Art Exhibition and Reception: Jean Gumpper

Join COPPR and Auric Gallery at the Cultural Office to see Jean Gumpper's collection, currently showing in our office space and community hub.
This open-house style reception will be an opportunity to spend time with Jean. Light refreshments are provided.

Jean Gumpper was born in Hawaii, grew up in Michigan and spent time in several states, before moving to Colorado. Jean, Senior Lecturer Emerita at Colorado College, now works in her home studio in Colorado Springs. Jean’s prints are represented by several galleries and are held in in collections of The Art Bank at the Department of State, Washington D.C; in museums, universities, and art centers as well as in collections across the United States, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, Nepal and Sweden. She received a Visual Artist Fellowship award from the Colorado Council on the Arts.
Jean has taught print workshops at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and she was a visiting researcher exploring new technologies in print at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has participated in in artist residencies at the Anderson Center (Minnesota), Art Print Residence in Spain, Goldwell Museum (Nevada), Grand Canyon (Arizona) and Rocky Mountain National Parks (Colorado), Mackinac Island State Park (Michigan), and the Ucross Foundation (Wyoming).

Artist Statement
My work hovers between representation and abstraction and often focuses on the edges between water and land. Walking, hiking, and looking are the beginnings of to visualizing nature.
I’m intrigued with the rhythms of mark making and the possibilities of color, texture, and movement. I hope to capture the sense of being in the landscape, hearing the sounds, feeling the air. I work within a structure, the tradition of woodcut, which allows me to freely explore the layers and shifts within it. These limitations of process offer unlimited possibility.

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