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Biography

Dorothy Simpson Krause is a painter by training and collage-maker by nature who began her experimental printmaking with reprographic machines. Since being introduced to computers in the late 1960’s when working on her doctorate at Penn State, she has pioneered the combining of traditional and digital media.

In the past decade Krause has traveled to Vietnam, Mexico, Tibet, Thailand, Singapore, Israel, Jordan, India, England, Cuba and Italy. When she travels she keeps a journal and collects ephemera for future use. The journals are both works of art in their own right and are used as source material for other work including large scale mixed media pieces, artist books and book-like objects that bridge between these two forms. Krause embeds archetypal symbols and fragments of image and text in multiple layers of texture and meaning, combining the humblest of materials - plaster, tar, wax and pigment - with the latest in technology to evoke the past and herald the future. Her art-making is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media in an ongoing dialogue – a visible means of exploring meaning. Her work is exhibited regularly in galleries and museums and featured in numerous current periodicals and books.

Krause is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art where she founded the Computer Arts Center, and a member of Digital Atelier®, an artist collaborative, with Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and symposia and a consultant for manufacturers and distributors of products which may be used by fine artists. In July 1997, Krause organized “Digital Atelier: A printmaking studio for the 21st century" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was an artist-in-residence there for 21 days. For that work she and her colleagues received a Smithsonian Technology in the Arts Award. That same year, she worked with a group of curators to help them envision the potential of digital printmaking in “Media for a New Millennium”, a work-tank/ think-shop organized by the Vinalhaven Graphic Arts Foundation. In June 2001, with Digital Atelier, Krause demonstrated digital printmaking techniques at the opening of the Brooklyn Museum of Art 27th Print National, Digital: Printmaking Now. Krause is co-author, with Karin Schminke and Bonny Lhotka, of Digital Art Studio: Techniques for combining inkjet printing with traditional art materials, Watson-Guptill 2004. She is represented in Massachusetts by Judi Rotenberg Gallery.