The Doyenne of Digital Printmakers

Dorothy Krause is Emeritus Professor of Computer Graphics at the Massachusetts College of Art and a founding member of Digital Atelier® and Unique Editions. She has a D.Ed. from the Pennsylvania State University. Her work is in museum and corporate collections and is featured widely in exhibitions and publications.

"I am an artist who uses both traditional media and the computer to produce original fine art and editions. My work is based upon the premise that our similarities are greater than our differences and that, at this time in history, because of technology, we are able to transcend our separateness and to understand, as at no time in the past, our interdependence.

"Although trained as a painter, I am a collage-maker by nature, using historical and current images as the source material for my work. I enlarge on the fragmented political, ethical and social meanings the materials suggest by combining, layering, manipulating and merging them into provocative statements or questions. My work celebrates the dignity of the individual and the strength of the spirit and encourages individual resistance and renewal.

"Working with digital files allow me to change the scale, transparency, color, brightness and contrast of the parts and of the whole. It allows me to experiment endlessly, save variations and make comparisons which I could never do using traditional media exclusively. The computer is a mega medium/tool that I will never completely master, always challenging me to grow and change."

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