Fanny Retsek

San Jose

Fanny Retsek combines traditional printmaking with drawing and mixed media. Often she uses the print multiple times to create unique larger-scale “printstallations.” Fanny’s current work focuses on environmental degradation and species decline. The work of ecologists, field biologists and animal behaviorists plays a key role in her practice. Additionally, so does tradition and folklore as influences in human’s actions and attitudes toward other animals. Fanny’s prints are included in the collections of Fine Art Museums, San Francisco, Oakland Museum of Art, The Corcoran and numerous private collections. She exhibits throughout the Bay Area, nationally, and internationally in Mexico and Australia. Her work has received honors which include an award from the curator of prints and drawings at the Chicago Art Institute for her work exhibited in (S)edition: the Print as Activism, at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Michigan. Fanny received an MFA in printmaking from San Jose State University.