Jessica Krichels
Albuquerque, NM
Home on the Range with Intrusion
Photopolymer and Chine Colle
10" x 7.5"
2024
$275
About
Jessica Krichels is a printmaker and educator who currently lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Krichels grew up in Maine, and received her B.A. in visual arts at Brown University, where she studied papermaking, printmaking and photography. Soon after college she moved to Guadalajara, Mexico where she lived and worked as an artist and teacher for thirteen years, exhibiting her work widely, running her own gallery/ workshop space and participating in national and local juried shows. Her work forms part of numerous public and private collections throughout Mexico and the U.S. In 2012 she received a competitive National Art Teacher Fellowship to promote her artistic career. Krichels is part owner of Remarque Print Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she creates her prints and teaches workshops in printmaking.. Krichels also teaches visual art to high school students at Atrisco Heritage High School. In 2022 she received a grant from the Fulcrum Fund for her Project, Pressing Letters: A Collaboration of Literary Broadsides.
Artist Statement
I find myself constantly drawn to configurations of shapes and lines of objects I see regularly in my daily life. These figures become story-tellers, a sort of anthropomorphizing- in my art. I love looking for the playful interaction of these elements in the world around me, and then letting the images percolate in my brain until they spill out, transformed, into my prints. I often combine multiple printmaking techniques to create layers of color and texture, sometimes starting with a photographic image, and building on top, playing with the relationships implied by the placement of shapes. In this way, I aim to create an implied narrative through my abstractions.
Art from Jessica Krichels in other TAAC exhibitions
This is Jessica Krichels's first TAAC exhibition