BEE VISION
$750 each, 19.75 x 19.75 in, gelatin print, collage & drawing on paper, mounted on board, 2024
PHANTASMAGORIA WITH LED LIGHTS
$1,200 each, 13.25 x 12.25 in, gelatin print, collage & drawing on paper, framed with LED color-changing lights, 2024
HOT HOUSE
$325 each, 12 x 12 in, gelatin print, collage & drawing on paper, mounted on board, 2024
PHANTASMAGORIA
$125 each, 8.5 x 7 in, gelatin print, collage & drawing on paper, mounted on board, 2024
Helen Popinchalk
Helen Popinchalk is a full-time artist and assistant teaching professor at Simmons University in Boston, MA where she is also the Director of the Trustman Art Gallery and the curator of the University’s art collection. She teaches screen printing, printmaking and a variety of other studio courses including collage & mixed media and artist’s books. Helen earned her B.A. in Studio Art and Arts Administration from Simmons University and her M.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Her work has been widely exhibited in Boston and beyond.
She was a founding member of Trifecta Editions, a print collective that, from 2013-2020, produced affordable, innovative, limited edition screen prints and art objects. In 2016 she fell down the rabbit hole of installation art when she collaborated on a black light poster show with two other Boston-area screen printers. From there, squeegee in hand, she never looked back. In 2019, she and fellow artist Andrew Bablo completed a full gallery restoration of a 1950s atomic-era soda fountain at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
Most recently, she has been collaborating with screen printer Jay LaCouture on Test Print Tuesday, a public event series that embraces the ethos and the aesthetic of the test print. Part skill share, part artist talk and all fun, each week features new artists and new printed content. Helen & Jay received a 2024 Collective Futures Fund grant that will help them fully realize 10 new weeks of Test Print Tuesday in the fall of 2024.
Helen lives in Andover, MA. As a third generation beekeeper, she and her husband have been carrying on the Popinchalk family tradition and have five bee hives in their backyard.
The work exhibited in Hot House combines screen printing, gelatin printing, drawing and collage in bright compositions and color studies that explore bioluminescence and are inspired by the way that bees and pollinators see the world. These mixed media pieces fluoresce in blacklight and are designed to change and shift in different colored light.
Bees and many other pollinators are able to see ultraviolet (UV) light – this extended spectrum makes visible patterns and markers on flowers that guide foraging bees to pollen and nectar. The series in Hot House celebrates the beauty and mystery of the natural world.
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