Tonight from 6-9 is the opening of the exhibition entitled “Home” at the 100th Monkey Studio. The gallery is located at 110 SE 16th Avenue. Come check it out if you’re in the neighborhood. I have three large monotypes in the show.
For more information click this link:
http://www.the100thmonkeystudio.com/180349/329396.html
Hope to see you there.
Here is the latest print collage
“It Looks A Little Rough Out There Today”
9″ x 4 1/4″
As you may know, I am obsessed with woodblock printmaking. The reductive process of carving a block creates both a sculpture and a vehicle for ink transferal to paper. To me it is a reverse relationship. A puzzle. And these collages are realized in a similar manner. They are cut and laid out based on pattern, space and color relationship. They are constructed as a problem to be solved. Many of the elements incorporated in each collage come from my past woodcut and linocut prints. My work has been greatly inspired by comics and illustration, but also by Japanese woodblock printmaking. This collage, though not intentionally influenced, does remind me of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa”, by Japanese Edo Period printmaker Hokusai.
You can see from the border on top of the image. I have used it courtesy of http://www.katsushikahokusai.org/
I strongly urge you to check out the rest of his work.
Also, on the topic of Japanese printmakers. My favorite of all time is Toshi Yoshida. Especially his abstract work.
Here are a couple of examples borrowed from http://www.hanga.com/
Delightfull, 1973
Unknown, 1968
So Good.
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