In Cahoots Residency, print 1
Banged out this small linocut. What a quick, fun, departure.
Mixed Grit
February 1, 2019 marked the official launch of my new endeavor, the Mixed Grit project.
Mixed Grit is a unique format, collaborative, stone lithograph print trade comprised of small curated groupings of select artists from across the nation.
Click HERE for the Mixed Grit account on Instagram.
Click HERE to see the prints of Mixed Grit.
303magazine.com Highlight
β10 Artists Not to Miss at New Exhibition Featuring Over 100 Creative Coloradansβ by Cori Anderson. Read the full article on 303magazine.com HERE.
Peace. Friendship. Limits. Settlement. 6 included in the exhibit Art of the State.
On view Jan 17 - March 31, 2019 at the The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO.
Art of the State 2019
Itβs an honor to have been included in the exhibit Art of the State 2019 at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. One of my monoprint lithographs, Peace. Friendship. Limits. Settlement. 6 was selected into this juried show.
On view: January 17, 2019 through March 31, 2019.
Click HERE to see all of the art that was part of this exhibit.
Artist of the Month : Just Printmaking
Iβm excited to announce the printmaking blog JUST PRINTMAKING published an interview with me today as their Artist of the Month. Some of the questions I provide answers to include:
How I get started with printmaking.
What I love most about printmaking.
My biggest struggles with printmaking.
Click HERE to read the full interview.
Star Wars + Printmaking
Felicia Cannon
Itβs not every day Felicia Cannon is in town and surprise visits the shop; but when she does, you hover near a press for an hour while talking all things print. After years of being a fan of her art I finally had the opportunity to meet Felicia at last weekendβs MAPC conference. Sheβs even more badass than I expected!
Mid America Print Councel - panel discussion
Last week I attended my first Mid America Print Councel (MAPC) conference. This biennial conference was held in Laramie, WY at the University of Wyoming. What a spectacular event! More accessible and low key than the annual SGCI conference.
I was invited to participate in a panel discussion: Complex Utopias: Dialogues with Community Printshops. Representatives from print studios across the country were brought together to discuss the cultural and social dynamics in community printshops.
Left to right: Chinn Wang (facilitator, Denver University), Sarah Wallace Scott (facilitator) , Stephanie Dykes (Salt Grass Printmakers), Kalmia Strong (Public Space One), Jennifer McTague (Second State Press), myself (Art Gym Denver)
Installation/Mural at Art Gym Denver
Display of five monoprint lithographs from the series Peace. Friendship. Limits. Settlement. along with pattern screenprinted direct on wall.
The mess from installation, prior to clean up.
The Printed Image 7
One of my monoprint lithographs, Blue-Collar Sugar 9, has been selected into the exhibit The Printed Image 7 at the Sabatini Gallery in Topeka, KS. The exhibit was curated by Melanie Yazzie, professor and Head of Printmaking in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
On view: September 7, 2018 through October 21, 2018.
Stand Out Prints 2018
Itβs an honor to be included in the exhibit Stand Out Prints 2018 at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN. Juror, Crawford Alexander Mann III, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, selected one of my lithographs from over 900 prints submitted for consideration.
This exhibition is on view: September 7, 2018 through October 6, 2018.
Click HERE for a list of my fellow exhibiting artists.
Subway Showtime 16
monoprint lithograph
Miles Nervine letterpress proofing press
I bought a Miles Nervine galley proofing press at auction. Manufactured c. 1900. It had the original felt blanket glued to the drum. The blanket was in poor condition and needed to be discarded. I decided to replace it by stitching an offset blanket around the iron drum.
Rethinking Urbanism at RedLine
One of my monoprint lithographs from the Blue-Collar Sugar series has been selected into RedLineβs 5th-Annual Juried exhibition Rethinking Urbanism. The exhibit was curated by RedLineβs Executive Director, Louise Martorano.
On view: June 22, 2018 through July 22, 2018
The works featured in Rethinking Urbanism explore the social, cultural and political complexities of urban space. These complexities emerge in part through abstracted representations of density as with the work of Ramona Freeman, or the distillation of color that conveys a sense of bleakness as with Frank Lucero's "Traces of our Hands." The urban aesthetic and tone that connect the selected works all contribute to the defining of a metropolis-state. In this case, that definition takes shape in multiples and en masse, but with curiously a lack of human representation thus conveying a sense of urban isolationism rather than shared or communal space.
George Tsalikis of Inky Editions
George Tsalikis of Inky Editions visited the shop! Iβve been wanting to meet him for years. While he was Denver today for only a few hours he made the time to stop by. It was great to trade stories and talk shop while we could. Check him out if you havenβt already.
Artists Magazine
One of my crayon portraits is featured in an article in Artists Magazine. Read the article about Dynamic Duos at this link.
Eischeid, John. βDynamic Duos.β Artists Magazine, April 2018, p. 74.
Open Portfolio
Yesterday was the Open Portfolio event for MoPrint 2018. I was one of forty artists taking part in this energetic event that was hosted by RedLine. I canβt thank RedLine enough for their support of the arts in Denver.
Poster by: Michael Keyes & Ray Tomasso
Printmaking: The Digital Debate
Yesterday I was a participant in a MoPrint 2018 panel discussion, held at the McNicholβs Civic Center Building. The topic was Printmaking: The Digital Debate, organized and moderated by master printer Mark Lunning (Open Press).
Left to right: Susan Oehme (Oehme Graphics), Mark Lunning (Open Press), Leon Loughridge (Dry Creek Art Press), John Bonath, myself.
Giant Woodcuts
It was a pleasure to curate this exhibit for the Art Gym Gallery, Giant Woodcuts, as part of Denverβs biennial Month of Printmaking event.
Pressing Matters interview
Iβm in print! Thereβs a nice two page spread about my art and my current workspace (Art Gym Denver) in issue 3 of Pressing Matters Magazine.
Order issues of Pressing Matters HERE.
