June 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Join artist Tricia Wright and Dieu Donné’s Tatiana Ginsberg for an enlightening conversation about their collaborative process for creating the work on view in Tricia Wright: The Naturalist.
Wright’s work explores her personal relationship with nature while discussing the importance of handmaking and the human touch. Audience questions are welcome after the presentation concludes.
Tricia Wright: The Naturalist is on view in the Berta and John Baird Gallery through October 13, 2024.
About Tricia Wright
Originally from England and educated in London, Tricia Wright moved permanently to the US in 1999. She operates a full-time art studio in North Stamford, CT, and maintains close connections with Europe.
Her works are held in museum, corporate, government, and private collections in the US, UK, Europe, and Africa. Recent achievements include her 2019 MTA Arts & Design Public Art Commission, a permanent large-scale installation in glass and metal at Crestwood Railway Station, New York.
In 2019, she was a Workspace Artist in Residence at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, at Vermont Studio Center in 2020, and she was a 2017 Pollock/Krasner/Arts Mid-Hudson grantee.
About Tatiana Ginsberg
Tatiana Ginsberg (she/her) studied papermaking and book arts at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and received her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In between she spent two years in Japan researching naturally dyed papers under a Fulbright grant. Returning to the U.S., she taught papermaking, printmaking, book arts, and drawing in universities for more than a decade.
As Director of Artistic Projects and Master Collaborator at Dieu Donné, she works with other artists to make new work in handmade paper. She also edits the series Papermaker’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper for The Legacy Press.
Her own work combines traditional and contemporary methods of papermaking and is exhibited nationally and internationally.
Tricia Wright (Rickmansworth, England, 1962 – ), We Have No Prairies from Bogland Variations, 2024, crushed peat turf, moss, fungi, and steel on handmade cotton and abaca paper, 14 x 22 in., Courtesy of the artist and Dieu Donné, New York. Photo by Jeffrey Sturges.
Artist Talk: Tricia Wright and Tatiana Ginsberg of Dieu Donné is supported by the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
