Nicole Espy:

I am an amateur printmaker from Atlanta, GA, who trained in screen-printing and letterpress in Seattle, WA. My artistic interests are in understanding the way figure and landscape are rendered by different medias and I currently try to make landscapes that have been simplified in various ways but made more complex by color. The message my work hopes to convey is the texture of an individuality and inner life of black women like me.

This series of prints depict black women in nature - such as national parks, forests, and imagined landscapes - framed by assertive text - mission statements, wishes, and desires. I hope this series is a call to action for all people to care for and give respect to the people and places that surround them.

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