University of North Texas 
This exhibition was created by Claire Schmalzried. Claire is a printmaker and digital
fabrication artist in the last semester of her undergraduate degrees studying printmaking,
history, and interdisciplinary arts and design at UNT.
Her work, like most things, starts with an observation. For as long as she has been
creating, she has been perfecting the art of watching. Watching comes with the idea
that you are searching for something; with faith, something more is there, that something
needs to be found and spoken about. Printmaking and its multiplicity is the structure
on which that faith grows and takes root.
Prints' entirely different psychology of place in the series and edition transformed
the softness of familiar eyes, fantastical delight, objects left discarded, and silent
partnerships across time and place into more than something to be found once, but
feelings to find again and again; to be found in everything.
I am constantly looking for ways to balance and celebrate the serendipitous freedom
of painterly imperfection, traditional method, and digital fabrication in variable
series. Seen through the quiet breathing silky veils of lithography, variable harmony
of monotype, and bitten line of intaglio with my knowledge of craft, is a study of
the ever-changing physical, social, and internal labyrinths we all walk told through
found, precious, and ephemeral objects.
This body of work serves as an open letter to a time spent watching and a desire to
show you Claire's glimmering curio cabinet of precious keepsake secrets without having
to confess.
For once they were not Claire's, and then they were Claire's, and now they are no
longer Claire's alone.
