I’m a reasonably serious printmaker. Done the old way: images pulled on handmade paper… hand-cranked press… litho inks (great smells… nontox, maybe).
Journalism was once my trade, so paper and ink/typefaces and text seem to fit nicely. The message, or the naming of a piece is usually in my head way before the art. Often it turns out to reflect my outrage over the desecration of the natural world.
My mentor calls me a “painterly printer”, i.e., I over ink. And I probably ought to mention that I flunked color class. End-of-the-day-grey is one of my favorite litho outcomes.
In the perfect world, art from trash would keep the landfills out of the poorer neighborhoods, hmmm? In the real world, I rescue lots of plastic shopping bags, and some rubbish, in order to “redefine” them on the handmade paper.
I’ve been playing with "paper or plastic?" as a series for a few years. It’s not just choices in grocerystoreland but more abt. our runamok consumerism. Not a pretty picture.
You can't beat the messiness of making paper. In summer, outside, with other paper dolls. We grind pulp out of old grannie tablecloths, jeans, tees, etc.,... add a titch of abaca. Sometimes I sculpt vessels, body parts, unknowns, etc. Sometimes I press sheets, sheets and more sheets.
I try to hang out with artists. The two Wisconsin artists who taught me the how-to and the love of printmaking are Sally Duback and Barbara Manger...they both cluck at my ink overload.
Journalism was once my trade, so paper and ink/typefaces and text seem to fit nicely. The message, or the naming of a piece is usually in my head way before the art. Often it turns out to reflect my outrage over the desecration of the natural world.
My mentor calls me a “painterly printer”, i.e., I over ink. And I probably ought to mention that I flunked color class. End-of-the-day-grey is one of my favorite litho outcomes.
In the perfect world, art from trash would keep the landfills out of the poorer neighborhoods, hmmm? In the real world, I rescue lots of plastic shopping bags, and some rubbish, in order to “redefine” them on the handmade paper.
I’ve been playing with "paper or plastic?" as a series for a few years. It’s not just choices in grocerystoreland but more abt. our runamok consumerism. Not a pretty picture.
You can't beat the messiness of making paper. In summer, outside, with other paper dolls. We grind pulp out of old grannie tablecloths, jeans, tees, etc.,... add a titch of abaca. Sometimes I sculpt vessels, body parts, unknowns, etc. Sometimes I press sheets, sheets and more sheets.
I try to hang out with artists. The two Wisconsin artists who taught me the how-to and the love of printmaking are Sally Duback and Barbara Manger...they both cluck at my ink overload.
My work has been exhibited at:
Wisconsin Art Museum, West Bend, Wi
Artpost Gallery, Grafton, WI
Spectrum 305, Grafton, WI
Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Frances Hardy Center for the Arts
Bucketworks, Milwaukee, WI
Women's Works-Northwest Area Arts Council Exhibit
and at: The Spectrum Gallery