WOW Profiles XII

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Masha Ryskin and Timothy Massey

Masha Ryskin: Rochester, NY

Tea bags are a product of our everyday life. They are a record of people gathering, having conversations, eating. Tea bags speak of history, fragility, meditation.

I combine traditional art and craft materials and processes with tea bags and other objects of everyday use. I emphasize the tactile quality of the pieces, as well as the concepts of layering, transparency, and mending. The thread is used both as a means of putting elements together and as a drawing tool. By using sewing, drawing, and printing, I transform the ordinary materials while preserving their importance as objects of everyday rituals.

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Masha Ryskin has been teaching at Brockport since 1997 with a one year break when she received a Fulbright to Norway. She has taught such courses as Visual Art Experience, 2-D Design, Drawing, and Painting. She participated in a residency and exhibition in Oslo, Norway, in January 2001.

Masha Ryskin's work involves combining traditional art processes with materials and objects of everyday use, such as tea bags and drier sheets. "My pieces deal with the concepts of layering history and change," she states. In teaching, Ryskin is concerned with giving students enough knowledge and skills so, which they can then apply to their own projects and their own ideas.

In addition to working and exhibiting internationally, she is also a musician and plays in the Balinese Music group at Eastman School of Music.
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Timothy Massey: Rochester, NY

The process of making art is perpetually grounded in change, adjustments in attitudes and the way one views his or her inner and outer world

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WOW Profiles XI

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Jennifer Hecker & Lori Mills

Jennifer Hecker: Brockport, NY


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horsefeathers
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Jennifer Hecker will present the third lecture, discussing her personal experiences as a contemporary female sculptor and her exhibition, Cycles, which will be on view on the grounds of the estate concurrent with the lecture series. Hecker, an associate professor and former chairperson of the art department at the State University of New York at Brockport since 1989, is a 1999 recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and is an accomplished sculptor in her own right. In her approach to sculpture, Hecker prefers to push beyond the confines of tradition. Her materials often are experimental and the finished product often is large in scale and installational in format (set in a certain place or condition).




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Lori Mills: Brockport, NY

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at the sydney 2001 teapot show

WOW Profiles X

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Abigail Ortu Hendrickson, Phillip R Hendrickson.


Abigail Ortu Hendrickson: Amherst, MA

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Phillip Hendrickson: Amherst, MA

"Objects and images that we accumulate and surround ourselves with are an expression of who we are as human beings. The idea of an accumulated personal archive as a metaphor for human identity and the subconscious has led me to collect objects and images that I reshuffle and recombine into works of art. Re-contextualizing imagery in this manner is loosely modeled after the game 'Six Degrees of Separation'; I create compositions informed by personal associations."

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Untitled (S), Mixed Medium On Blueprint, © 2004,
Phil R. Hendrickson

Phil Hendrickson received his BFA in printmaking from SUNY College at Brockport, NY. He is originally from the Binghamton, NY region. Phil’s work has been shown in various places such as ENMU-R Gallery in Roswell, NM, State University Plaza in Albany, NY, and 808 Gallery in Boston, MA. He has received numerous awards and honors such as; the GOARTS solo exhibition award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center Scholarship, and the William Stewart Scholarship. Hendrickson’s work can be found in the collections of the Rush Rhees Library in Rochester, NY, the Drake Memorial Library in Brockport, NY, and the Wallace Library in Rochester, NY.


Magnethead screenprint woodcut, linocut collage on paper

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WOW Profiles IX

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Brian Jones, Marilyn Whitesell and Donna Stallard

Brian H. Jones: Louisville, KY

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Brian H. Jones is Professor of Fine Arts, in the areas of Printmakng, Drawing, and Art Theory. He received his BFA from Indiana University in 1975, and his MFA from the University of Cincinnati, in 1977. His work has been exhibited in over 30 solo exhibitions and in over 125 international, national, and regional exhibitions, receiving numerous awards at each level. Brian’s work is further represented in museum, university, and corporate collections throughout the country. The recipient of over 15 individual artist fellowships, Brian has been a Fellow to such programs as the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. As a teacher and creative researcher, Brian has received five University teaching awards and the University’s Outstanding Research and Creativity Award.

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Child's Play Fossil, Intaglio, 1998 © Brian H. Jones
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Marilyn T. Whitesell: Louisville, KY

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The Graphic Design concentration was added in 1999 as part of the Fine Arts program with the addition of Marilyn Whitesell. This relatively new program has had success in attracting students from both Kentucky and Indiana. Students with two year associates degrees from surrounding schools have returned to school to concentrate in graphic design and earn a four year degree. The program has been successful in placing its talented students in internships where they have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in the field before graduation. Mrs. Whitesell's background is in print and multimedia design and is able to share her knowledge of the field and personal expertise with her students. She is also involved in digital printmaking and exhibits regionally and nationally.

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Donna Stallard: Louisville, KY

Donna Stallard is our newest addition to the collegiate and Arts Institute faculty. Ms. Stallard holds a Mater of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Dallas, Irving, and a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University Southeast. She has received several commissions, including the Leon & Marian Rand Commission, on display at the Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center on the IU Southeast campus. Ms. Stallard comes to IU Southeast from North Lake College in Irving, Texas, where she taught classes on art appreciation, stained glass, printmaking and drawing to a broad range of culturally diverse students.



RB#6, SIV/WAF By Donna Stallard

WOW Profiles VIII

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Nele Zirnite & Laura Ruby

NELE ZIRNITE was born in Lithuania in 1959. Studied from 1978 to 1982 at Vilnius Art Institute ( Lithuania) and from 1982 to 1984 at Latvian Academy of Arts ( Riga, Latvia ). Since 1988 is member of Union of Artists of Latvia. Since 1985 - teacher of graphic art. Presently employs etching technique in her works. She participated in various art Exhibitions in Europe and USA and has many awards. Her works was distinct and placed in Album " The Best of Printmaking", Rockport Publishers - Gloucester, USA, where placed works of 250 best graphic Authors from all World..
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http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/zirnite/zirnite.html

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review Lithuanian printmaker Zirnite makes velvety dreamscapes containing imagery whose originality is an order of magnitude above the norm. She makes them with a needle, pressing millions of microdots into a metal plate that can take up to two years to complete.

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Laura Ruby - Lecturer in Art, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Courses: History of Contemporary Sculpture, Theory and Criticism of Art, Time and the Arts

See: Stage Set--Mise en Scene, Site of Passage--Chinatown 1, Site of Passage--Chinatown 2, Cromlech and more.

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My "Nancy Drew Series" of screenprints takes as its primary reference the fictional detective, Nancy Drew, the subject of an extremely popular series of books in American culture. The character Nancy Drew represents the independence and problem-solving intelligence of the detective figure, while also alluding to the independence, creativity and determination of the artist. The first obvious punning relationship is in the name, Drew, but the series of prints employs both playful and serious multiple visual and verbal interactions in its concept and design.


The multiple levels of visual/verbal interplay incorporate references to the tools and processes of art making, including allusions to numerous codes and sign systems. For example, The Clue of the Black Keys contains historical and contemporary musical notational systems (including Chopin's "Black Key Étude") and a typewriter schema; while The Clue of the Tapping Heels contains Morse code and The Secret of the Brass Bound Trunk includes semaphore. Each individual print, of course, includes far more imagery and conceptual material in addition to these notational systems, and as a series the prints have much interplay and interaction of concept and imagery. Other subject matter includes such popular culture elements as comedy films, mystery films, popular music and others.

My "Nancy Drew Series" encourages viewer involvement in the search for clues and understanding. One major theme of the series is the acknowledging of the artist/detective as maker and the viewer as an involved participant in the detection.

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FEB 2003

Laura Ruby, a printmaker whose works will be exhibited in the Denison University Art Gallery starting on Friday (Feb. 21), will visit Granville to meet guests at the opening reception and to work with students during her stay.She will open her visit with a lecture about her artwork at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday (Feb. 20) in the Cleveland Annex (Mulberry Circle).

Ruby has created the "Nancy Drew Series," silk-screen prints that parody the concept of the mystery novel. A resident of Hawaii, Ruby's prints are rich with integrated literary allusions, along with cultural and artistic metaphors that are intended to give the viewer clues associated with the title of the piece. Ruby also will be working in the Cleveland Hall print studio during the weekend creating a work which will become part of the Denison Library collection.

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"Breaking New Ground: Explorations in Digital Printmaking" showcases a variety of approaches artists are taking in digital printmaking.

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Laura Ruby paints a giant gecko that will be displayed with 49 others during Geckos In Paradise, a charity event and art exhibition organized by Kapi'olani Health Foundation, the fund-raising arm of Kapi'olani Medical Center. Ruby's fiberglass lizard is five feet long and weighs 35 pounds.

WOW Profiles VII

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Robin McCloskey and Kathryn Reeves


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Robin McCloskey received her MFA in Printmaking from Pennsylvania State University. McCloskey's experimental work won the Gold Prize in Printmaking in the 8th International Print and Drawing Biennial in Taipei, Taiwan in 1997. She recently produced a series of large-scale prints at Trillium Press. This series of nine prints titled Sequoia Sempervirens was presented at the Sonnenschein Gallery in the Chicago Her work was also included in a collaborative portfolio titled Walking on Water, organized by Debra Fisher from SUNY-Brockport. Robin exhibits her work nationally on a regular basis and teaches printmaking throughout the state of California.
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Wedding Night by Robin McCloskey

Wedding Night reminds us that seduction can mark the beginning of a much greater adventure. The tiny newlyweds in the right-hand corner stand in a fragile house, threatened by a turbulent sky and waves lapping at the doorstep. On closer inspection of this dark dreamscape, we notice that the background is full of playing cards—mostly hearts and diamonds (appropriately enough.) These cards imply that romance is part strategy, part chance. "The figures depicted are my grandparents on their wedding day," explains artist Robin McCloskey. "The playing cards, the nocturnal setting and the scarcely visible boat are intended to symbolize the mystery of the journey on which they are about to embark."
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House of Memories: A detail from Robin McCloskey's "First Communion" demonstrates the photographer's use of a variety of techniques, including etching and aquatint, in a single piece

"In a somber, sadder-but-wiser vein, Robin McCloskey delivers the goods. In a series that stretches the definition of a photographic work to incorporate various combinations of photo-etching, etching, monotype, hand coloring and collage, McCloskey creates a sense of personal, internal experience nearly swallowed by a harsh and indifferent world."
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Lake Forest, Ill.— An exhibition of prints by nationally recognized artist Robin McCloskey will open in the Sonnenschein Gallery at Lake Forest College on Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 7:30 p.m.
The exhibition will feature McCloskey’s Sequoia Sepiverens prints inspired by California’s redwood forests. McCloskey combines hundred-year old print techniques, nineteenth-century photographic processes, and contemporary practices, including computer-manipulated imagery. This allows her to layer the present with the past, and the experimental with the traditional, in terms of content and technique. Many of her Sequoia Sepiverens prints measure 7’ by 3’ and hang like large scrolls, showing the influence of Chinese landscape painting. Art students from the College will curate the exhibit.
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Kathryn Reeves: West Lafayette, IN

Kathryn J. Reeves is an Professor of Art at Purdue University. She received her B.F.A. in 1974 from Miami University of Ohio, studied drawing at Harvard University in 1975, and received her M.F.A. from Drake University in 1981. She has shown in over 100 international, national, and regional exhibitions, and her work is included in many public collections in the U.S. Her work was selected for inclusion in The Best of Printmaking: An International Collection, Quarry Books, Gloucester, 1997. At universities across the country, she has lectured and conducted workshops in lithography and intaglio printmaking. She has served on the faculties of Drake University and Iowa State University, and has worked at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. She served on the Board of the Southern Graphics Council and is an elected member of the Society of American Graphic Artists. As well as serving from 1991-1994 as a Board Member, Reeves was the 1996-1998 President of the Mid America Print Council. The MAPC has an international membership and is devoted to research and education concerning fine art original prints. Reeves served on the Board of Directors of the American Print Alliance from 1997-1999.

"Schoolhouse"
Slate, chalk, found offset lithographs, and found objects


"A Little French Lesson"
Intaglio and Acrylic


"Mary Bowman’s Copybook: Command You May Your Mind"
Monoprint, silk-screen, collage, ribbon
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WOW Profiles VI

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Juli Haas


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Juli Haas was born in Chelsea in Victoria in 1952 and studied at Caufield Institute of Technology, Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and Monash University. She is a highly successful Melbourne based print maker and watercolourist who has held numerous exhibitions since she started exhibiting in 1990 including many overseas. She has been awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize, the Silk Cut Award, the Shell Art Prize and many other acquisative awards and commissions both in Australia and overseas.

Her distinctive figurative works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, numerous regional galleries, and private and corporate collections throughout the world.

"Juli Haas employs allegorical imagery to create a fantastic and ambiguous world through which she can provide a commentary on social behaviour, particularly on the role of women in contemporary society. The surreal dream-like imagery, laced with wit, whimsicality and a latent eroticism, creates a popularly accessible visual language, rich in its theatricalism, vibrant colours and dramatic appeal" *Sasha Grishin "Australian Printmaking in the 1990's"

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Juli Haas, highly successful Melbourne based watercolourist and print-maker, has exhibited in over 100 countries and has been awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize, the Silk Cut Award, the Shell Art Prize, the Acquisitive Award by the Hawaii State Foundation, and numerous others.

Her highly distinctive & rich imagery is in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of NSW, numerous regional galleries, and private and corporate collections throughout the world.

Haas’s artwork can be dark and menacing, but there is also a strong undercurrent of humour and irony. Entire stories seem to be contained within a single image- her famously detailed pictures engaging the viewer within a world in which there is always something new to observe. So much is packed into a single painting or print. Haas is one of those artists for whom the imagination is an endless supply of inspiration.

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"the prints of darkness"

"Haas, 53, left her art degree unfinished in the '70s, did odd jobs, got married, had three children and then returned to study in the '80s where she completed a masters of art at Monash University. She has had several solo exhibitions here and overseas and contributes to exchange folios where up to 40 artists put in prints for collections. The day of the interview she received a box of prints, including one of hers, from the State University of New York, which will exhibit and tour the collection that has as its theme, Walking On Water."

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last dance

Making a striking presence are the works of the imaginative artist Juli Haas. Terminus 1991 and Last Dance 1995 are both representative of Haas's rich idiosyncratic depictions that have been skilfully adapted to the artists' book medium. These works have a particular focus on the ironic elements of life and, although often dark and menacing, they possess a great vitality in execution.

artist books in the deakin uni collection

WOW Profiles V

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Andy English and Jean Lodge.

Andy English: England

East Anglian wood engraver (member of Society of Wood Engravers, Wood-Engravers Network USA). Work mainly independent limited-edition prints (each one an original artist's print numbered and signed) or illustrations. Also bookplates. Themes: childhood, gardens, the Fens, relationship between people and rural environment. broughton house

Wood Engraver - Studio diary

The albion press restoration blog

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A very nice presentation of John Keats poem with wood engravings by Andy English. Bugra endpapers. Poliphilus and Blado with Goudy Text for display in violet and black on Zerkall Book White Wove. 7 by 5 inches [178 by 127mm]. 36 pages. Quarter violet cloth and decorated printed paper over boards, with spine label. Frontispiece, two smaller engravings within the text, a tailpiece, and the press device are by Andy English. Edition of 115 copies.
http://www.califiabooks.com/finepress/b/barbarian.html

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Andy English

"The Hidden Pool" Woodengraving

The Hidden Pool, like almost all of my work, relates to a place that has special significance to me. I pass these trees most days. They make a graceful group. However, if one walks across the field to reach them, there is a small pool of water and the mood changes to a hidden and mysterious spot. I could not find a large endgrain block that I could afford where the wood was proven to come from a sustainable source so, rather than make the print smaller, I engraved on a from Lawrences of London, which I built up to type high with mdf.

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Jean Lodge: England

Characteristics of the American printmaker (now based in Paris and Oxford) Jean Lodge’s work are constant innovation, an extraordinary mastery of mixed techniques and a fascination with the human face. She was for 17 years Head of Printmaking at the Ruskin in Oxford, and has spent time in Japan with hand papermakers and printmakers. Now she concentrates on her own work, while giving workshops in the USA, in her Paris studio and on behalf of the gallery at our northern outpost at Castle Farm in Arkengarthdale.
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NYC/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York Printmaking Project Organized by Maddy Rosenberg, Independent Curator, New York City, and Devorah Boxer, Vice President, Le Trait, Paris. This exhibition brings together the works by 18 American artists and 18 French artists to highlight the role of the artist printmaker and the contrasts between the American and the French approach to the medium. The artwork included will span printmaking from the traditional to the more unconventional, with techniques ranging from intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen to photo and digital processes. American artists include Desiree Alvarez, Kumi Korf, Hillary Lorenz, Florence Neal, Miriam Schaer, among others. French artists include Louis-Rene Berge, Yves Jobert, Helene Laffly, Jean Lodge, Marie-Antoinette Rouilly Le Chavallier, among others.
October 14, 2005 - December 3, 2005

The Center for Book Arts Gallery is located on the third floor at 28 West 27th Street, Manhattan. Our beautiful exhibit cases are always filled with exciting work, and you are welcome to come to see it. http://www.centerforbookarts.org/
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The Brooklyn Arts Council hosts New York/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York, simultaneous exhibitions in New York and Paris showcasing prints and print-derived artists' books from eighteen contemporary American artists and eighteen of their French counterparts from Le Trait, a leading printmaking organization in Paris.
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WOW Profiles IV

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Nancy Kellar, Kurt Kemp & E. C. Cunningham

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Nancy Kellar: Granville, Ohio

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Kurt Kemp: Sonoma, CA

Professor of printmaking, Sonoma State University
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Kurt Kemp’s brightly colored images of surreal human and animal hybrids, made with truncated and mismatched limbs, are the artist’s expression of human relationships with all their painful pitfalls and joys. He describes his work as a cross between contemporary pop culture and late 19th century poetry; full of dark absurdity, twisted irony and a delight in the ridiculous.
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E. C. Cunningham: Denver, CO



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Printmaking: A Primary Form of Expression
by Eldon E.C. Cunningham
The lives and works of thirty-two artists who have chosen printmaking as their major means of creative expression are brought together in this stunning volume. All of the artists included in Printmaking are "self-published" in that they print their own images in editions of fewer than fifty impressions or they execute works that are one-of-a-kind in nature. In every case, the artist is responsible for the entire process - - from conceptualization to design, production, and eventual distribution.

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WOW Profiles III

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Helen C Frederick and J ames Engelbart

Helen C. Frederick

The View is Daunting

2002 Lithograph

Helen C. Frederick is founder and director of Pyramid Atlantic, Inc. in Riverdale, Md. Her recent solo exhibitions include The View is Daunting, University of Georgia (2002); Suspension/Scieran, Southwest Center for Art and Craft in San Antonio (2000-01); and MASSE ICI, Texan Ivy Fine Arts, Orlando, Fla. (1997). Her works are included in public collections, both nationally and internationally, including the National Gallery of Art, the Fogg Art Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2000, Frederick was honored with the Governor�s Award for Outstanding Maryland Artist. In addition to directing Pyramid Atlantic, Inc., she has worked for the last twenty-two years as a curator, lecturer, and visiting artist at various colleges and universities. She received her BFA and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Born in Pottstown, Pa., in 1945, Frederick currently lives and works in Maryland.

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Pyramid Atlantic is a 501(c)(3) non-profit contemporary arts center dedicated to the creation and appreciation of hand papermaking, printmaking, digital arts, and the art of the book. For nearly 25 years, Pyramid has provided opportunities for the discovery and creation of these fine arts through imaginative programming for people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. An artist-centered community with an international and local following, Pyramid Atlantic brings print and paper arts to people all over the world.

Pyramid Atlantic was founded in 1981 by noted artist and teacher Helen C. Frederick to provide a setting for artistic collaboration and dialogue. Since then, Pyramid has played a critical role in the art world by:

• hosting hundreds of artists in residence
• developing outreach programs for students and the community
• offering classes for artists of all levels
• producing and publishing numerous print and artist book editions
• conserving and collecting works on paper
• curating exhibitions both locally and throughout the world
• providing professional development programs for teachers

Pyramid Atlantic receives federal and state funds as well as generous support from private foundations, corporations, and local businesses. In addition to this funding, we count individual donors and members among our most valued supporters.

At Pyramid, tradition and innovation go hand in hand. In 2003, Pyramid relocated to the heart of the Arts & Entertainment District in downtown Silver Spring, MD. The new facility features a paper mill, print shop, letterpress studio, bindery, and cutting-edge digital studios.

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When James Engelbart says he makes portraits, he’s not telling the whole story. Every face is obscured by something — a hand, a comb — that adds an element of the unknown to his lithographs. Because he didn’t want to make his friends sit for an hour while he carved their likenesses, Engelbart ended up being the model for his own prints. "They’re not really supposed to be me, but they are, out of necessity." Expect about 20 stone and wood prints by the veteran of the now defunct Zone One gallery, including still-lifes of Mexican figurines (portraying chickens playing tambourines, for example) which he says were the predecessors of the modern Chia Pet. As of press time, Engelbart says there’s a possibility he’ll debut some excerpts from Parmenides for the Young, a children’s book he’s working on which apparently will combine "being and non-being" with "This Little Piggy Goes To Market."

April 20 through May 15, 2001
University of the Arts, 333 S. Broad St., 6th floor Printmaking Gallery,

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At present, James Engelbart is Conservator/Bookbinder (and Supervisor) in the Collection Care Department of The Free Library of Philadelphia. His lithographs and artist's books are represented in both public and private collections and have been shown in both solo and group exhibitions, as such places as Zone One (Philadelphia), The University of the Arts Printmaking Gallery, Kamin Gallery (University of Pennsylvania), Art in City Hall (Philadelphia), Dartmouth College Art Gallery, and Minnesota Center for Book Arts. With Rosae Reeder (1995) he organized Thesaurus: A Book Exchange (among alumni and faculty of the MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program).
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WOW Profiles II

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Rosemarie Bernardi and John E. Roberts from Keene State College, 229 Main St. Keene, New Hampshire, USA

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Associate Professor of Printmaking
Rosemarie Bernardi

Associate Professor Bernardi received her MFA in Printmaking in 1977 from the University of Cincinnati. Before coming to Keene State College in 1998, she taught at three universities. She was tenured as an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware in 1985. From 1988-1998, at the University of Arizona she supervised undergraduates and graduates in her capacity as the Area Coordinator of Printmaking, and where she was tenured in 1993.

Professor Bernardi’s areas of specialization are in Alternative Printmaking and Etching. She teaches a range of courses, from beginning drawing to Senior Seminar and is particularly interested in Post-Modern methods and concepts in contemporary art. Her studio work involves research into photo-etching and mixed-media work involving drawings, prints and texts. Thematically her work involves poetic interpretations of images culled from the figure and most recently from medical museums around the world.

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Rosemarie Bernardi
Bearing Water: Prints and Drawings
April 4 - 28, 2006
Opening: April 4, 3:30 - 6 p.m.
with artist's talk at 4 p.m.

Special Hours for First Friday, April 7, 6-8 p.m





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Professor of printmaking
John Roberts: Keene, NH





Professor John E. Roberts has taught at printmaking, drawing, foundation design and painting at Keene State College since 1981. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1977. Over the last 23 years, his personal engagement with printmaking has focused upon the intaglio process. While he has have taught almost every printmaking process during his career, it is in the intaglio medium that he has done the most research.

Professor Roberts is currently working on a series of large drawings and etchings that utilize found objects (primarily corroded metal from automobile exhaust components) as starting points. The work takes full advantage of the organic ambiguity of these unusual pieces of rusted metal. Not only do he draw from these but in many cases he has been able to actually ink and print the objects as part of the etchings and monotypes. The resulting prints and drawings are highly abstract images but reflect uncertainty in their form and conceptual meaning.

WOW Profiles I

This series of posts previews the artists participating in the walking on water portfolio (WOW). This post features Yuji Hiratsuka and Margaret Prentice of Eugene, Oregon, USA

Yuji Hiratsuka: Eugene, Oregon

Born in Osaka in 1954, Yuji Hiratsuka graduated from Tokyo Art Teacher's University in 1978. He received an M.A. from New Mexico State University in 1987 and an M.F.A. from Indiana University in 1990. The artist has spent the last decade in the United States, where he has had more than 40 one-man shows. His work suggests Ukiyo-e, brought up-to-date with Western clothes. Bright colors and whimsical depictions further characterize his distinctive style.

The prints are labor intensive works which start as etchings with drypoint, aquatint and softground printed on thin Kurotani paper. Hiratsuka makes continuous alterations to the plate, adding a series of colors. He then applies delicate hand tints to the back of each print and finishes with "chine colle" in which glue is applied to the Kurotani. The Kurotani is then backed with heavy rag paper, both passing through a press to bond the papers together. In effect, each print is an artist's proof or monoprint because of the continuous plate alterations and hand finishing. Editions are small: never more than 50 in number.

Yuji Hiratsuka work is represented in numerous collections including: Tokyo Central Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, The British Museum and the Achenback Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco.
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The artist uses a special printmaking technique, a mixed media combination of Chine Collé with etching. Again, Yuji Hiratsuka himself gives a perfect description of this time-consuming printing process that requires a lot of skill and experience.

"My personal technique using Chine Collé with traditional and innovative etching is the following: With continuous alterations to a copper plate I print a sequence of black, yellow, red and blue, passing the same plate through the press for each design and color change. To start with; the first tones to the plate are given with line etching, drypoint, aquatint, softground, photocopy transfer or roulette. I pull my first color. With these first impressions, I work back into the plate with a scraper, burnisher and emery paper to enhance the lights and accent the motif. I then go on to the second, third and fourth colors. Finally, the print is completed from the back with a relief process of woodcut or linocut to intensify shapes and/or colors. I print on the paper which best suits my work; this is a thin Japanese paper known as Toyama Kozo (Japanese Mulberry). As in the French use of Chine Collé I apply glue to the back of the Kozo print and pass it through the press, with a heavier rag paper (BFK Rives or Somerset, etc.) beneath. What the viewer sees; is my four color intaglio print saturated with subtle tones that come through the back of a Toyama Kozo paper which is set deep into a rag paper."

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Margaret Prentice: Eugene, Oregon
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uni of oregon dept of art

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These are the sketches for two paintings that I have made recently. They are both 56 x 76cm, the top in white acrylic on black paper, the bottom is a brush and ink drawing. The paintings (in colour) are one by one and a half meters in size.

Some time ago I was invited to participate in a print exchange themed "walking on water". The project inspired a continuing series on the theme of water whcih I am still working on.

This is a closeup of one of the plates from the walking on water print.



Here is the Water installation on print australia. This is a boxed set of miniature prints that I made shortly after the project. Here in Amsterdam I have completed a set of experimental prints that continue the same imagery. A sample set of these are at Warringah printmaking studio for viewing. And here are the 'gracht' prints from the last miniature print exchange.

The water series includes a folio full of works on paper and paintings on canvas. An integral feature of the work is that it explores the use of geometric abstraction with particular emphasis on line and dots. This is an extension of the printmaking issue of providing 'tone' in black and white.

The most recent work is a video, coming soon.

walking on water

October 4 - 30
Walking on Water Print Exchange
An international printmaking portfolio exchange,
organized by Department of Art chair
Debra Fisher,

Tower Fine Arts Gallery

Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 4, 4 pm

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