Jeanine Coupe Rydings’ work is in museum and private collections in the U.S, Europe, Japan and South Africa. Her work focuses primarily on woodcut prints, etchings, artist’s books, collage and painting. She founded both Shadow Press and Press 928 in Evanston, Illinois for fine art printing and publishing. She received her BA degree from The University of Iowa and her MFA from the Universitat der Kunste, in Berlin, Germany.
Jeanine has received awards and residencies including Illinois Arts Council, Arts Midwest and residencies in the U.S. and Europe. She taught in the PrintMedia Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1991 to 2019 and now continues her work in her studio in Evanston, Illinois.
Some thoughts on collage…
While working on an historic archaeology dig in Iowa many years ago that I developed a finer appreciation of the remnants of things we leave behind. Bits of pottery, or bone that are carefully pieced together to better understand the whole. Later on while working for a book conservator and then as a paper conservator I learned about papers, adhesives and preserving fragile works on paper. But it has been as an artist that I compose and find satisfaction in making collages. It takes all these parts of my life pieced together to approach collage as I do.