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Rebecca Gilbert and Hans Holbein: A Dance of Death in Two Parts
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024
12:00PM ET
Presented by The Print Center.
An exploration of the monumental project wood engraver Rebecca Gilbert has in progress – a re-creation of the 41 prints of Hans Holbein the Younger’s (and Hans Lützelberger's) Dance of Death from 1538 matched by 41 original compositions by Gilbert representing the people, technology and culture of our time. An extremely skilled and accomplished printmaker, Gilbert’s practice exemplifies a dedication to traditional printmaking processes and how they can be employed to offer potent social commentary in a digital world.
Rebecca Gilbert is a Philadelphia-based artist whose work exemplifies a dedication to traditional printmaking processes. Gilbert earned her MFA in Printmaking & Book Arts from The University of the Arts, and her BFA in Printmaking from Marshall University. She has extensive experience teaching printmaking and book arts at numerous institutions, including Maryland Institute College of Art and University of the Arts where she also served as the Coordinator of Drawing & Print Media. She is an active member and serves on the board of The Wood Engravers’ Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of wood engraving, its practice, and its history. Gilbert’s prints can be found in numerous public collections, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Gregynog Hall & Library, Zuckerman Museum of Art Archives, St. Bride Foundation, the Free Library of Philadelphia Print and Picture Collection, and Princeton University Library’s Graphic Arts Collection. She maintains an active exhibition record, and has extensively exhibited her work regionally, nationally and internationally, including in galleries and museums in New York, California, Spain, Canada, Korea, Estonia and England.
Among Rebecca’s most recent awards are an Independence Foundation Fellowship; a Victor Hammer Fellowship from Wells College in Aurora, New York; an Illuminate the Arts Grant; a Creative Research and Innovation Grant to support a research trip to England to study the history and practice of wood engraving; and a Winterthur Artist/Maker Fellowship.
Elizabeth F. Spungen, Executive Director, The Print Center, Philadelphia
Liz Spungen has been the Executive Director of The Print Center in Philadelphia since 2006. She received both a BA and MA in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania and has spent her entire career working with the visual arts in Philadelphia. Her tenure at The Print Center has been marked by programmatic and administrative accomplishments. She often serves as a panelist, portfolio reviewer, guest juror and visiting critic for regional and national organizations, government agencies and universities. Her curatorial efforts have included Black Pulse: Doug + Mike Starn, 2007; Nakazora: space between sky and earth: Masao Yamamoto, 2008; Silver Mine: Robert Asman, 2011-2012; Matt Neff: Second Sight, 2014; Victoria Burge: Penumbra, September 2016; Back and Forth: The Space in Between with Ivanco Talevski, 2021; and Rodrigo Valenzuela: Workforce, 2023. Publications include To See God Not the Devil’s Insides by Doug and Mike Starn, 2007, The Picture that Remains by Will Brown and Thomas Devaney, 2013, William Earle Williams: Party Pictures, 2020; A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures by Carmen Winant, 2022 and the forthcoming three volume The Print Center at 100, 2023.
Lauren Rosenblum is The Print Center's Jensen Bryan Curator. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College, PA; and MA from Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Philadelphia, PA and is a doctoral candidate in art history at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Rosenblum is a specialist in modern and contemporary American printmaking. Before joining The Print Center’s staff, Rosenblum held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Locks Gallery, all Philadelphia, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. She has also organized exhibitions for the OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY; and Print Center New York. She co-edited the catalog A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries (2023) that accompanied her exhibition of the same name.
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