Don't Miss Our February Shows!
Through February 24
Scott W. Parker: 10 years in New Mexico, Linoleum block prints
“Scott W. Parker: 10 years in New Mexico, Linoleum block prints”: This exhibition features a collection of compelling and lyrical multi plate relief prints by Santa Fe artist, Scott W Parker. Parker endeavors to consciously use imagination and skill in the production of aesthetic objects using the medias of painting, drawing and linoleum block printing. The series of actions, decisions or operations culminating in the work of a visible hand made representation after solving problems and difficult situations is what has kept Scott Parker entertained and making images for decades.
New Mexico: Living Relief |
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New Mexico: Living Relief" is an exhibition of contemporary artists of our region dedicated to relief printmaking, including those working in the southern part of our state. From below the 34th latitude are prints from Fred Barraza, Phillip Parotti, and Chris Bardey, all of whom were prominent in Silver City during last year's Southwest Print Fiesta. This show also follows the relief exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum last year -- "The Carved Line: Block Printmaking in New Mexico" -- which was organized in part by Santa Fe printmaker Scott Parker, who is having a solo show in the main gallery. Albuquerque and Santa Fe artists featured include Henry Morales, Mary Sweet, Jan Vanderburg, Mike Kimball, and Karsten Creightney.
Shows run from February 1st to
February 24th
February 24th
Upcoming classes
Combining Traditional Printmaking and Digital Transfers: February 23 and 24
$280.48
Combining Traditional Printmaking and Digital Transfers
Janet O'Neal
Saturday and Sunday February 23 and 24
2 day workshop
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Price: 260.00 + tax
(Price includes all materials except additional sheets of paper)
This comprehensive 2 day mixed media printmaking workshop will explore the process of combining digital inkjet transfers and traditional printmaking techniques such as monoprint, drypoint , etching and chine collé,linocut and collagraph. We will also explore printing digital images directly on printmaking paper then printing traditional plates over these images. Each student will learn the alcohol gel transfer process and experiment with creating layered prints by adding images from traditional printmaking plates. These unique layered prints can be further altered with mixed media processes. This integrative process will produce exciting one of a kind prints.
Some knowledge of printmaking and Photoshop helpful. You will need to bring collage materials, drawing materials and photographic digital images on a thumb drive and any printmaking plates you would like to use. We will have monotype plates available.
About the Instructor:
Janet O’Neal is a mixed media artist, fine art photographer, teacher and facilitator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. As a full time professional of 32 years, she has worked in watercolor, acrylics, collage, assemblage, sculpture, printmaking, photography and ceramics. Her work includes both the abstract and figurative. She is known for her highly colorful and energetic dimensional mixed media abstracts and found object assemblages. She has shown extensively across the U.S., and her fine art photography work has received both national and international awards.
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Carborundum Collagraphs: Creating collagraph plates from digital images March 16 &17
$264.29
Weekend Workshop
Instructor: Trish Meyer
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, March 16 & 17, 2019
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $245 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
In this innovative workshop, you’ll learn how to use digital images or drawings on polyester film to create a carborundum collagraph. This vastly expands the creative possibilities for carborundum printmaking, in which plates are normally created by painting with acrylic medium and adding carborundum grit.
This technique uses a light-sensitive film adhered to screenprinting mesh (often referred to as “EZ film”). This film is exposed to a positive transparency in a light exposure unit, and any unexposed film is washed out with water. To make the plate, Akua’s Carborundum Gel is pushed through the holes in the exposed mesh onto clear acrylic. Plates are inked up with Akua Intaglio or other suitable ink, and printed on an etching press on dampened paper.
To see this process in action, watch Akua’s video on YouTube and focus on the section titled “Making the Plate” (starts at 1:50):
Your instructor, Trish Meyer, is an experimental artist, printmaker and calligrapher with a background in graphic design. Visit her website at trishmeyer.com.
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New Directions in Monotype: Creative Techniques for Creative Explorations
$258.90
Instructor: Mary Sundstrom
Weekend workshop
Class dates: Saturday & Sunday, April 13 & 14
Class time: 10 AM – 5 PM, includes lunch break
Class fee: $240 + tax, includes all printing materials and one large paper (divided in quarters.) Additional paper may be purchased.
In this class, Mary will push you into new directionsto experiment with many different monotype techniques! Monotypes are one-of-a-kind prints made by applying and removing inks with a paintbrush or a roller onto a polymer plate and then printing the image onto paper. Additional layers can be created by applying another element to the plate and passing it through the press one or more times, resulting in rich, layered, complex prints. Inks can be wiped and scratched off, dotted on, applied or blocked with stencils and much more. We invite the experienced and the inexperienced to join us in this creative, wild journey into the nearly infinite possibilities of monotypes…
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Bookmaking: Link Stitch and French Twist Stitch - March 30th
$129.45
One-day Workshop
Instructor: Kimberly McCarthy
Class dates: Saturday March 30th
Class time: 10am - 5pm, includes lunch break
Class fee: $120 + tax
Learn the simple and elegant Link Stitch and French Twist Stitch in this beginner level bookmaking class. Discover the versatility of exposed bindings to create decorative elements and learn how to incorporate and transform cast off prints or drawings into beautiful books. This workshop is perfect for those interested in creating their own journal or sketchbook. Students will create one soft covered and one hard covered book. Basic materials will be provided for the duration of the class with additional materials available through the instructor. Students with prior bookbinding experience are encouraged to bring their own supplies.
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Photography & Etching as Sites of Interpretation and Deviation
$280.47
Two-day Workshop
Instructor: Lihie Talmor, Winner of the 5th Annual International Print Exhibition
http://www.talmorlihie.com/
Class Date: Friday & Saturday April 5th-6th
Class Time: 10am - 5pm, includes lunch break
Class fee: $260.00 + tax
This is a special chance to work with guest teacher Lihie Talmor. Talmor is an Israeli artist who divides her time between Israel and Venezuela and has shown her bold, thought-provoking work throughout the world. This comprehensive two-day workshop, we will explore how a printed image can shift from the photographic to the graphic mode and what can be gained from their combination. By working with two plates—the first etched from the projection of a photograph and the second made through traditional etching techniques, we will create a composite image that brings together photography’s power to record and etching’s power to invent. Participants should bring a digital file of a photographic image with which they wish to work. Knowledge of copper-plate etching techniques is useful, but not necessary.
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Take the Plunge: Printmaking with Akua Soy-based Inks - August 5th-7th
$409.93
3-day workshop
Instructor: Catherine Kernan
Class Dates: Monday - Wednesday August 5th-7th
Class Time: 10am - 5pm, includes lunch break
Class fee: 380.00 + tax
Through an intensive exploration of inks and ink modifiers, this workshop offers the context, information, and inspiration to create richly layered monotypes and monoprints, both as singles and in series using soy-based Akua inks. This workshop will focus on exploiting the possibilities of viscosity techniques to yield results that cannot be achieved any other way. Taking advantage of ink interactions and developing multi-color prints from layering inks on a single plate. It will cover many approaches, both traditional and experimental, including: trace transfer, reductive, additive, and viscosity monotype on a variety of matrices. We will explore resists as stencils and add dimension through relief blocks, stamps, texture tools and stencils. No toxic fumes and extended workability of the inks make it a liberating experience.
Artists new to printmaking and Akua Inks, as well as experienced printmakers are welcome. Extensive notes on printmaking topics and techniques will be available for a small additional cost.
Catherine Kernan is a nationally known printmaker specializing in the use of the non-toxic Akua Inks.
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New Grounds was one of the first completely non-toxic professional print workshops in the world. In business for more than 20 years, it is an internationally recognized institution dedicated to providing artists with press access, classes, exhibition opportunities and other printmaking related services.
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