Seirrha Key

Artist’s Statement

I think of my prints as found object art. I am dealing with time as it relates to cycles in stories. Notions that repeat themselves across time are incredibly intriguing and insightful. Studying these ideas and watching them evolve allows me to study my own story and gain an understanding of the situations I live in. Each piece begins as a print, an intuition with direction that evolves with each added layer. The printed layers include remains of found flora and fauna that become actors in creating a narrative. From there adding elements like pretty stones and hand stitched designs and lines help finish these settings.

About the Artist

I am a Contemporary Printmaker working primarily with several forms of Lithography as well as Screen printing. Once I finish printing a piece I hand work it in a variety of ways (hand coloring, stitching, sewing on foreign materials such as bones or beads). I stop once I feel that piece has finished its story.

I create my imagery by several different means. First is finding what I want to print. These items can include anything from found flora and fauna from my local environment to whatever eclectic stuff I can find in large quantities for cheap online. Then I expose it on either a photolitho plate or a silk screen depending on size and if it is likely to destroy the screen. Once I have several of these made I compare them side by side and consider things like color and opacity to orientation and how they will fit together formally. Next I will consider the paper I’m printing on. Will this mental image look good on this map, this dyed paper, how about if I add it to this old print?

After this is all printed I let the print tell me what it needs. Is there too much movement or chaos? Do you need an implied boarder on a bleed print. What information is necessary to keep and what can I partially cover up.

Artist’s CV

Exhibitions

2021 – Found Colorado Mesa University Art Gallery, Grand Junction, Colorado

2021 – GJ Art & Culture Commission Group Show Two Rivers Convention Center, Grand Junction, Colorado

2020 – Culture Fest Mesa County Library Main Branch, Grand Junction, Colorado

2020 – Art Is…
Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, Colorado

2019 – 2020
Red Lion Art Gallery, Grand Junction, Colorado

2019 – Culture Fest
Mesa County Library Main Branch, Grand Junction, Colorado

2019 – Found
Colorado Mesa University Art Gallery, Grand Junction, Colorado

2018 – Dissonance
Colorado Mesa University Art Gallery, Grand Junction, Colorado

2017 – Juried Student Show
Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, Colorado

2017 – 1000 Print Show
Blue House Gallery, Deyton, Ohio

2016 – View Finder
Grand Junction Downtown Public Library, Grand Junction, Colorado

2016 – Student Show
Colorado Mesa University Art Gallery, Grand Junction, Colorado

Awards, Grants, Resources

2021 – 2nd Place in Found Juried Exhibition, Colorado Mesa University Alumni Show, Grand Junction, Colorado

2020 – Honorable Mention, Culture Fest, Mesa County Library Main Branch, Grand Junction, Colorado

2017 – Suzi Boyd Scholarship, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado

2017 – Student Showcase for Fine Art Category for Poetry book collaboration, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado

Professional Experiences

2021 – Cofounder of Garnet Key Creations, Fruita, Colorado

2020 – Cofounder, President, and Curator of Willow.ai Galleries, Grand Junction, Colorado

2016-2018
Cofounder and President of the Colorado Mesa University Printmaking Guild

2016
View Finder, Organizing and hanging crew, Grand Junction Downtown Public Library, Grand Junction, Colorado

2018
Paper dying and Silk Screen Workshop with John Cox and Matthew Hanson-Weller, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado

2016 – 2018
Artober Festival, Colorado Mesa Fine Arts Department, Grand Junction, Colorado

2017
Tear Down Crew for Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, Colorado

2015
Hanging Crew for Juried Student Show, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand junction, Colorado

Publications

2017
Stones, Literary Review, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colorado

All Works

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