Print Appreciation with Robert Truszkowski
Robert Truszkowski, WEEB, 2024, Washi paper, reed, string, paste, wood, silkscreen, LED light.
Join alumni Robert Truszkowski for a hands-on Print Appreciation session, where he will show recent prints. Note that “recent” is a relative term and might, in fact, go back as far as the 1990s!
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
4pm to 5:30pm
Union Gallery
Admission is free, but space is limited — please register in advance.
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a contemporary artist working in Print-based media, Robert’s practice straddles a treacherous conceptual and material divide. The history of printmaking is the history of humankind’s enlightenment; printed matter revolutionized the way in which knowledge and information could, and would, be spread. Printing gave birth to the Renaissance. Printing gave birth to democratization of the idea of ideas. Printing gave birth to communication.
Robert’s work references this social history of information, power, and authority. Codification of personal-narrative semiotics and strong auto-biographical tendencies toy with his keen interest in the social, commercial, and technical history of Print itself, as well as religion, popular culture, science, language, and rap music.
Robert Truszkowski. Photo courtesy of the artist.
ROBERT TRUSZKOWSKI
Robert Truszkowski (BFA Queen’s, MFA Concordia) has exhibited and lectured internationally, winning awards and recognition as an important artist working in contemporary Printmaking media. Robert has printed editions for several well-known Canadian artists including Betty Goodwin and Ed Pien at Stinger Editions (Concordia University), as well as Zachari Logan and Alison Norlen, through版画島Hangashima Press, which he founded in 2019. Robert has taught printmaking, digital imaging and contemporary theory at Queen’s, Concordia and the Haliburton School of the Arts. In 2018, he was Visiting Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, and Kyoto Seika University. Robert is Professor and Head of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina.