Gliding, Bonnie Goldstein
COFFEE BREAK: Artist Talks | ACPS Artists Alan J. Klawans & Bonnie Goldstein
Saturday, March 29 2025 | 10:00a.m. – 12:00p.m.
FREE | In-Person Event
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Bagels are generously provided by Fill-A-Bagel in Jenkintown.
Abington Art Center is proud to host this artist talk, featuring two of American Color Print Society members, Alan J. Klawans and Bonnie Goldstein.
Our Coffee Break series is a casual conversation with the artists featured in our exhibition programming. Learn more about the exhibiting artists’ process and technique through a talk and a Q&A. Coffee and bagels are provided for free.
Alan J. Klawans
“The ideas for my art come from my family, my travels, books that I have read, movies that I have seen, fishing, trips and flea market adventures.”
Alan J. Klawans has pursued a dual career as both graphic designer and printmaker. This included being director of design SmithKline Beckman Corporation, teaching at the University of the Arts and Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, PA, and being a design consultant for corporations within the Delaware Valley Region.
Klawans received his bachelor’s in Advertising Design and Printmaking at University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art). His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Villanova University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and the Michener Museum in Doylestown, PA.
Two of Klawans’ original digital prints have been recently acquired by the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, Massachusetts.
Bonnie Goldstein
“Printmaking is the medium I have used to express myself in my creative process for the past forty years. I have only used non-toxic materials, being mindful of my health and the environment. My current body of work exemplifies my ability to take on new challenges and learn from my failures in order to reap the benefits. I have always collected boxes, deconstructing them in order to see how they were designed. I found the deconstructed shapes intriguing and decided to try using them as my printing matrix; carving into them using the drypoint technique. Conforming my compositions to fit within the shape of a box is always a challenge but, I have fun, enjoy the challenge each time, and always find it rewarding. Whether I am using tools to scratch a surface to create a drypoint print or tools to carve wood or linoleum to create a relief print, I enjoy the process of manipulating a surface. The print “Glide” in this exhibit was a drypoint print made on a small cardboard box that grew exponentially into a 5’ x 3’ woodblock print.”
For the past 40 years, Bonnie Goldstein has been printmaking, keeping her health and the environment in her mind by using non-toxic materials. Collagraphs, dry point, relief and monotypes have been some of the printmaking processes she has used to express herself. Goldstein has created multiple series of prints for artists’ books and continues to work on new book projects.
She also taught art at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, PA for twenty-nine years, noting that teaching and being a productive artist go hand-in-hand and complement each other.
Bonnie Goldstein received her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA, and her ME from Arcadia University in Glenside, PA. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Abington Club in Abington, PA, the Speer Gallery at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, PA, and the 705 West Printmaking Gallery, Jenkintown, PA. She has also won several awards, including the Esther Rose Fisher Printmaking Award; the Larmon Photography Award, Jurors Award: Best in Show, Cheltenham Art Center; Honorable Mention at the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts and, the Mary R. Koch Art Center, Wichita, Kansas, Hugh and Dorothy Hutton Intaglio Award, Honorable Mention at The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA, and the Sarah A. Peters Fine Arts Traveling Fellowship Award from Moore College of Art and Design.
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This event is produced as part of our American Color Print Society Members Spring Exhibition, on view from March 14 – April 21, 2025.
Our Coffee Breaks are sponsored in part by the Jenkintown Lyceum.
Bagels are generously provided by Fill-A-Bagel in Jenkintown.