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| | ARTIST NAME: | Siegner, Marc | | ACCESSION NUMBER: | 2007.054.001 | | TITLE: | DREAMING AS ONE | | DATE: | 2007 | | CATEGORY: | Printmaking | | MEDIUM: | lithography, screen print | | SUPPORT: | paper | | DIMENSIONS: | Image: 33 x 24.8 cm (13 x 9 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 48.3 x 38.1 cm (19 x 15 in.) | | COLLECTION: | Alberta Foundation for the Arts |
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| | OTHER HOLDINGS: | Siegner, Marc | | ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Marc Siegner is a renowned print-maker and university instructor living and working in Edmonton. He earned a Diploma from OCAD, Toronto, in 1979, and began teaching silk-Marc Siegner is an artist and visual anthropologist/ethnographer who practice includes printmaking, photography, sculpting, videography.
He lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and from there he tries to get out into the world as much as possible to both inform and regard his practice from a global perspective. His practice is shaped by a range of influences, including the writings of 19th-century Iranian diplomat Mirza Saleh Shirazi, particularly his contributions to discourse on proclaiming identity within geographical spaces. Seigner’s Recently Seigner has been exploreing on arborculture through the medium of lithography. To Seigner, trees are dormant containers that manufacturer meaning and as a result become entangled in the fabric of our identity causing us to also to reflect on notions of time and place.
Siegner completed his Masters of Visual Arts at Norwich University, Vermont College, USA and his undergrad at OCAD in Toronto, Canada. His print and installation works have been exhibited across Canada and internationally including: Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, the UK, and the USA, the former Yugoslavia. Marc is one of the co-founders of the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (www.snapartists.com) and he is currently the lithography, screen-printing, digital technician at the University of Alberta, department of Art & Design in Edmonton. |
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