Artists

Artist Bio

Lynne Avadenka has received individual artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Awards include Factory/Artist Exchange, Bullseye Glass, Portland, Oregon,The Dorothy Saxe Prize, residencies at The Oberpfälzer Küntslerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, Virginia. Recent solo exhibitions include Impromptu, Gallerie Eva Bracke, Berlin and The Project Room, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan. Avadenka's work is included in the following selected institutions: The Detroit Institute of Arts, The New York Public Library, The British Library, London; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. and The Meermano Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands. www.lynneavadenka.com

ArtX Project Description

Title: Goes and Comes
Medium: Workshop
Year Created: 2011
Description: Lynne Avadenka’s art is inspired by the philosophical and physical presence of the book: as a repository of memory and loss, as a vehicle for transmitting transcendent information, as a singular object binding together a multiplicity of ideas. Her work is driven by the combined power of word and image, the notion that both word and images are formed from abstractions and that both are codes to be deciphered. For Art X Detroit, Avadenka has created two separate, yet conceptually connected art works that expand upon the ideas mentioned above as part of her installation, Goes and Comes. The wall drawing and the accordion screen pieces are made from a combination of traditional (relief printing, letterpress printing), obsolete (typewriter) and contemporary (scanning and laser printing) print techniques. Included are collage elements from books that range from a French manual for machine made paper and a history book celebrating The Detroit News. The wall drawing expands the idea of the page, the accordion screens are book structure expanded into sculpture. Lynne will also lead a Book Arts Workshop to 15 teens on Saturday, April 9th, on Wayne State's campus in the Art Building, Room #354. Participants will fold, sew and glue together several different books to later fill with their own writing, drawings, or paintings. For more information on this workshop, please contact 313.420.6000. www.lynneavadenka.com