Tandem Press has announced a new series of public programming events centered around its artist collaborations, called “Tandem Talks.” Join us for these events to learn more about the artist’s body of work, the projects they are working on at Tandem Press, and how the collaborative process of working with a printmaking studio differs from and complements their primary creative practice.
In the Studio: Marie Lorenz
Thursday, March 20, 5:30-7 p.m.
Tandem Press Studio | 1743 Commercial Avenue, Madison, WI
Join us for an intimate conversation with Tandem Press artist-in-residence Marie Lorenz in the Tandem Press studio. Come early for a seat. Space is limited.
Marie Lorenz (b. 1973, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) roots her work in exploration and narrative. Since 2002, Lorenz has been traveling various urban waterways in boats she designs and builds, collecting the tidal debris that accumulates in the harbor. From these floating vantage points, the artist cultivates new perspectives of otherwise familiar landscapes. Lorenz makes videos and installations that document and respond to the debris and discarded objects she encounters. Through printing, casting, or videotaping, Lorenz attempts “to un-know the metropolis by continually exploring it.” The resulting works act as a visual equivalent of beach-combing and tell the story of the artist’s explorations in “collaboration” with the tide, and the connections she forges with her occasional passengers.
Recent solo exhibitions of Lorenz’s work include “Waterways” at the Susanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, Vermont, and “Tide and Current Taxi” at the Rib Gallery in Rotterdam. Recent group shows include “The Sorcerer’s Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn” at The Contemporary in Austin, Texas, and “Wanderlust” at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. Lorenz is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a 2021 Creative Capital Awardee. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale.
Collections Viewing: David Lynch’s Prints
Saturday, April 5, 4-6:30 p.m.
Chazen Museum of Art Print Study Room | 800 University Avenue, Madison, WI
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View prints from the Chazen collection by Tandem Press collaborative artist and filmmaker David Lynch. At 5:30 p.m., Tandem Press Director Katie Geha and Collaborative Printmaker Jason Ruhl will offer remarks on Lynch’s time working at Tandem Press.
David Lynch’s (1946-2025) prolific, nearly six-decade career spanned an extensive range of art-making, including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, music, and film. He wrote and directed critically acclaimed films such as “Eraserhead” (1977), “The Elephant Man” (1980), “Blue Velvet” (1986), “Lost Highway” (1997), “Mulholland Drive” (2001), “Inland Empire” (2006), and the television series “Twin Peaks” (1990–91) and “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017). He collaborated with Tandem Press to create monoprints, collographs, and photogravures in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2008, and 2021.
Artist Talk: Marie Watt
Tuesday, April 15, 5:30-7 p.m.
Chazen Museum of Art Auditorium | 800 University Avenue, Madison, WI
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Join us to hear from Tandem Press artist-in-residence Marie Watt as she discusses her work and process in an artist talk at the Chazen Museum of Art.
Marie Watt (b. 1967, lives and works in Portland, OR) is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians (Turtle Clan) and also has German-Scot ancestry. Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Haudenosaunee protofeminism, and Indigenous teachings; in it she explores the intersection of history, community, and storytelling. Through collaborative actions, she instigates multigenerational and cross-disciplinary conversations that might create a lens for understanding connectedness to place, one another, and the universe.
Watt‘s work was featured at the Chazen Museum in 2021 in the group exhibition “Companion Species.” She has also recently exhibited at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; The Mackenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada; Stelo Arts, Oregon; The Buffalo History Museum, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Watt’s work is held in many public collections, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. Watt holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University, as well as degrees from Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts.
For more information about these events, visit tandempress.wisc.edu/tandem-talks.