I am pleased to announce my installation, “Into Eternity” is included in the exhibition Identity at the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery at Gainesville State College. And also included is Heidi Jensen who makes wonderfully strange yet beautiful drawings.

Three of my prints will be shown as part of this wonderful exhibition curated by Nancy Jo Haselbacher.

Join me Sundays during the month of May for demonstrations on intaglio printmaking at the Getty Museum. 11Am and 1PM. Its a short lecture/demonstration that is always a lot of fun! I show participants the process of printing, as you see in the photo here  as well as walk them through how etchings and engravings are made and share a portfolio of my prints as well.

Next week I will be in Philadelphia for the SGC International conference. The city will be swarming with printmakers for the conference and there will be even more exhibitions and events this year with the Philagrafika event! I will be sharing some of the events and areas where some of my work can be seen in the next few posts. Exactly a week from now you can get a print of mine at the Printeresting Copy JAM exhibition party. A great group of artists and a fun take on the print.

SPACE, the South Pasadena Arts Center presents its first Printmaking Annual. The show is guest curated by Scott Gandell, president of The Society of Illustrators who also created the illustration for the show card shown above. The show celebrates centuries-old and contemporary techniques. Linocuts, etchings and other styles are included in this visual feast of works on paper.

Artists include Jennifer D. Anderson, Scott Gandell, Peter Garnica, Gabriela Martinez, Susanne Mitchell, Carmen Daniel Schilaci, Ray Shui, Daniel Valdes, Katie VinZant, Tony Wong.

If you are attending this weeks LA Art Show, please check out my work and the other peices at the Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s booth. Cathy Weiss curated a few of my prints into this event and I am pleased to participate along with several other outstanding area artists.

Corporealities: Bodies in Question examines the enduring subject of the human form with the work of ten contemporary artists from across the US and Canada. Sometimes fractured and redolent yet altogether beautiful and haunting, these works subvert classical notions of the body using materials and processes both traditional and innovative.

Featured Artists Include:

Jennifer D. Anderson
Kelly Jo Ashbury
Kira Campbell
Megan Canning
Lois Epperson-Gale
Heidi Maddess
Victoria May
Mireille Vautier
Sande Waters
John Zimmerman

Conrad Wilde Gallery features contemporary painting, sculpture, and works on paper from emerging and established artists based locally and nationally. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment by calling 520.622.8997. Visit the gallery’s website for more information.

These are from a series of drawings that I have recently begun. Working with graphite and minimal collage on found ledger papers, I am focusing this series on poetic views of the baseline commonalities of human life: breath, digestion, blood flow and other life mechanics.

“When the skin becomes the paper for a text written by the body, the words are going to be ambiguous, and no statement will have a single meaning.” James Elkins

“The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. “ – David Antin

In printing and drawing images of simple communication, the dots and dashes of Morse Code onto images of skin on whisper thin paper, this work hints at the messages that are hard to decipher, those sensations coming from within. The skin continues to mesmerize me, as I feel we do not always consider or understand the mysteries that exist subcutaneously.

Working in a combination of traditional printmaking, digital printmaking, and drawing which allows me to create images that are mediated in different ways through technology and process. This relationship of the direct mark of pencil on paper controlled by the hand and the indirect nature of the digital image controlled by the artist through layers of technology and digital coding serves as a metaphor for the simplicity and complexity of the human form and its relationship with science.

These little prints are excursions into the sense modalities. The backgrounds are taken from pinhole photographs. Images of the body, soft muted tones derived from skin and hair. Overtop, wrapping around and through are images from the mechanics of the body. Juxtaposed together, these elements work as a visual poem about the complexities of the body.