Plumes - Variations: Fabric Workshop and Museum

nectarine/white, midnight blue/strawberry, espresso/white, midnight blue/wheat

midnight blue/strawberry, espresso/white, midnight blue/gray blue, midnight blue/wheat

midnight blue/wheat

midnight blue/strawberry

midnight blue/strawberry

nectarine/white

nectarine/white

nectarine/white

espresso/white

midnight blue/gray blue

original black/white

The apprenticeship at the Fabric Workshop is great and I'm learning so much.  Mixing ink colors from scratch and learning the formulas is really exciting, and each time I pin down and print yardage it seems to get faster and easier.  It's a great feeling to be doing it all by hand and to keep a dying skill alive.  I'm having a great time playing with color - stay tuned for some new variations and completely new yardage soon!

Plumes - Midnight Blue: Fabric Workshop and Museum

"Plumes", printed in a full four-way repeat for the first time, and in midnight blue on a gray-blue fabric.  Looking forward to seeing what this becomes!

Plumes: Fabric Workshop and Museum

I just finished my first textile printing project at the Fabric Workshop and Museum where I am an apprentice this season.  It is a single-color, four-way repeat on muslin.  I started with an ink drawing to create my croquis, then repeated it and burned it to a screen and printed my yardage. Here are some shots of the process. It's called "Plumes".  Enjoy!

It's a really fun new skill to learn - it requires some planning and puzzling things together but it's a good challenge.  Next up will be to do a three-color repeat.  Stay tuned!

Currently on View: Printmaking Convergence - Austin, Texas

Printmaking Convergence presents New Prints 2011/Autumn, the 40th presentation of the International Print Center New York (IPCNY)'s New Print's Program. The show will be on view January 27th through March 10th at the Visual Arts Center. The show consists of sixty-seven prints by fifty-one emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of over 2,500 submissions.

image courtesy: IPCNY

For those of you in Austin, Texas, I hope you get a chance to check out Printmaking Convergence, which is currently underway at the University of Texas at Austin.  I am exhibiting work there with the IPCNY's New Prints 2011 exhibition which traveled to Austin in January and will be on display at UT's Visual Arts Center through March 10th.  There are many things happening in the print world in Austin during Printmaking Convergence, so feel free to check out their website to learn more! You can follow the link here: Printmaking Convergence.The IPCNY's director Anne Coffin gave a talk on February 2nd, and there are a number of other exhibitions lectures and panel discussions happening in conjunction with Printmaking Convergence. 


The complete artists’ list for New Prints 2011 is as follows: Norman Ackroyd, Erika Adams, Golnar Adili, Polly Apfelbaum, Rosaire Appel, Miguel A. Aragon, Isabelle Ayotte, Trevor Banthorpe, Curtis Bartone, Jarrod Beck, Grace Bentley-Scheck, Marcin Bialas, Shawn Bitters, Nicholas Brown, Rachael Browning, Susan Goethel Campbell, Alejandro Chen Li, Elaine Chow, Matthew Colaizzo, Terry Conrad, Erin Diebboll, Marie Yoho Dorsey, Odette England, Rick Finn, Yuko Fukuzumi, Isabel Gouveia, Libby Hague, Takuji Hamanaka, John Himmelfarb, Charles Hinman, Gary Justis, Alex Katz, Jane Kent, William Kentridge, Anne LaFond, Sharon Levy, Michael Loderstedt, Whitfield Lovell, So Yoon Lym, S.V. Medaris, Michael Neff, Serena Perrone, Ian Ruffino, Ed Ruscha, Soledad Salamé, Bob Shore, Joan Snyder, Preeti Sood, Jessica Stockholder, Tomi Um, and Pete Williams.

Volcano/Kaboom and State of the State: Two Openings, February 9th

Greetings Everyone!  I have two upcoming shows to tell you about, both have their opening receptions on Thursday, February 9th.  Hope to see you there!

The first is a three-person group show at Rosemont College's Lawrence Gallery.  The show is titled volcano/kaboom and will feature the works of myself, Hiro Sakaguchi and Alina Josan.  Here are a few words about the show:

A unique common thread connects the work of these three artists. Catastrophic imagery, both man-made and naturally occurring, is a theme they have each explored through various mediums including drawing, printmaking, and oil painting. For this exhibit, they have sought to question man’s fascination with and the correlation between beauty and catastrophe, while also highlighting their diverse personal histories.

Here is a link to Victoria Donohoe's review of volcano/kaboom in the Philadelphia Inquirer:Lava at Lawrence

volcano/kaboom will be on display February 9 to March 9, 2012. An opening reception will take place February 9 from 4:00 to 6:30 p.m., with a gallery talk at 4:30 p.m.

volcano/kaboom, collaborative drawing: Hiro Sakaguchi, Serena Perrone, Alina Josan, 2012

 Later that evening will be the opening for State of the State, an exhibition that features the work of current Second State Press (SSP) Fob Holders.  It represents a snapshot of the Philadelphia printmaking community and the work that it produces.  Located in the basement of the Crane Arts Building, Second State Press is a communal printmaking studio that provides artists with an affordable, supportive, and professional workspace. The Fob Holder Program accepts members that are willing to help manage our shop in exchange for unlimited access to the printmaking facilities.  Participants in the program, “Fob Holders”, are skilled printmakers from all over the country (and at various stages in their careers) who have decided to make Philadelphia their home.  Their creative energy in our shop is palpable and is the lifeblood of Second State Press.
 

Dates: January 25- February 17, 2012
Hours: 12-6PM, Wednesday through Sunday or by appointment
Opening Reception: February 9, 2012 from 6-9PM
Location:Gallery 102 in the Crane Arts Building, 1400 N American Street,Philadelphia, PA

Artists: Lauren Abshire, Daryl Bergman, Josh Carlevato, Josh Dannin, Erina Davidson, Emilia Edwards, Siobhan Koslap, Nina Macintosh, Brian Palmieri, Ryan Parker, Serena Perrone, Hannah Riotto, Krista Shaffer, Crystal Shephard, Christina Taylor, and Jake Yeager.

New Work: Build Up, Tear Down

I just finished my newest project, a two-color silkscreen repeat pattern, titled Build Up, Tear Down.  Measuring 20 x 27", the print can exist solely as a single image or be tiled together in groupings of four or more to create an on-going repeat wallpaper pattern. Shout out to Ryan Parker for his invaluable assistance! This print will become part of a group portfolio called In the Background that will be part of the Southern Graphics Council's 2012 conference, Navigating Currents, in New Orleans this March.  More details to follow on that event.  Meanwhile, it will also be included in the upcoming show Volcano/Kaboom at Rosemont College in February.

original print, 20x27"

the interior scene created by the four corners of the original print

here's how it looks with four prints tiled together to create the repeat