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Valerie Huhn: When the Margins Become the Center

Valerie Huhn: When the Margins Become the Center

SKU: 2021-00145.

People have used fingerprints for mark-making since the earliest recorded days of civilization. From the handprints left in the caves of Chauvet and early Chinese fingerprints imprinted in pottery and used as a signature of the artisan, they continue to be a mark-making mode for artists of the present.
Yet fingerprints today are far more likely to be used for marking others than for stamping a claim of ownership or creation. They are most widely employed by the police and forensic labs, banking institutions, and government health services. Of course, interpreting these prints is an art in itself. And for all their apparent individual information, fingerprints tell us nothing about gender, age, race, income, or anything else about a person that can be used for enforcing social constructs that define categories of oppression.
Where fingerprints were once used as a symbolic action of pride, they have now become a passive action?we are fingerprinted. I am interested in bringing humanity back to the fingerprint whether in obsessive repetitious patterns or the intimate setting of a personal bureau that houses our second skin.
The fingerprint work in this series is created with my right index finger. Each print is catalogued with the date it was created beneath it. The work revolves around identity identifying and categorizing people into groups and subgroups within society. It is now evolving into an exploration of writing codices, scrolls, mark-making, and the history of recorded symbols and language. The work also challenges the assumption that a fingerprint indicates a fixed identity, that a fingerprint doesn’t change as we age.
It is the notion of a fixed self or our identification of others that I am challenging by the use of color, shape, and pressure of every print I create along with its accompanying date.

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Individual/ Two Person Shows:
Activate Market Street, Newark, NJ, 2018
Gallery at Flashpoint, Washington, DC, 2007
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, 2002
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2002, 2001, 1998
Gallery 313, San Francisco, CA, 1999
Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996, 1997, 1998

Group Shows:
National Juried Show, Sharon Butler, Cambridge Mass. 2020
Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York, NY 2016
Technology and the Evolution of the Artist’s Book, Phoenix Brighton, Brighton, UK 2016
The Big Small Show, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, 2015
Dog Days of Summer, Studio 5404, Massapequa, NY, 2015
Scenes of the Crime, Central Booking, New York, NY, 2015
Time Frames, Marking Time, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
Wide Open 4, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Mayhem, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2013
Persona, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, 2013
National Juried Exhibition Color, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
New Media, New Forms, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, 2012
Wide Open 3, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
The Abstract Universe: Microcosm/Macrocosm, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown,�NJ,�2012
LOOK! on Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Opposites Attract, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
National Juried Exhibition Digital Works, Loveladies, NJ, 2011
Water, Water Anywhere, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ, 2011
Postcards from the Edge, CRG, New York, NY, 2011
A Reverence for Water, Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ, 2010
Postcards from the Edge, ZieherSmith, New York, NY, 2010
Big Blue Deal, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA, 2009
National Juried Exhibition, OIA, New York Law School, New York, NY, 2009
Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York, NY, 2009
Postcards from the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, 2009
Lennox Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2008
Schillerpalais, Berlin, Germany, 2008
NURTUREart Juried Benefit, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY 2008
A-forest Gallery, New York, NY, 2007, 2008
Gallery Tsubaki, Tokyo, Japan, 2007
National Juried Exhibition, Loveladies, NJ, 2006, 2007
LBI Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Residency Show, Loveladies, NJ, 2006
National Juried Photography Show, Loveladies, NJ, 2005
Nurture Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
OIA, New York, NY, 2003
Limn Gallery, San Francisco CA, 2002
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2002
IBM Show, San Francisco, CA 2001
Continuing MFA Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, CA, 2001
Black Oak Books, New York, NY, 1997
Gallery 148, New York, NY, 1996
CBGB Gallery, New York, NY, 1995
Crystal Quilt Gallery, New York, NY, 1994
ABC No Rio, New York, NY, 1994
148 Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, 1993

Artist Books/Publications:
Central Booking Magazine, New York, November 2015
Central Booking Magazine, New York, April 2015
Time Frames, Marking Time, New York, 2015
Art=+Start, Amsterdam 2005
Old School, Thames, London 2004
Caveat Lector Summer 1998, Volume 10 Number 2, San Francisco

Collections:
True North, The Fortune Society, New York, 2016
Imbroglio 1 and Imbroglio II, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004

Awards:
Gallery Aferro Studio Residency, Newark, NJ, 2017-present
chashama Studio Residency, New York, NY, 2014
Best in Show Silver, Wide Open 4, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
Best in Show Gold, Color, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
Best Mixed Media, Wide Open 3, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
ATOA Curator’s Choice Award, New York, NY, 2007
LBI Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Residency Program, Loveladies, NJ, 2006
Brooks Fellowship, Aspen, CO, 2002, 2001
Sobel Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, 1996
Chairman’s Merit Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY,�1995

Education:
MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute
BFA, Interdisciplinary Arts, San Francisco Art Institute

size

20inH x 60 in L

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Pigment ink, watercolor paper

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