HEDGE Gallery’s annual Printmaking Spotlight Exhibition features two of Cleveland’s exceptional women printmakers: Phyllis Kohring Fannin and Lisa Schonberg. Both artists have taught at high school and collegiate levels and use a variety of printmaking techniques that they have perfected in their diligent studio practices over the years. 

Fannin and Schonberg will be showing a variety of work that includes relief, engraving, intaglio, monoprinting and screenprinting, all focused on a reverence for nature and the solace that they find in forests, gardens and the waterfront. 

Fannin’s recent tree inspired series offers a contemporary viewpoint of the intricate shapes in branches, bark and dense thicket. She states that, “the calm of the natural world is a way to understanding life’s cycles and its ever changing rhythms” as she uses the woodlands in Northeast Ohio as inspiration for much of her work. For Fannin, trees serve as metaphors for the resilience of the human spirit surviving the innate challenges and inherent conflicts in the passage of time.

Schonberg pushes the mystical and nods to the meditative notion of earth’s elements in her monoprints, relief prints and screen printing. Patterned and textural layers create reflections of nature’s beauty which she states are not to be taken for granted on this fragile planet. Lisa’s luscious color palettes are influenced by phenomena such as water flow, abstracted and entangled foliage along with other natural ephemera.

From the Ground Up exhibits the glorious diversity of printmaking that both Fannin and Schonberg’s work demonstrates, and celebrates the treasure of the natural world that surrounds us on our human journeys.

On view until March 4, 2022.