Paper as Practice in the Dieu Donné West Bay View Foundation Fellowship Program

January 23 - March 7, 2025
Opening reception: Thursday, January 23, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

EFA Studios
323 West 39th St., New York, NY, 3rd Floor
Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm

Anna Hendrick
Karpatkin Benjamin
Katharine L. DeLamater
Candy Alexandra González
Jaz Graf
Lauren Krukowski
SR Lejeune
Anela Ming-Yue Oh

Curated by Eliana Blechman

Contemporary papermaking draws on generations of knowledge about fibers, waters, and motions of the body. There is ritual in the processes of preparing pulp, pulling sheets, and pressing and drying paper between or upon boards. The practice of papermaking is learned as much through an inherent, tacit understanding within the body as it is through overt instruction. Working with pulp is a tactile exercise – one through which artists imbue meaning and history into their materials and art.

Tacit Knowledge celebrates seven years of Dieu Donné’s West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, an immersive studio mentorship for emerging papermakers to expand and enrich their artistic practices at Dieu Donné’s papermaking studios in Brooklyn, NY. Artists and papermakers Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin, Katharine L. DeLamater, Candy Alexandra González, Jaz Graf, Lauren Krukowski, SR Lejeune, and Anela Ming-Yue Oh each spent three to six months in the Dieu Donné papermaking studios, fully immersing themselves in the art of papermaking, supporting artists and projects coming through the studio, and learning to hone their techniques and develop their own practices. Their fellowships culminated in dedicated professional studio days for each artist to each create new bodies of artwork in handmade paper. Their resulting artworks pull from personal, social, and historical experience, and explore ritual, identity, heritage, and environment, mining both inherited and privatized forms of knowledge.

For all press inquiries, please contact Emma Hill at ehill@dieudonne.org.

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