Jessica Meuninck-Ganger
Jessica Meuninck-Ganger is a Milwaukee-based printmaker and book artist. She began her professional career teaching in the Elkhart Memorial High School art department where she received the Sallie Mae Outstanding Beginning Teacher award. While teaching in Indiana, she co-chaired the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for the Indiana/Michigan region and taught summer courses through the Elkhart School Corporation’s Gifted and Talented Program. She received her MFA in Studio Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2004 and a BS degree in Visual Arts Education from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana in 1995.
She is well recognised for her collaborations with new media artist Nathaniel Stern, Meuninck-Ganger's work combine various forms of traditional printmaking with video and machinima. As a duo, the artists "mount translucent prints and drawings on top of video monitors, which appear to bring moving images to life on paper."[1] According to Chris Roper of South Africa's Mail and Guardian, "The work is funny, pretty and accessible, but it’s also complicated, surprising, exceedingly well crafted and rewards a long-term relationship."[2] The works pay homage to and cite a number of artists, including Diego Velázquez,[3] Katsushika Hokusai,[4] Eadweard Muybridge, Claude Monet, Jan van Eyck, William Kentridge, Utagawa Hiroshige and others.[5]
Work
Meuninck-Ganger's work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally and her prints and books are included in several private collections as well as in portfolios owned by the Weisman Art Museum and the Target Corporation. She’s received numerous residencies and fellowships, and has instructed various printmaking courses and workshops at the South Bend Museum of Art, Charles Martin Youth Center, High Point, North Carolina Center for Printmaking, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
- ^ Schumacher, Mary Louise. "New moves for old wave art," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. April 2010.
- ^ Roper, Chris. Profundity and plasticity for the greedy, Mail and Guardian. February 2010.
- ^ Tilley, Robert. Past, Future Combine in ‘Print Press Play', Sheperd Express, April 2010
- ^ Art Spot, The Times, South Africa. February 2010
- ^ Ridgway, Nicole (2010). Passing Between: Nathaniel Stern and Jessica Meuninck-Ganger (PDF Catalogue). Retrieved on 2010-06-16