Tradigital Printmaking (Fine Art)

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Here are some of the images that are featured on my Blog which explores what printmaking artists are doing with regard to combining digital print with traditional printmaking techniques on my blogspot website

http://hybriddigitaltraditionalprints.blogspot.com/

MartensenDavid DuBoseMichiko SuzukiCandace Nicol and last but not least Mary Bookwalter

I have moved my blog over to my account on blogger.

I feel that the set up there is more suited to the nature of my project where categorization and “searchability” is pretty important.

I want for people to be able to view the images larger (where I have these available) and also to be able to, for example find all images that fit the category “inkjet and lino”.

So thank you so much to A.N.’s “Artists Talking” for having a phenomenon such as this, because it was what got me started, with an idea that I had had for quite a while

http://hybriddigitaltraditionalprints.blogspot.com/

I may use A.N. “artists talking” for another project in the future where I am focussed on something more intimate which, I think, is more, where its strength lies.

One of the places I thought I would be sure to find at least a certain amount of artists working on the 'edge' of printmaking technologies was the IPCNY (International Print Centre, New York). http://www.ipcny.org/
The IPCNY which has been up and running since the turn of the
century, mainly puts on exhibitions of contemporary printmaking although they occasionally show older works.

And I was right – I located several artists there, starting with Russell Crotty (USA), who has quite a presence on the internet, so I have just included a link here to his results on Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=… I was not, however, able to find examples of further 'tradigital" work by him.

The piece featured here is an inkjet with silkscreen and is circular, which seems to be a signature form of Crottys work. He is seriously interested in Astronomy and it influences his output considerably as a fine artist.

Next we see the work of Carroll Dunham, this one is intaglio and inkjet,
With a considerable curriculum vita it is hard to know what to say that might encapsulate what this artist is about. He makes artworks that have biomorphic feel and they are almost cartoon like. To me his work seems to issue from somewhere within the ‘zone’ of “Abstract Expressionism”. As with Russell Crotty there are numerous website references to his work and so it remains open to the reader as to where to look first though perhaps M.o.M.A., http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?… might be a good place to start. He has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has prints in their collection of ‘prints and illustrated book’.

Manuel Castro Cobos. Is an artist I seem to remember spotting in an art gallery when I was studying for my Masters in Barcelona. I seem to remember at that time that he made images that were very simplified almost mummy like icon/shapes. Perhaps they were paintings I cannot remember very well. This does seem possible as my research indicates that he is a artist residing in Cordoba ,Spain. He teaches in a University in that region. I find that there’s something I like about his work. This piece of his is a woodcut and digital print. I noticed another version of this print, in the Wrexham Print International 2007
http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/community/arts_c…
The two versions of this print, appear to be printed on diary pages which perhaps he has scanned and then printed out using archival inkjet pigmented ink.

Today’s post (and I am noticing that these are not frequent enough!!) is based on artworks found on a website of a gallery based in Iowa. It is http://www.olsonlarsen.com.' The gallery was originally established about twenty years ago or so and shows a range of professional fine artists with about 8 -10 printmakers out of a total of about 30 artists.

I am glad I gave it the 'once over' again as I came across a second artist on there of relevance.

To the first artist, a local, who is called Jeanine Coupe Ryding. There is no doubt from looking at her work that she is a stunning woodcut artist, creating abstract yet lyrical narratives – if that makes any sense. The two pieces that I have included here feature wood cut combined with inkjet.

Some of her other media of preference include photo etching with chine colle as well as collage and straightforward inkjet Prints.

The other artist I found at the Olson Larsen Gallery is
Timothy Frerichs, who like Jeanine the aforementioned tradigital artist, completed an MFA in Germany.
Just from browsing through Timothy’s work on the gallery website, it would appear that he is quite experimental with materials and not just in terms of printmaking which is mainly intaglio.
Drawing media include charcoal, pigment, encaustic, oil, and ink. Substrates include ‘collage on handmade paper’
‘ink on panel’, ‘collaged panel’
and ‘sandblasted glass’