“Megan Frauenhoffer/Megan Frau pronounced like this: Frow-in-hof-er
Bio: I am a printmaking artist originating from
St. Louis, Missouri. In May 2010, I completed the
Master’s in Printmaking at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where the
thesis work explored the unconscious by blending memory with appropriations of
fairy tale and myth. The art draws from personal experiences as an identical
twin and a love of stories from all origins. To date, my career highlights include
MCAD MFA exhibitions at the Burnet Gallery and The Soap Factory in Minneapolis,
all-female group shows Feminality at Los Angeles’s Hive Gallery and Glass,
Cinder and Thorns at 323East in Royal Oak, Michigan, the Multiversal group
exhibition featured at Art Basel Miami, becoming Altered Esthetics’ featured
artist for March on their 2010 artists calendar, being listed as one of
Minneapolis City Page’s 100 Creatives, and invitation to the Dirty Printmakers
of America’s States of the State printmaking exchange that made an appearance
at the 54th Venice Biennale. As a printmaker, I have been accepted to various
printmaking/works-on-paper juried shows including Print U.S.A., Paper in
Particular, Los Angeles Printmaking Society and SHY Rabbit Print National. Most
recently, my artwork has been appearing in print such as FIND Art Magazine,
Beautiful/Decay Book 6, Hive:5 Comics Anthology, and Paper Darts Press’s Get In
If You Want to Live.
Artist Statement: My art explores emotions that
hide between reality and the subconscious. I am interested in whether
particular emotional moments shape our being or if behavior is hereditary,
unable to control or overcome. Growing up as a test subject for a longitudinal
twin behavioral study, I am drawn to the discourse of nature vs. nurture in
human development. My prints and drawings chart a narrative of reflection to
moments of awkwardness, confusion, anger, grief, or loneliness. These instances
of contemplation are infused with fantastical tales culturally embedded from
our childhoods such as myths and fables. Within these new phantasms, animals,
spirits, doppelgangers, and monsters collide with the heroine, empowering or
overwhelming her. The use of folktale
allusions connects to wider understanding of struggle and growth as well as
reinvent the story’s outcome. I investigate these notions through a combination
of illustrative detailing, emotive marks with printmaking and drawing media. An
abstract and dreamlike state is evoked through the distressed surfaces, inkblot
atmospheres, and the misprint and layering of uneven flood strokes of
silkscreen printing. A sense of unease is hinted in the stuttering lines of the
figure’s overall appearance. The prints capitalize on printmaking’s capacity
for repetition, repeating similar figures to echo the exploration of self or
lack thereof, often drawing from personal experiences of being an identical
twin. The narrative is structured through an intuitive process of printing the
image in response to what layer was previously printed on the paper.Within this
investigation, there is a subsequent study using imperfect prints, casts offs
of an edition, as collage fodder that mutates the heroine into multi-limbed and
anthropomorphic monsters. Cutting up and reconfiguring the misprints reveals a
darker insight of one’s psyche. These processes reveal unconscious thoughts
filter through the conscious mind, invoking subjective interpretations based on
shared experiences.”
Image: Megan Frauenhoffer (artist)
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