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Beej is combining these photolith plates with chine collé prints, adding Japanese woodcuts and 19th-century images from lantern slides for a distinctly lyrical result. The name of the series, the “Cathay,” tells all. At Kirchman Gallery, Beej exhibited lithographs that contained balloon images from nineteenth-century lantern slides. The prints were printed with Landfall Press in Santa Fe. Southern Graphics Council then selected two of these multimedia balloon prints for their 2006 traveling exhibition. Beej won Best of Show for Professional Artist Books at the 2005 New Mexico State Fair. Beej recently returned from her second trip to Peru and has produced a suite of prints based on her flight over the Nasca lines and on social issues related to the indigenous Peruvians. These prints are on exhibition at JANE SAUER: Thirteen Moons Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. Other themes that Beej is currently working on include images from her recent trip to Thailand and Vietnam as well as a unique series on women in Iraq and Mexico. In October of 2007 Beej will serve as artist in residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Bemis is an esteemed and competitive residency program supporting selected artists during a period of exploration and new work.
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Beej
is currently creating a series of photolithographs with the University of New
Mexico based on icons of Chinese paper cuts. Beej has made printing plates
from the intricate paper cuts that her niece, Julia Nierengarten, obtained
from Chinese artists while she was teaching in Nanjing.