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Posted by Jason Urban on March 12th, 2010 |  Sean Simmons
It’s March in Austin and SXSW excitement is palpable. Some people come for the music, some for the films, some for the interactive media but what I’m most excited about (print nerd that I am) is Flatstock 24. Started by the American Poster Institute, Flatstock is traveling poster show that hits Austin every year for SXSW. It’s a huge exhibition where everything is for sale. With an average price of $20 for a hand-printed poster, almost everyone leaves with something. Established poster veterans and young upstarts are on the scene showing work and mixing it up with each other and fans alike. All and all a great sense of community permeates the giant, table-filled hall. Here’s a full list of the more than 100 exhibiting artists who’ll be in Austin Thursday through Saturday of next week(3/19-3/20).
The big event at this year’s Flatstock 24 will be the a Smokey Robinson/Shepard Fairey poster signing in conjunction with the release of Fairey’s new Robinson poster.
Also, Serie Project, Inc is teaming up with Andy MacDougall of Squeegeeville to do live screenprinting demos for the public. As I understand it, one of the posters they’ll be printing is Sean Simmons’ winning design from The Great Texas Rock Poster Contest (see the picture above). Sean is a student at the Art Institute of Austin. Nice work, Sean!
A great Flatstock tradition is that many of the artists who show their work make posters to commemorate Flatstock itself. Here are pics pulled straight from the gigposters.com Flatstock 24 forum.
 The venerable Jay Ryan’s Flatstock 24 poster.
Continue reading I Can’t Wait for Flatstock 24
Posted by Jason Urban on February 26th, 2010 |  Schiff Geschicte, Silkscreen, 2010.
Michael Loderstedt is a Cleveland-based artist whose print work covers a broad range of subject and process. Schiff Geschicte, a recent sculptural printwork, is a screenprint dealing with the American artist’s ancestral connection to Germany. The form represents the ship that carried Loderstedt’s pregnant mother to the United States. The piece starts out as a flat, double-sided screenprint that is then cut and assembled to render a three-dimensional finished product. The exterior of the ship is adorned in German national colors overlayed with German text and the interior of the ship is overlayed with English text.
More pictures of the ship as well as Loderstedt’s own words on the piece after the jump.
Continue reading Michael Loderstedt
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Posted by Jason Urban on February 15th, 2010 |  Earthturf, Installation at Vox Populi Gallery, Silkscreen on the wall.
 Earthturf (Detail), Installation at Vox Populi Gallery, Silkscreen on the wall.
“Site-specific” is not a term commonly used to describe screenprints but in this case, it’s a valid descriptor. Eva Wylie makes beautiful accumulations, often silkscreened directly to the wall. She culls and edits images from the internet and other ephemeral sources to create elaborate webs of fantastical scenery. These two-dimensional landscapes scroll along the surface of the wall like carefully-placed shelves covered in bits and fragments of trivial ornamentation. By removing a traditional printing substrate from the equation, Wylie activates the white wall as space for collaged meandering. In stark contrast to most mural works which are designed to be read from a distance, Eva’s image strategy maintains a scale more typical of paper requiring close inspection to appreciate the layering and juxtaposition of elements.
More pictures of Eva’s work after the jump. And if you’re going to SGC in Phila, you can see her work in the Medium Resistance exhibition at Crane Arts.
Continue reading Eva Wylie
Posted by Jason Urban on January 21st, 2010 |  Quinton Gonzalez, Chicano 15, 2008.
Austin, TX is known for music so it’s not surprising that hand-screenprinted music posters are a big part of the local color. Wayne Alan Brenner wrote an informative article called The Art Is Formally Known as Prints for the Austin Chronicle back in early November about the scene. If you can forgive the title, it’s definitely worth a read. Brenner does a good job of documenting the lineage of recent Austin screenprinting. It’s a pretty tangled web but he manages to cut through it and tell a story of a vibrant community. In the article, Sam Coronado and his Serie Project get their due respect as a real force in the Austin print community so I decided I was long overdue for a visit.
Located in East Austin, The Serie Project, Inc. is “a non-profit Latino organization that produces, promotes and exhibits serigraph prints created by established and emerging artists.” Master Printer Sam Coronado started the Serie Project in 1993 after a visit to Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles. To date, Serie has trained countless printers and worked with over 150 artists. Assistant Director James Beard had some time to show me the shop and some prints.
 A gray day in Austin is pretty rare but that was the case back in December when I stopped by Serie.
Continue reading The Serie Project, Inc.
Posted by Jason Urban on July 22nd, 2009 | 
Elshopo celebrates the King of Pop with 200 silkscreened pancakes (or maybe crêpes).
Who is Elshopo? According to thier website…
Elshopo is an artistic collaborative platform founded in 2001 in Grenoble (FR) by three young artists. It’s a meeting place for art, design and economy wich is stongly oriented towards an artisanal and experimental practice of the silk-screen medium. Elshopo re-visits the universe of graphic industry and encourages the production of multiple art in order to set up a philosophy based on artistic exchanges and dynamic transmission of the knowledges. It’s the position that Elshopo has kept since the begining and will keep in the future too, even in the cyberspace.
See more of Elshopo’s edible printworks.
(via Karisa at WPG)
Posted by A FRIEND OF PRINTERESTING on June 25th, 2009 | This post authored by Leslie Mutchler.
Recently I was asked to be a Visiting Artist at Kent State University’s Summer Blossom Program in Printmaking. While there I was able to do a number of studio visits with printmakers working in a variety of media. One artist in particular stood out to me- a current graduate student in the Printmaking Department at KSU, Emily Sullivan.
Sullivan’s work exists somewhere between the real and the simulated; occupying spaces both large and small. Sullivan’s prints are not only bright, intense color studies- serigraphs of tidy lines, grid patterns, and geometric shapes- but are further processed- paper is cut and reassembled, scored and folded, manipulated into objects, landscapes and environments and then photographed and digitally printed.
Continue reading Studio Visit: Emily Sullivan
Posted by RL Tillman on June 22nd, 2009 | DIY-ers! Behold the well-named, kookily disorganized Screenulacra:
Project Screenulacra explores and develops different possibilities in Silkscreening. We embrace the Do It Yourself approach. Working on visual and technical transformation of already existing elements and combining the individuality of secondhand clothes with the character of silkscreen printing. The Project shares knowledge through workshops and connections with other groups.
Be sure to check out the interactive “How To Make” section (although it seems to be a work-in-progress).
“Screenulacra!” Names just don’t get any better than that.
Posted by Jason Urban on June 2nd, 2009 | Sean P. Morrissey is a print artist to watch. Amazing screenprint/digital works and he does print-based installations, too.
 Sean P. Morrissey, The Best Thing in the World, Silkscreen & Digital, 30″x22″, 2009.
Posted by Jason Urban on May 31st, 2009 | For fans of printmaking AND Flight of the Conchords, Tyler Stout has some new 5-color screenprints. He’s releasing them tomorrow (June 1, 2009) but you’ll have to check his site for more details. 
Posted by amze on March 12th, 2009 | 
As seen on the street in Philadelphia, a poster by Alex Lukas, an artist from the Space 1026 art collective (Thanks Mr.Kiji).
While it is hard to determine when this was hung-up the advice will probably have lasting appeal, at least into the near future.
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