Joyce Majiski & Zea Morvitz | Eleventy-leven: Eleven Years of Collaboration and Exchange
Eleventy-leven: Eleven Years of Collaboration and Exchange
Focus Gallery, October 1 - 30, 2021
Eleventy-leven, showcases 11 years of collaboration and exchange between Joyce Majiski who lives in Whitehorse and Zea Morvitz who lives in Inverness, California.
Stemming from a desire to maintain artistic contact and engagement despite the physical distance between them, Zea and Joyce have committed to a new weekly exchange or collaborative project each year. The postcards and book pages have all been sent through the postal system to one another. The artworks are multiple media, including painting, drawing, collage, handmade paper, book making and writing. Joyce often incorporates various printmaking techniques including the use of lead type and relief plates printed with her Vandercook letterpress.
Their work has a very hands-on and exuberant quality that invites people to engage and has inspired many to start their own projects. The pair is sure they have rekindled the desire to send postcards through the mail!
JOYCE MAJISKI
Joyce Majiski is a professional artist and has lived in the Yukon Territory since 1984. From the mid 80’s-2000, Joyce focused on print and paper making, creating and exhibiting work in printmaking studios in Canada and overseas. During this time she also worked as a field biologist and wilderness guide in the Yukon. The shift to full time art started in 2000. Majiski began exploring a broad range of media while focusing on multi-media projects and installations.
Joyce has been invited to multiple artists residences in 11 countries and has toured her own solo exhibitions in Canada, Mexico, the US and Europe. She is the instigator of programs such as the Artist in the Park program in Ivvavik National Park, Art Under Pressure Giant Steam roller print event and other local and international art projects. She is the creator of three permanent installations in Whitehorse. Joyce has active collaborative projects in addition to her own practice and currently works out of her Tuktu Studio near Whitehorse.
Just an aside note: My first Yukon exhibit was in 1987 at the Log Skyscrapers, former home of the Yukon Art Society, which is now Arts Underground.
ZEA MORVITZ
Zea Morvitz is a professional artist living in Inverness, a small village in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. She currently works in mixed-media, book arts, drawing, water media, and collage. Before moving to California, Morvitz received a BA from Wellesley College, and studied at the Art Students League in NY. She received an MA in Painting from the University of California, Berkeley. Morvitz is a founding member of Gallery Route One, a nonprofit art organization in Point Reyes Station where she currently works as the Director of Gallery Route One’s Project Space Program for visiting artists. Her artwork has been exhibited across the US, in Canada and Europe.
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