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’
Today’s post shows prints found on Flickr which if you are unaware is a huge photo database. It’s used by a lot of artists of many calibers. For example the first two prints on view are by people who don’t seem to have printmaking as their main practice.
Moominsean aka Sean J Rohde is from Phoenix, Arizona and his main preoccupation, really seems to be more focused on toy cameras and old cameras as is evident if you visit his personal website. http://moominsean.blogspot.com/
However he has a collection of images on his Flickr album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/ though no further tradigital works that I could see. The work featured here, the first on this post, is untitled and described as inkjet on woodblock.
The next work is again found on Flickr, and is by Ida Kumoji (USA).
Its "Untitled" and described as linoleum & Digital inkjet print, Ida, seems to be mainly working in the design field so I couldn’t see any further examples of printmaking. Having said that, the website address is http://www.idaankrah.com for your curiosity/reference.
The work was entered to a print exchange with Print Zero Studios which was set up by Brian Lane and Jeremy Cody in 2003.
I did actually participate in one of these myself, a few years back.
Their own website seems to be currently offline however they use a Flickr photo album http://www.flickr.com/photos/printzerostudios/
as the window on all the exchanges and show the individual prints made and contributed towards each exchange.
The only thing that I could find out about Charles Mulligan III was that he is into playing golf. He’s the creator of this next print which is described as drypoint, inkjet and green tea (?) Again no title. This was another print exchange entry in one of the Print Zero Studios exchanges.
http://www.brunodavidgallery.com/index.cfm
One of my earlier discoveries, Carmon Colangelo
is a Canadian Born, American., who lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
The print featured here by Colangelo is described (presumably by the artist) as silkscreen on digital print.
Where inkjet is concerned , he uses a variety of printmaking processes usually using one technique, at a time, along with the digital print. These include collagraph, chine colle or as above silkscreen.
His work might be loosely described as figurative – abstract.
