February 16 - March 16, 2024
Collectanea
Paloma Núñez-Regueiro, Geo Rutherford, Jessica Tenbusch

Collectanea Statement
“Collectanea” considers three Midwest artists whose work revolves around concepts of migration and invasiveness, and the relationships humans have to each other and the
ecosystems they occupy. Paloma Núñez-Regueiro, Geo Rutherford, and Jessica Tenbusch base their work in the Great Lakes region. By collecting, observing, and classifying stories and phenomena, they read the text of the landscape. They create artworks from the perspectives of
both the ecosystems humans are enmeshed in as well as that of our own species which migrates and invades, and disrupts and adapts. Rutherford goes beyond deceptive indicators to analyze the edge of the water to inform us what the human footprint has done to the lakes;
Tenbusch’s artwork is an observation on our role as ecosystem builders and destroyers, the fragmented landscape of native and non-native species that make up our homes; and Núñez-Regueiro strives to create an inclusive dialogue that will help us relate to each other and
to the world around us in all its entropy. Using layering, collaging, and collecting of images and objects, they create works that span from drawings and prints to sculpture and art books.

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Paloma Núñez-Regueiro’s work finds refuge in the intrinsicness of human-to-human relationships, and our desensitized relationship to the universe. Ink and paper tell stories of impermanence and of the experiences of her continuous meandering of the world as well as the meandering of the generations even before her. Paloma creates printed works as a conscientious ritual to make herself and others aware of who we are in the space and the time we inhabit within our community and the larger vessels that contain it. By looking at our resident ecosystems, one can compare its reactions to invasive organisms and particles to human reactions towards the unknown. The way ecosystems adapt and welcome their new elements makes Paloma realize that humans have the capacity to mimic those behaviors. With that in
mind, she believes that humans can find harmony in the ever changing context of society. Paloma is an incessantly positive artist, she creates these prints from a place of love. Carving her plates is a ritual of prayer and light, and a space for making intentions for our communities' well being and for the life ahead of us. She profoundly believes in art as a tool to create the social change that can lead us to thoughtful actions, and bettering ourselves and our
communities. Touching a gouge to a plate Paloma strives to create an inclusive dialogue that will help us relate to each other and the world around us.
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Instagram: @palomaprintmaking

Geo Rutherford
Geo Rutherford’s work explores notions of invasiveness, impermanence, and the unseen in relation to the Great Lakes. The transparent waters are a deceptive indicator of the health of the ecosystems below the surface. With climate change, invasive species, and polluted waters,
the lakes are quickly devolving into a water desert at the heart of North America. She collects various specimens the lake has turned over to the sandy perimeter from mother nature’s pocket change to articles of the anthropocene. Much of this evidence tells a deeper truth as to what is
going on at the heart of Great Lake’s waters, such as the sharp white shells of zebra and quagga mussels, found indiscriminately amongst the lake detritus. Through lithography, block printing, screen printing, and etching, she creates a bounty of material to cut up and collage.
She constantly repurposes prints, mixing media and experimenting with results that twist, squirm, pucker, tuck and multiply.

Geo is a working artist, author, content creator, and adjunct lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In the summers, she is the Art Director at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and in her spare time she co-chairs the #whyyoumatter non-profit. Currently, she lives in Sauk City,
Wisconsin with her dog, Padfoot.

Instagram: @someprintlife
TikTok: @geodesarus

Jessica Tenbusch
Jessica Tenbusch’s work is guided by the animal and plant species that live near and with humans. These species exist in our homes, in our yards, in between the cracks of our built environment, fragmented but still thriving and never truly under our command. She creates work that reflects these complex relationships and how those relationships shape us as human animals. Her work takes on themes of relationships and visibility, control and power over the
environment and the environment over us, the sublime and beauty, all through the lenses of native and non-native species, cultivated and accidental ecosystems, environmental disruption, and climate change. She observes our role as ecosystem builders and destroyers. Using colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylic paint, she takes snippets of different plants and animals
to create pocket universes for the artifacts of our built ecosystems to exist. Jessica is an artist, illustrator, and curator. She has created illustrations for the University of
Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability and the band Maggie Belle. She has curated shows at River House Arts (OH), Ann Arbor Arts Center (MI), and Hatch Arts (MI). She currently creates works on paper, but also works interdisciplinarily creating sculpture and
limited-run jewelry. She lives and works in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Instagram: @jessicatenbusch

Inventory

Geo Rutherford
Amoungst the Sand
Glass tubes, found material

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Point of view - Mexican Immigrant working at Mcdonalds.
Accordion book, relief print, typewriter text

Geo Rutherford
Flotsam
Manière Noire Lithographs

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Breathe in, Breathe Out
Linoleum Print Diptych

Geo Rutherford
Jetsam
Manière Noire Lithographs

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Counted/Uncounted: So You Know Us
9 linoleum portraits, printed on Kozo paper

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Personaje
Reduction print

Geo Rutherford
Ballast Water
Screen printed and block printed paper boats, sand, zebra mussels

Jessica Tenbusch
Doppelganger (Dame's Rocket and Phlox)
Colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint on paper


Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Solstice Correspondence
Handmade paper, linoleum print, embroidery

Geo Rutherford
Detritus
Manière Noire Lithographs

Jessica Tenbusch
Glare
Colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint on paper

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Point of view - LGBTQ Community Member.
Accordion book, relief printmaking, typewriter text.

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Accordion Book ll. Transitoriness. 
Stonehenge paper, relief printmaking
Sold

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Point of View - First Generation Young Latina Girl.
Accordion book, relief printmaking, typewriter text

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Fugue point.
Accordion book, relief printmaking, embroidery floss

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Bones and Asphalt)
Asphalt, sterling silver, acrylic paint 

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Glass and Vertebrae)
LVL, glass, sterling silver, acrylic paint

Geo Rutherford
Open Arms
Collage, block printing, lithography, citrasolve transfer, papercutting, gouache, marker, pen and ink

Geo Rutherford
Swallowed Up
Collage, block printing, lithography, citrasolve transfer, papercutting, gouache, marker, pen and ink

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Teeth and Slag)
Slag, sterling silver, acrylic paint

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Vertebrae and Rust)
Plywood, rust, bronze, acrylic paint
SOLD

Jessica
Artifact/Ecofact (Cedar and LVL)
LVL, sterling silver, acrylic paint

Jessica Tenbusch
Haze
Colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint on paper

Geo Rutherford
Beach Finds
Artist Book, mixed media, found object, manière noire lithograph

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Glass and Vertebrae)
LVL, glass, sterling silver, acrylic paint

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Honey Bees and Concrete)
Concrete, sterling silver, acrylic paint

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Sweet Gum and Plywood)
Plywood, sterling silver, acrylic paint

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Femurs and Slag)
Slag, sterling silver, acrylic paint

Jessica Tenbusch
Artifact/Ecofact (Bones and Rust)
Plywood, rust, bronze, acrylic paint

Geo Rutherford
Edges
Sand, water and found material from Lake Michigan

Paloma Núñez-Regueiro
Uncomfortable Conversations 
Monoprint & linoleum print

Jessica Tenbusch
In Between the Tree of Heaven and Black Walnuts
Colored  pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint on paper