Printmaking Today PAGE 4

Severino Spazzini
via roma 21, guidizzolo (mantova)

philippines series

Other works: 2 - 3

Tallmadge Doyle

These works are part of a suite called "prayer series". Each image was conceived as a visual prayer.

My work consistently offers scientific and historical references whether it be work of the renaissance astronomers, mathematicians and luminaries or mathematical ideas and concepts which were at one time accepted truths. Some of my visual source materials for this series are found in the charting and diagramming records of various religious systems, as well as in early celestial mapping and the religious beliefs of their corresponding eras.

Soul and Sky
line etching, aquatint, hand coloring

Other works: 2 - 3 - 4

Maja Pegan
maja.pegan@gmail.com

The articulation of artistic thinking is more than mere explanation of what the artist says and feels but it is also a thread of thinking. It is the shearing of a world in the mind that
perceives a different view. The view that is different and gives insight to a new view. It is aware of all living and all artificial. The artistic thought captures all senses and gives
the viewer a new sight with that it makes the viewer realise it's own surrounding.
The artwork is not just nice to look at it is a feeling and realisation of the artist himself and of the spectator.

XX-XY
Screenprint, 2007

The process of mark-making through drawing, carving, or etching is the most gratifying and direct way for me to translate an experience. I am interested in capturing and unraveling the dualities of every day life in my art. With line, light and texture I strive to express the tension and search the spaces between transience and permanence, monotony and mysticism, movement and stillness, reason and emotion, memory and reality, fear and comfort.
The Pigeon Series began in Lucca, Italy where the atmosphere is dramatically different from that here in New York City. It is consistently serene. While soaking in all of its tranquility, I found myself searching for the tension that is always here in New York.
I found that tension in the pigeons. I became intrigued with their behavior-the frenzy and beauty of their flight, their violent greed in groups and their peaceful loneliness, their repetitive and sporadic movements. This series continued when I returned to Brooklyn where I was still entirely intrigued with their chaotic behavior, but in the city we all search for the hidden tranquility. In Brooklyn, I found that in their shadows.

Pigeon series
etching with Chine Colle', 2007

Sachie Hirakawa
printhouse.om@n3.dion.ne.jp

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Behave yourself
lithography, 2007

Other works: 2 - 3 - 4

Marilee Salvator
mdsalvator@yahoo.com

Through the juxtaposition of adult sexual imagery and childlike themes, I hope to illuminate the deep-seated confusion and scarring that sexual molestation can create.

Little Boy blue
inkjet print, 2008S

Other works: 2

Eleanor Symms
eleanorsymms@tiscali.co.uk

This print is one of a series of prints and artists' books about labyrinths: mythological, historical and contemporary. I view the labyrinth to be a metaphor for the human condition and enjoyed exploring this image through the medium of etching.

meander
etching, 2006

Aiste Ramunaite
ramunaiteart2003@yahoo.com

I use black paper to print my linocuts. It resembles dark atmosphere from where little characters emerge. I developed my own unique approach and technique building up layers. I draw directly on the piece of lino, leaving lines full of life. Every image dictates edition number to be printed. Using reduction method, concentration is essential. I feel like a medieval alchemist and modern scientist at the same time while creating my art.

Daniel Falco
falco_daniel@hotmail.com

I am interested in physical and psychological changes that occur in humans and animals and question whether these changes are natural or unnatural. As a result of genetic manipulation and the modification of our environment, I am not sure what is natural and what is not.
Although we live in an age of increasing advancement of science and technology, countless people of all ages and backgrounds are diagnosed each year with a number of frightening illnesses. While I am an advocate for scientific advancement to improve our lives, I am also fearful of some of the possible long term effects of our choices that we as humans and as a society make.
The humans and animals in my work frequently take on physical and situational characteristics of one another to address issues of hybridization, mutation, and modification. These images are intended to raise questions about current trends and conditions in our society.

Mutant
relief - 2007

JERUSHIA L. GRAHAM
visual_thought@hotmail.com

THOUGH I LOVE ALL FORMS OF PRINTMAKING, I OFTEN RETURN TO THE EARTHINESS AND
HONESTY OF WOODBLOCKS & LINOCUTS. THE PIECE “NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER” IS TITLED
AFTER A LITERARY WORK BY RENOWNED AFRICAN-AMERICAN POET, LANGSTON HUGHES. THE PRINT PRESENTS A WOMAN WITH THE RESILANCE OF SPIRT TO LAUGH INSPITE OF THE
ADVERSITIES OF SOCIETY. IN OUR MODERN WORLD, THE BUSY PACE OF LIFE MUST BE
BALANCED BY REFLECTION, AND CREATIVITY. “THE TOUCH OF THE ARTIST” EXPRESSES A QUIET
MOMENT OF CREATION.

not without laughter
linocut2007, 2007

Other works: 2

Jacob Hughes
jcb.hghs@gmail.com

The ideas, references and inspiration for my art mainly come from the irony of everyday life and the interaction between the observer and the observed. I try to create an interaction with the viewer and the art. Sometimes it maybe direct eye contact between the viewer and the artwork or just creating a scene that engages their mind and makes them think. Working in the printmaking field is a great joy. Nowhere else is their such an open community that is willing to share new methods and techniques. Also, no other medium has anything like a print exchange.

Erin with Lace
digital print , 2006

Other works: 2 - 3

Elina Kujansuu
elina.kujansuu@kotipasti.net

I am a young finnish artist, printmaker and I am also studying to graduate as a painter in a few years. I make pictures, visual stories for the joy of making art but also it is my way of processing my own life, own history and my relationship with the surrounding world and art history. My main working methods are painting and etching aquatint metalgraphics.

the winds
etching, aquatint, drypoint - 2008

Janet Marcavage
janet@janetmarcavage.com

My recent series of molecular portraits synthesize the languages of printmaking and genetics. These portrait images of family and friends are constructed of printed, colored dots. Working with dots traditionally found in halftone patterns for commercial and photographic printing processes. I re-present the dots as the four nucleotides that are found in DNA. These likenesses comment on how our current technology-based culture effects perception and visual language.

Justin
4 plate litho, 2007

Other works: 2

Kaitliln Redborg
kaitredborg@yahoo.com

My images seek a sense of loss experienced during disasters, seen through a lens of self guilt

From the Sky
woodcut, hand color, chine colle, embossing, 2008S

Zachary Stensen
zstensen@gmail.com

My current work focuses on the ideas of hidden complexities and relationships existing beyond our human senses and perceptions. The natural world is full of things we can't see; invisible radio waves sending information to our tv's and cellphones, the force holding a magnet to my refrigerator, the 6 additional spatial dimensions predicted by the most contemporary scientific theories. Through science and technology we have learned to build devices that are sensitive to many of nature0s unseen forces which translate them into things we can read with out own senses. However, I still wonder how complete a picture of reality we really have; If there are certain things affecting our moods, decisions, and behaviours that our human minds will never be able to quite detect or comprehend.

Shunsuke Ando
shunshunski@ezweb.ne.jp

There are things that never change, even though times change. I want to represent this with mixed techniques

Un soldato e la sua mallinconia
etching, aquatint

Other works: 2 - 3 -

Taizo Sugimoto
tai-zo@jcom.home.ne.jp

Cell forest
Etching, aquatint, 2007

Other works: 2 - 3 - 4 -

Stefania Binnick
sbinnick@comcast.net

I make art to be objects from which good things come. The paintings, photography and signs artworks are mediators between the physical and spiritual worlds. They are artifacts of both.

photography print on canvas, 2008

Other works: 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7

Kaori Yamamoto
hasituumasoyogukaze@yahoo.co.jp

Beauty is instability is pursued from person's feelings and sense

untitled

Other works: 2

Jennifer Vignone
jennifervignone@earthlink.net

Everything takes time, effort and openness. My work represents my journey and committment to examine the world around me, and both the personal and epic events that occur.

I am constantly reminded through life's events that process is so crucial to growth and that process wears many masks and takes on so many forms. For the creator of a book, painting , drawing or print the process is often more important than thefinished piece. It is the process, and its accompanying struggle, that pushes through anguish to revelation
hopefully when it strikes the right chords, my own struggle touches the thread that joins us all together.

"Elements"
lithograph, 2008

Other works: 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 -

Elizabeth Harington
bachinart@earthlink.net

Elizabeth Harington's artistic career spans more than half a century and her experience extends to both the printmaking painting and the musical arts. Her extensive knowledge of music has led her to an intensive analysis of the musical notation of Bach's major works"The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the well tempered Clavier BWV 846-869, the art of Fugue BWV1080. The musical Offering BWV1079 and Two and in 2008 the Three part inventions.

Jody Dunphy
jody.dunphy@gmail.com

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Inherently sacred VIII
Collagraph, Monotype, Gold Leaf, Graphite, 2008

Other works: 2

Joyce Harris Mayer
joyceharrismayer@aol.com

In the year 2000, health issues forced me to abandon the large scale (6 foot etching press) monotypes and 7x10 foot oil paintings I had previously exhibited in a professional gallery. I began to explore the computer as a new way of creating images. I have come to feel that the computer is the most exciting tool ever invented for printmaking.

Lines, Space, Color
archival pigment digital print
2008

Other works: 2

Other works: 2