Gina Palmer
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Gina Palmer is best known for B&W relief portraits of sheep, goats, pigs, and other fur-bearing creatures which inhabit her commercial work. Forging a commitment to linoleum early on, it’s grassroots appeal, boldness, and direct process fits her subjects. Collaborations with rural Hudson Valley farmers, flora and fauna inform and sustain her.
Frances Jetter and Frank Eckmair, inspiring artists-educators ignited conflicts early on. Eckmair, at Buffalo State was passionately invested in the rural landscape of Central New York, while School of Visual Arts study with Frances Jetter, taught her about advocacy and the power of illustration.
Finding a path between these directions has always challenged her. Teaching is an antidote to this struggle, illuminating pathways to contemporary processes and on-going conversations.
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Recently, I have been exploring a more experimental approach to printmaking by combining bits of relief and gelatin images, with Tetra Pak intaglio, chine colle, and collage — while creating opportunities for chance occurrences, and happy accidents.
Many of my printing plates are made from re-cycled materials, and invoke a “wabi-sabi” approach, a concern for sustainability and a desire for simple, portable processes, that create space for serendipity.
Transparent dots, clouds, birds, flowers, seeds, garden and rural structures, repeat and re-combine, evoking past, present and future, while suggesting new paths. They are companion objects that function as my daily reminders to show up and be present, let go and dive deeper. Context evolves, narratives emerge, and current events loom, adding to the stories.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS
PRESSING MATTERS MAGAZINE, Issue #30 Black & Red print challenge 2025
Main Street Arts, Birds, NYS Juried Exhibition April 2025
CCP, Norwalk, 15th Biennial International Miniature Print Show 2025
MOVEMENT – Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 2025
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Winter Blues 2024
Woodstock School of Art - Showcase Exhibition II, July 2024
Star Library, Words & Images, October 2023 Co-Curated
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Small works 2023
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Salon Show 2023
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Farms & Fields (Curator)
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Surrealism, Fantasy, Abstraction 2023
Bethany Arts Center- NYSATA REGION 7 October 2021
CCP, Norwalk, 14th Biennial International Miniature Print Show 2023
CCP Norwalk, 8th Biennial FOOTPRINT International Exhibition 2022
CCP, Norwalk, 13th Biennial International Miniature Print Show 2021
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Collaboration With Woodstock School of Art 2022
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Winter Works 2022 (Curator)
Tivoli Artists Gallery - Solo Spotlights 2021
Tivoli Artists Gallery - New Year/New Work 2021
Out of Isolation - The Firefly Artists 2020
NYSATA Region 7 Annual Exhibitions 2016-2020
Hudson Valley Seed Library - Kingston, NY 2014
Dear Mother Nature – Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 2012
Dutchess Community College Art Teachers Exhibition 2009
Marist College Annual Faculty Exhibitions 1996-2005
Print’s Best Letterheads and Cards, R.C. Publications 2000
Print Magazine Regional Design Annual 1996,1997,1998
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Website: ginapalmerillustrations.com
Email: ginapalmerillustrations@gmail.com
Instagram: @ginapalmerillustrations
Summer Fires, gelatin print, collage, 12 x 12 in.
Night Life, gelatin print, collage, 12 x 12 in.
Migration Series, Tetra Pak Print, trace monotype, collage, cradled coard, 28 x 32 in.
Night Life Installation, gelatin prints, cradled boards, 36 x 48 in.
Rocky Shores, relief prints, encaustic collage, 11 x 14 in.
Dreamer, gelatin print, cradled board, 10 x 10 in.
Past And Present, gelatin print, cradled board, 12 x 12 in.
Outlier, gelatin print, cradled board, 6 x 6 in.
Singing Fields II, relief print, collage, cradled board, 8 x 8 in.
Conclave, gelatin print, cradled board, 8 x 8 in.
Pressing Matters, gelatin print, 12 x 14 in.
Fire Season, gelatin print, relief print, collage 12 x 12 in.
Weeds, Tetra Pak Print, collage, 6.75 x 6.75 in.
Companions, Tetra Pak Print, collage, 6.75 x 6.75 in.
Sunshiny Day, Tetra Pak and gelatin print, 10.25 x 10.25 in.
June, gelatin print, collage, 12 x 12 in.
Blue State, relief print, collage, cradled board, 10 x10 in.
July, gelatin print, collage, 12 x 12 in.
Commotion, mixed media, cradled board, 16 x 16 in.
Reminders, mixed media collage, cold wax, 6 x 6 in.
Waiting for Spring, mixed media collage on panel, 6.75 x 5.50 in.