I’m excited to share with you the wonderful article written about me and Mixed Grit on the Pine | Copper | Lime platform based out of Sydney, Australia. Click HERE to read the article, written by Miranda Metcalf.
We recorded an episode for the Pine | Copper | Lime podcast as well. Listen to the conversation HERE.
See all the Pine | Copper | Lime content HERE.
It’s not every day your gym workout is altered because Kristin Sarette is in town for literally one day and wants to meet up and visit the Art Gym print shop. But when that happens, and your gym is only two blocks away, you rush to finish your superset of dumbbell snatch + mountain climbers and head over to the print shop ASAP on a Sunday afternoon. Then you hover near a beautiful Fuchs & Lang litho press for two hours while talking all things print.
Thank you Kristin for making the time to visit today!
I was fortunate to be one of eight artists selected to take part in Big Ink, hosted by Red Delicious Press in Aurora, Co.
I haven’t carved a woodcut in more than 15 years and yet I took on the challenge of carving a 40x40 inch block of cherry veneer plywood for this event. This was a remarkable event and I recommend everyone apply to take part if Big Ink comes to a town near you.
You can purchase my print, Mors Omnia Solvit, directly from Big Ink at this link. $1400.
June 8, 2019 I’ll be participating in a Big Ink event here in Denver at Red Delicious Press.
Finishing up my first artist residency and it’s been a remarkable experience. I’ve spent my entire career working in and for print shops and while I’ve always maintained a studio practice utilizing those shops it’s near impossible to wear multiple hats at the same time. It’s extremely difficult to play where you work so this has been a remarkably joyful week. Spending these days printing in a studio where I have no responsible to clean, repair, build, teach, or manage. Simply create. In Cahoots Press and Residency - what a beautiful place and experience!
Banged out this small linocut. What a quick, fun, departure.
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.
“10 Artists Not to Miss at New Exhibition Featuring Over 100 Creative Coloradans” 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.
It’s 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.
I’m 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.
It’s 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 weekend’s MAPC conference. She’s even more badass than I expected!
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)
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.
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.
It’s 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
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.
One of my monoprint lithographs from the Blue-Collar Sugar series has been selected into RedLine’s 5th-Annual Juried exhibition Rethinking Urbanism. The exhibit was curated by RedLine’s 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 visited the shop! I’ve 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 haven’t already.
