Exhibition: University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and University at Albany

My beloved Professor Joel and his Lynched friend have set up an online exhibit between the two universities of University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and University at Albany. It's a very exciting opportunity for the L.Mob to get together and check out what each other have been doing.

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While graduate printmaking students at Iowa, Brian Lynch and Joel Elgin, took a course in the Art Museum/ Gallery Theory and Practice. The Prof, who flunked them both had no clue that the future would allow for internet based exhibits. This exhibition brings together Elgin's students from the University of Wisconsin LaCrosse and Lynch's students from the University at Albany . We encourage the students from both institutions to comment on each other's images in order to create a dialog from the East to the Midwest. We encourage any reader/viewer who wishes further information on the exhibit or programs to comment under this post to LynchBaby or Beloved Prof Joel.

For further information on... Lynch please go to: http://www.lynchstudio.com/

Beloved Prof Joel: http://www.gracechosygallery.com/

Please visit the UWL Printfever blog to connect with current printmaking activity and to see the prints of UWL alumni: http://printfever.blogspot.com/

Special thanks to BlogBitch Becca for her hours spent collecting and posting images.

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Chloe Piene at Lower East Side Printshop

(c) Chloe Piene, 2006
Big Hands
Etching and aquatint
11.75" x 10" image, 17.75" x 16" sheet
Current price: $1,500

Chloe Piene was at the Lower East Side print shop towards the end of last year. I've only seen this one print, so I'm not sure if she made more than one edition. I hope she did.

I get the Lower East Side newsletter, and I'm always excited when I do. Reading it makes me want to go to New York especially to the LES Print shop because it is always buzzing with excitement. They have great opportunities with their on going classes and residences. Maybe one summer I'll take a class there.

More of Chloe Piene's art

Put Your Art online

I found a great little website called Carbonmade: Your online portfolio.
It's a great way to get your art put online really fast and for free without advertisements. I like the layout, and it allows enough space for me to keep my work for now.

Some other great services are similar to myspace such as:
Deviant Artists
-a great place to get to know other student artists and make fun connections through art.
Stuart
-set up by the highly respectable Saatchi Gallery. Nels is a part of this, and I think more should join him from LaCrosse.


I'm sure there are others too.

Alan Moore

I love Union Square in San Francisco. There are about 30 galleries within the radius of a few blocks ranging from contemporary to the good old Mattise, Chagall and so on. When the Great comes, I hope to show her some of my favorites. I've recently been admiring the Chagalls on display. His prints are so beautiful. Also, Miro's prints have struck an interest in me. Today at Union Square in SF there was an art show that I enjoyed during my lunch. The art show was more in the style of an "art fair" that you'd usually see during the summer. The weather here is so beautiful right now it might as well be summer. Anyways, I was walking through the usual still lifes, and kitty paintings when I ran into Alan Moore. His work was so beautful. His website does not even come anywhere close to what his work is like in person, but it is so beautiful. It reminds me of wabi sabi pottery from Japan. It's very spiritual and playful. I talked to him for a while and found out that the way we approach art is very similar. He didn't have any fancy words and didn't go to a fancy art school (he's not even a trained artist), and I found that very refreshing especially for the Bay Area. I think he's a genius, and if I had a gallery, I would have picked him up in a heart beat. This painting above was one of my favorite smaller pieces. I wanted to buy it, but I'm to po'. I think he'd like monoprinting a lot, and was trying to convince him to take printmaking, but I think he thought I was talking about Giclee prints. Anyways what he does he does well in his chosen medium.

Alan Moore

Julio Valdez

Julio Valdez's printed oeuvre attests to the significant role that printmaking can play in artist's career. Since1988, Valdez has made nearly 50 editioned prints, at least as many related proofs, and over 100 monotypes. His experimental mixture of techniques and openness to new processes continue to expand his creative program and the technical range of his work in all mediums.






Check out Julio Valdez website. It has a force of its own!


Essay: Surface and Symbol:Julio Valdez and the Printed Image

Printmaking position

WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY
PO BOX 5838
WINONA, MN 55987

RESPONSIBILITIES: Fixed-term Instructor or Asst. Professor to teach Art Foundations, University Studies and Printmaking. Art Foundations includes 2-D Design and Drawing I. University Studies includes a large enrollment Experiencing Art or Intro to Art as well as a Drawing course designed for Science majors. Additional responsibilities may include Gallery Director and/or teaching Graphic Design. Normal teaching load is 12 credits per semester. Participation in Departmental responsibilities expected. Rank and salary commensurate with experience.

QUALIFICATIONS: MFA in printmaking and at least two years full-time university teaching experience beyond graduate assistantship (or teacher of record). Possible renewal of this position beyond one year.

Print Zero Exchange

Print freaks...time again to get ready for the annual print zero exchange!!!!

Hello Printmakers,
It's time for the annual Print Zero Studios Print Exchange #5.
Last year we had 285 printmakers from 18 countries participate,
and the show traveled to 4 states. We thank you for your past
participation and hope that you will once again take part.
Now onto the prospectus.


PRINT ZERO STUDIOS - PRINT EXCHANGE 5.
Welcome to the Print Zero Studios Print Exchange V.
At this point we have at least 2 confirmed exhibitions.
Thank you to the Florida Printmakers who will be hosting
at the U of Miami. Thank you also to Sev Shoon Arts Center
and BallardWorks who will be hosting in Seattle.

GUIDELINES
All prints will conform to the following guidelines, any prints that
do not fit these criteria will be returned to the artist (No Exceptions).
- Prints must be created with an original printmaking process
(etching, litho, silkscreen, woodcut, etc…NO strictly digital prints)
- Paper size of 5"x7"
- Edition of 15 prints (Print Zero Studios will keep 2 prints from
each edition for archiving and exhibition)
- There is no assigned theme
- Submission Fee of $5.00 (US participants) $7.00 (International participants)
This will cover return shipping costs, we will provide postage/envelope.
- Submissions must be RECEIVED by June 15, 2007

Ship prints to:
Print Zero Studios
Attn: Brian Lane
323 North 105th Street, A-2
Seattle, WA 98133
Check the website for updates and information. You may also download
the prospectus and view previous print exchanges.
http://www.PrintZeroStudios.com

Cheers,
Jeremy Cody - printzero@gmail.com
Brian Lane - printzero2@gmail.com
Lisa Hasegawa - ilfant@yahoo.com

Summer Workshop in Skopelos, Greece

Clay Mono-prints with Mitch Lyons - August 1st - 15th

As you know I went to Skopelos, Greece last year for a printmaking workshop. I would go back in a heart beat. Not only are the facilities of the printshop wonderful, but Jill and Gloria are wonderful people who took time out everyday to ask us if we were doing alright and made us frappachino's. The workshop is on a beautiful Island with beaches and mountains. It's a truly magical experience!


This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study a printmaking method developed by the instructor himself, Mitch Lyons. Students will create their prints on clay and then transfer the print on to paper. This is an excellent way for ceramists, painters andprintmakers to explore new techniques. Costs to include opening/closing dinner and breakfasts is $1,400. Price does not include housing. An early bird special is offered by registering no later than April 30th.....more

Mitch Lyons

Skopelos Print Shop

Summer Workshop in Spain

A Two-Week Solar Printmaking Workshop
with Maureen Booth in the Andalusian Sun



You'll be taken with solar-plate printmaking; everybody is. This two-week intensive workshop with Maureen Booth in solar-plate techniques also includes some innovative relief techniques based on liquid metal.

Studio located in Sierra Nevada foothills, river below with nightingales, wonderful area for walks and sketching. Riverside walking/bike path goes all the way to Granada, also frequent bus service.

Sun, sun and more sun...

Katarina Vavrova

Katarina Vavrová is a very talented painter and graphic artist from Slovakia. Her work is highly poetical, imaginative, dreamlike and very suggestive. The quality of detail and draughtsmanship is extraordinarily well visible. The motives have their roots in literature and arts, historical events and persons. One can see traces from biblical events and from the time of the great discoveries, but also something from the outer world and something from the inner parts of the human soul. In her work the world of fantasy melds with reality, dream with actuality, and desire with experience.
Typical elements in her work are people, animals, men with wings, some hats or headgear and something in red colour. In many of her pictures we see a lady with a sad contemplating expression on her face.

The many prizes and awards received by Katarina Vavrová and the number of private an group exhibitions she has had, do prove that her art is of the highest quality.

Vavrová is born in 1964 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and today she lives and works in Pezinok which is nearby native town.

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