Anita Jung

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Anita Jung began as a college teacher in 1991 at Illinois State University . Since that time, she displayed her printmaking, stencils, and shadow art internationally . She attended Arizona State University as an undergraduate in 1985 and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. She has taught as a printmaking, drawing, and illustration professor at Illinois State University, Ohio University, and the University of Tennessee, and as of 1991 teaches at the University of Iowa . She also directs the Obermann Center ArtCart Working Group at the University of Iowa, which seeks to preserve the work of Iowa artists. She is one of the founding members of the Printmaking Legacy Project, a group of printmakers, arts professionals and students dedicated to the preservation of the art of printmaking through fundraising, education and archival documentation.

Jung’s art has been displayed both nationally and internationally . Her artwork has been displayed in Argentina, Poland, Iceland, Puerto Rico, China, and throughout various states in the United States . Jung speaks about her art, “Many of us share the suburban memory of craft objects and their association to materials that transformed the mundane into something special” . Her works also tend to use found pieces of digital technologies or other miscellaneous materials to convey her message. Jung comments on how these discarded electronics are easily accessible materials, but at the same time, add to her work as they are explicit in what was their original purpose .

Once Jung became a mother, she found herself becoming interested in decorating in suburban ways such as using stencils. She worked with decals, stencils- using both the stencil itself and the cutouts produced- paint chips, fabrics, and even going as far as to use a mirror that was inspired by her daughter and the role of mirrors in everyday life. Her interest in the mundane continues over into an interest in shadow art. She speaks of how we cast shadows all the time and one can use various objects, such as the cutouts from stencils to create pieces of shadow art. Some of her work also questions how people interact with art. One of her pieces consists of paint chips hung from the ceiling, so her audience experiences the art by walking through it. There were also collaborations she did with not only her students but also with artists from abroad. In these pieces, she adds drywall to the show room’s wall, so the artwork may be created directly on the wall.

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