MATRIX PRESS: Master Prints Exhibition

Work by John Armstrong

MATRIX PRESS: Master Prints is currently on view at the Emerson Cultural Center in Bozeman, MT.
Exhibition reception is February 11th from 5-8 pm with a gallery talk by James Bailey
Click here to see photos of the installation.

This exhibition includes approximately 39 prints created through MATRIX Press, by nationally recognized artists over the course of the past twelve years. The prints from the MATRIX Press collection represent a broad range of artistic and technical approaches to the print.

Artists represented in this exhibition include those who have continued the activist tradition of printmaking such as Richard Mock, best known for his cutting political prints that appeared in the New York Times Op-Ed section from 1980-1996 and Miriam Schapiro who was one of the pioneering artists in the Feminist Art movement to Tom Huck, known for his intricately cut woodcuts inspired by the likes of Albrecht Durer. In addition, Colorful abstractions by Arizona artist and past UM alumni John Armstrong show a softer approach to the medium with his whimsical forms, which often reference the landscape. Chicago based artist Tony Fitzpatrick utilizes 50’s style tattoo art in his color etchings, while Canadian Artist Peter Von Tiesenhausen’s boat forms float mysteriously on metallic fields.

Laura Bergman (printstallations)

Interesting range of works. Lots of things by clicking here.

Printmaking Exhibitions by UM Graduate Students Stephanie Johnsen and Jack Metcalf

Jack Metcalf approaches art like it's the third act to a magic trick: the reappearance of an object after its disappearance. Last summer the University of Montana art graduate student discovered fliers hanging on campus with a snapshot of a drawing: a tortoise with the head of a bird. Underneath the photo of the drawing a note said: "Have you seen this drawing? Last seen in room 401 in flat drawer." Metcalf didn't recognize the artist or the drawing, but he took one of the posters back to his UM art studio in the basement of the Fine Arts building and created a drawing based on the lost piece.......
LINK TO FULL ARTICLE IN THE MISSOULA INDEPENDENT

Stephanie is also exhibiting in January at the ZACC. Opening reception is Friday January 14, from 5:30-8:30 pm.

PUNK ROCK PRINTING MOSH PARTY

THANKS EVERYONE FOR MAKING THIS A GREAT EVENT!!

Printing to the Dead Kennedys, Clash, X, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Black Flag and more, what else could you ask for?

Jet Set Graffiti

www.jetsetgraffiti.com



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrY06BTd9fM

MASTER OF LIGHT GOING THROUGH A DARK PERIOD.

Thomas Kinkade Mugshot

Thomas Kinkade DUI, Bankruptcy, Fraud – The ‘Painter of Light’ is apparently in a dark period. He has recently had to file for bankruptcy to escape retribution in relation to fraud charges in which the world-renowned painter was successfully charged with bilking galleries out of millions.

On June 2, 2010, one of Thomas Kinkade’s company,Pacific Metro LLC, filed for bankruptcy protection had to file for bankruptcy protection after art gallery owners successfully pressed fraud charges against the company. They, along with hundreds of other creditors, were said to be owed millions by the famous painter’s art empire. Kinkade is said to beone of the world’s wealthiest artist. He is certainly one of the most collectible artists in the world. He is known for homey landscapes and Christian motifs. Now, it seems, he will be known for a quick succession of legal problems.

Kinkade, 52-years-old is a native of Placerville, California. He was pulled over and arrested on DUI charges on Friday night, June 11, 2010, outside of Carmel, California, where he owns a home. This on the heels of his company’s legal troubles.

A Monterey County sheriff’s deputy stopped Kinkade for a minor traffic violation. According to the California Highway Patrol spokesperson, after an initial conversation about the violation, the deputy gave Kinkade a sobriety test, which he failed.

LA TIMES Article on his DUI. Click here.

Art in Its Own Light (Controversy) article.

The following are excerpts from eHOW on

Value of Thomas Kinkade Prints

Kinkade Prints

Kinkade stopped selling original paintings in 1997, wanting to keep his original collection together. Since 1997, Kinkade has sold lithographic reproductions of his work on canvas in an array of prices ranging from $300 to $15,000. Kinkade employs a team of painters that place highlights on each print, adding an individual touch and a texture more similar to oil on canvas paintings. Kinkade creates around 12 paintings a year as of 2010.

Warning

The mainstream art world does not hold Kinkade in high esteem. Contemporary dealers in the United States and worldwide consider Kinkade's work overly commercialized, appealing to low cultural values and poorly made. This is an opinion exemplified by Joan Didion, who wrote: "A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire." Accordingly, individuals interested in selling or valuing their Kinkade prints should stay within the Kinkade market.

Oil and Water Don't Mix

The Oil & Water Dont’ Mix poster by British designer Anthony Burill is printed with oil collected from the soiled beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. The limited edition posters ( 200 prints ) are being sold to support CRCL or The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the Gulf of Mexico’s coastal wetlands.

Click here to go to the site.

OIL & WATER DO NOT MIX from Happiness Brussels on Vimeo.

Homemade Press

Past UM graduate printmaking student Amanda Turpen, who now lives in New Orleans, recently built herself a hydraulic relief press.

You can check out more pictures of this press by clicking here.

Video on operating the press. CLICK HERE.

Do you feel lucky? PUNK!

That's right, its Clint Eastwood's immortal line, "...You've have to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?"
So why Dirty Harry. Because it's time again to GET DIRTY, and GET PUNKED for this years:

PUNK ROCK T-SHIRT PRINTING MOSH!

Thursday, December 9th starting at 6:30 pm. Bring T-shirts, fabrics and print paper to print on for both your own design and those of other artists. Costumes encouraged!
Please bring a potluck item, I"ll order us some pizza's.

Friends and family are welcome.

How playing cards were printed in the 15th century

Woodcut Printing 1450-1520

Woodcut Printing 1450-1520

Tugboat Press

More on TUGBOAT Press here.

Evan Lindquist

CLICK HERE OT SEE HIS ENGRAVINGS.

Patrick Gannon

Cut paper on wood.
Click here to see more.

Annie Bissett

Annie Bissett is one of the artists we looked at when we visited the Jundt. She does a lot of moku hanga prints.
Click here to learn more and see the process.

Yang Rui

More of Yang Rui's moku hanga prints here.

Peter Callesen

"Transparent God", 2009, cut paper

Lately I have worked almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with different meaning. The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works.

The paper cut sculptures explore the probable and magical transformation of the flat sheet of paper into figures that expand into the space surrounding them. The negative and absent 2 dimensional space left by the cut, points out the contrast to the 3 dimensional reality it creates, even though the figures still stick to their origin without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in many of the cuts.

See more interesting cut paper sculptural work by clicking here.

2010 Steamroller Print Project

Go to the Steamroller Print Project Blog to see additional photos by clicking HERE.

There are a few photos and the new video is now online.

Great job this year everyone.

-Jim

Claire Emery; Visiting Artist

Local artist Claire Emery discussing her work with students and demonstrating Japanese printmaking methods.

Click here to go to her website.