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.

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.

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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