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Posted by Jason Urban on March 17th, 2010 | Kevin Haas is a print artist based in the Pacific Northwest whose work draws on the urban landscape: highways, parking lots, strip malls, and general sprawl. The way we navigate physical space is the subject of Haas’ pictorial space. Here are a few sample images to whet your appetite; you can see more on his website.
 Kevin Haas, I-5: Tacoma, 6-run lithograph on mulberry paper, 18″ x 28″, 2010, from the ‘Dream Day Drawing’ portfolio organized by Susan Belau and on view at SGC next week.
 I-90: Exit 291A, Lithograph on mulberry paper, 15″ x 18″, 2009.
 I-90: Exit 109, Lithograph on mulberry paper, 15″ x 20″, 2008.
Posted by RL Tillman on March 16th, 2010 | Fair warning: the website of French designer Vincent Perrottet may crash your browser. But before it does, you wil be treated to a series of delightful studio views and some nice installation shots to boot.
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Posted by amze on March 14th, 2010 | 
We were just sent these great installation photographs of Eva Wylie installing her work at Gallery Joe in Philadephia. The exhibition, titled appropriate manipulate duplicate is a group show of print/digital-related work. With the recent posting about Eva’s work here, I thought it would be fulfilling to see these in progress shots of her site specific screen print work.
The exhibit features the work of William Betts, Gil Kerlin, Ati Maier, Andrew Millner as well as Eva Wiley, and I should have a post covering all the work in the show in the coming weeks. This exhibit will be up until April 25th, so if you are in town for Southern Graphics try to catch this one.
Thanks to Holly Holly Hobby Hobby’s Anni Altshuler for this scoop.
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Posted by amze on March 14th, 2010 |
The Medium Resistance exhibition, probably one of the largest Indepent projects associated with Philagrafika, just opened in the Ice Box space of the Crane Arts building. Co-Curated by Richard Hricko, Philip Glahn and Nick Kripal. The three Tyler faculty have each drawn from their own expertise and interests to put together a show that draws from a gamut of talent, ranging from art start to local favorite. The curators describe the show as:
Medium Resistance examines contemporary works of craft and print that resist old-fashioned divisions of high art and artisanship, reassessing the mediums’ expressive, communicative, and material possibilities. Ceramic multiples and posters, digital images and books, to name just a few examples, straddle the lines between art, craft, and mass production, exploring each format’s potential for participation and dissemination, aesthetic, social, and technical labor.
This is very compelling show; in truth I’ve gone to see it three times and there is enough thought provoking work in the show to keep even my addled attention span engaged. Some of the work fits awkwardly into the cavernous Icebox space but for the most part the bulk of the show occupies the space better than anything in recent memory.
To see artist by artist shots follow the jump.
Continue reading Philagrafika 2010: Medium Resistance
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Posted by RL Tillman on March 11th, 2010 | 
“There’s Something Very Important I Forgot To Tell You” was a 2009 exhibit in Milan by Berlin-based artist Riccardo Previdi. The title of the show is a line from Ghostbusters; this piece is called Test. Printer calibration patterns culled from the Internet were printed on paper, which was crumpled and photographed. The photos were then reproduced on a plank of plywood.
Previdi’s work references print and pop culture in a cheeky exploration of mediated imagery, reproduction, and representation. The following images are taken from a 2008 show called C_YK – Black To The Future:
From the press release:
C_YK – Black To The Future connects an associative web around the culture- and design-history of print technology…Architectural interventions like the magenta coloured transparent foil on the gallery´s showcase changes the original perception of the gallery as a display for art. Looking through the foil, the magenta coloured surface merges with its surroundings as if the foil did not exist. The inner space of the gallery is divided by an additional yellow foil that changes the view of the wall beyond where “convolutions” of paper are installed. Only the mobility of the viewer allows the “real” consistence of the single elements that at the same time changes the view on the “Gestalt” of the others to be seen. The neon writing “C YK” is visible also from outside the gallery. The coloured and shiny letters C YK become a point of attraction, a cryptic code which simultaneously influences its surroundings…
All the single elements of the exhibition “C YK – Black To The Future” are autonomous objects, but seen as one whole, as an architectural intervention, they start to play with the idea of a constructivist stage of perception: C- M-Y- K.
Other projects of interest include Fraktur, an installation that references Gutenberg’s 1455 Bible, and The Last Desire, a series of public billboards.
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Posted by RL Tillman on March 10th, 2010 | 
Obsoletism, a screen print on canvas by Scott Campbell. This one’s for all those who fetishize antiquated technologies.
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Posted by RL Tillman on March 9th, 2010 | Long-time readers will remember that Printeresting was originally launched as “the thinking person’s favorite online resource for Jeff Bridges-related printmaking miscellany.” Well, despite our best efforts, that just wasn’t a sustainable business model.
But with an Academy Award in hand and a long-awaited Tron sequel in the works, Bridges is back in the news! So it’s time for a Jeff Bridges Print Update!
Oscars, Schmoscars! You have not “made it” until you have your own Shepard Fairey Parody Poster:
And a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is nothing compared to Another Shepard Fairey Parody Poster:
But then, there’s no shortage of Big Lebowski print merchandise. Why would there be, when it all sells out?
Tyler Stout Screenprint, SOLD OUT!
 Mediocre “Team Dude” Bowling Shirt, SOLD OUT!
The merchandise may sell out, but Jeff Bridges never will. Even when Jeff Bridges designed these T-Shirts for Quiksilver, a portion of the proceeds went to charity. Way to go, Dude!
I strongly encourage any Museum Curators to acquire this “Museum Quality Fine Art Print”:
Surprisingly, that’s all the Jeff Bridges Print News I could find. The marketing team for Crazy Heart could have used a country-style Hatch Show Print-inspired design, but they didn’t. And as far as I can tell, nobody’s producing limited edition lithographs of his insane drawings.
Surely there will be more news in the next… Jeff Bridges Print Update!*
*NOTE: There will not be a next Jeff Bridges Print Update.
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Posted by RL Tillman on March 9th, 2010 | 
From Creative Review, Ryan McGinness has created a tongue-in-cheek artist’s book entitled Studio Manual to accompany his new exhibit Studio Franchise in Madrid. The book details facets of his art production process, including “everything from a brand study and visual identity to corporate policies and detailed instructions on how to make Ryan McGinness art.”
 The exhibit is a recreation of McGinness’ studio environment executed according to a set of “franchise” guidelines.
As the primary drive of Ryan’s art practice concerns itself with the creation of and (re)production of original symbols, this new Madrid studio and the assistants will serve as symbols of the artist’s New York studio and as symbols of the artist himself. Furthermore, the studio and the assistants are not reproductions of the original, rather, they are productions based on the original. This is the essence of the franchise concept—not the deployment of reproductions or duplicates, but the production of originals created within a set of acceptable pre-determined guidelines—symbols with no referent, but that exist in their own right.
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Posted by RL Tillman on March 9th, 2010 | Prints are in fashion! John Welles Bartlett designed these window displays for Bergdorf Goodman in NYC:
 (Images from the artist’s website.)
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Posted by amze on March 8th, 2010 | 
Katie Baldwin’s recent exhibition in the Print Center is a mighty fine example of contemporary moku hanga wood block printing. The show covers three bodies of work, Throwing our Things in the River, Things left behind, and another selection of prints of images of box designs that seem contain oblique narratives. Each collection are moku hanga wood block prints (multi-block & hand-printed) often with letter press text overprinted. The prints intimate in size and are printed in small editions. The text below in an excerpt from the artist’s statement, and it enumerates the magical thinking that provides an interior structure of these strange and magical images.
My images create a visual narrative, bearing witness to both the ordinary and extraordinary events of human life. I work in series; my prints complete each other as a non-linear account that attests to the complexity of the human condition. In this work, I am utilizing a perspective based on multiple points of view. I am interested in challenging the unity of time by the defiance of scale and by showing several moments at once. Daily life intersects with themes of work, relationships, culture, natural disasters and dumb luck.
Continue reading Katie Baldwin
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