SGCI Conferences have been a huge source of inspiration during my undergraduate studies. I recently graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking. This award will help me as I set off into the world as an emerging artist and graduate school applicant. In addition to my artistic endeavors I currently work as a user interface designer. With the help of this fellowship I plan to explore imagery and visualizations of action relating to user interface design. I’m particularly interested in interface icons as objects and prints. These icons include symbols such as mouse roll-over icons and touch-command symbols. They allow you to simulate different actions digitally and receive information. I will explore the ways in which visualizations of these actions and the incorporation of symbols may contextualize in prints as a way of recording action. What about a user interface entices interaction? How does context and medium change the interpretation of an icon’s purpose and meaning? I will first explore these actions and icons as etchings, and then move on to incorporate other possible print media. Thank you to this year’s Southern Graphic Council International Awards Committee for this award, and to my mentors Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson for supporting me.
As an emerging printmaker, this award couldn’t be more thrilling. SGCI Conferences have been a huge source of inspiration during my undergraduate studies. I recently graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking. This award will help me as I set off into the world as an emerging artist and graduate school applicant. In addition to my artistic endeavors I currently work as a user interface designer. With the help of this fellowship I plan to explore imagery and visualizations of action relating to user interface design. I’m particularly interested in interface icons as objects and prints. These icons include symbols such as mouse roll-over icons and touch-command symbols. They allow you to simulate different actions digitally and receive information. I will explore the ways in which visualizations of these actions and the incorporation of symbols may contextualize in prints as a way of recording action. What about a user interface entices interaction? How does context and medium change the interpretation of an icon’s purpose and meaning? I will first explore these actions and icons as etchings, and then move on to incorporate other possible print media. Thank you to this year’s Southern Graphic Council International Awards Committee for this award, and to my mentors Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson for supporting me.
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