Marcia Cross Instagram – Repost from @contemprints • This #membersmonday artist is Nina Jordan, best known for her relief prints. She is a graduate of Bowdoin College, ME and received her MFA from Brooklyn College, NY. Formally trained as a painter, Nina has spent the last couple of decades producing reduction woodcuts which have been recognized for their composition and rich colors. She is a recipient of a NYFA fellowship in printmaking and work can be found in the collections of The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Yale University Art Gallery, the University of Richmond Museums and the New York Public Library. Nina’s prints have been exhibited widely and she has been included in numerous national juried exhibitions. Learn more about her at www.ninajordan.com “I borrow images from real estate listings for my prints. The photos in these listings are often poignant and strange, and speak of our search for safety, our struggle for survival. The houses tell stories of our many different economic realities and our sense of self. In appropriating these images, I speak of the conflict between home as commodity and home as habitat essential to survival. In my recent series, “Who Lives Here,” I’ve been thinking about what it means to inhabit a place. In some of the prints, I have been placing portraits of animals, displaced and brought to the brink of extinction by man’s exploitation of the natural world in front real estate currently on the market.” #printmaking #reliefprint #reductionwoodcut #ctarts #nyartist #reductionlinocut #worksonpaper #houses #animals #habitats #woodcut #limitededition #color #printmaker