printmaking

Eva Wylie is a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking. She is on the faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a founding board member of Second State Press in Philadelphia, PA. Her work intimates how humanity and its detritus merge in both familiar and unexpected ways. Her compositions are compressed within frames and expand across large wall spaces to create conversations between nature and artifice, the organic and the synthetic, and the present and the past.

My works are illustrations, my tools are pen and knives and the medium is all kinds of paper. Paper was invented to tell stories, so it is the perfect medium for me to convey my imaginings. Cuts on paper nullify paper's plainness and passivity, intervene with space, respond to the architectural environment, mimic other forms and breathe life into my visions. Nature, culture, and the struggles of life are the underlying narratives in my works. Within the parameters of these three subjects, I create layered and illustrated stories referencing my life experiences and stories from other people's lives. In this thesis, I will introduce my thinking process, the research of illustration and paper art history and what I have learned in each project. I want to combine what I found in previous works, and explore more possibilities with paper art.