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printmaker Bill Fick has curated the most comprehensive exhibition
of North Carolina print and book artists to date: PRINTED:
Contemporary Prints & Books by North Carolina
Artists. On display from January
18 to February 29, 2008, the exhibition will feature 43 artists
from across the state working in print and book making techniques,
including etching, relief prints, lithography, linocuts, woodcuts,
vitreography, screen prints, digital printing, mixed-media constructions,
and more. A special section of the exhibition will highlight several
North Carolina fine art and letter press studios such as Littleton
Studios, Horse and Buggy Press, and Blue Barnhouse Press. The exhibition
is sponsored by Lomax Construction.
The exhibition will amply demonstrate the vivacity and range of
the print community in North Carolina and the fascinating directions
that contemporary printmakers are exploring.
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The exhibition
opens to the public on Friday, January 18, at 6:00 pm
with a reception that is free and open to the public. Many of the
artists included in the show will be on hand for the reception. In
addition, some artists will be silk screening t-shirts during the
reception for purchase by visitors.
Included in the exhibition will be a series of lunch lectures
which will shed light on the techniques and ideas behind the work
and artists in the exhibition:
On Wednesday, January 23, at 12:30,
printmaker John Gall, who specializes in intaglio printing, will give
an introduction to common printmaking techniques. In addition to his
own print work, Gall is the founder of Avonwood Press based in Jamestown,
North Carolina.
On Wednesday, February 6, at 12:30, Assistant Professor
of Art at UNC-Charlotte John Ford will discuss his prints and talk
about his experiences working at print shops in Ireland and Eastern
Europe.
On Wednesday, February 20, at 12:30 the exhibition
curator Bill Fick will discuss the ideas that guided his choice of
work for the exhibition.
The final event of the exhibition will be an appearance by Drive-by
Press who will lead a printing workshop during ArtQuest’s
family night on Wednesday February 27 from 5-7 pm.
Drive-by Press is a completely mobile printmaking studio built to
“promote the growth and democratization of art through printmaking.”
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This exhibition also kicks off
Green Hill’s series of free teen workshops and family programs funded
through a generous grant from the Hillsdale Foundation.
Guest curator Bill Fick is the director of Cockeyed Press in Chapel Hill
which specializes in the production of satirical linocut prints. Currently
a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching drawing and design at Duke University,
over the past 15 years Fick has exhibited his prints internationally and
taught at many institutions across the United States including the University
of North Carolina at the Greensboro and Chapel Hill campuses, the Pratt
Institute, and Rutgers University. Fick’s work can be found in the
permanent collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the
New York Public Library, and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
In 1993 Fick was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist
Fellowship and in 1995 a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship.
In 2007 SECCA presented a solo exhibition of his recent work.
Included in the show will be printmakers associated with the renowned Littleton
Studios in Spruce Pines, North Carolina. Founded in the late 1970s by glass
artists Harvey Littleton, Littleton Studios specializing in the production
of vitreographs, vividly colored prints created using printing plates made
of etched glass. Among the printmakers included in the show will be Harvey
Littleton himself and Judith O'Rourke an expert in vitreographic printing
and the master printer at Littleton since 1987.
In addition, William Clements, a sculptor and printmaker working in western
North Carolina, will have work on display. Clements is the founder and director
of Asheville Standard Press, an artists-first, open-access workshop for
contemporary fine art printmaking.
Book artist Laurie Corral received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art
in printmaking and then branched out into letterpress printing and book
arts to further her work on paper. The winner of an emerging artist grant,
Corral book arts at both the Center for Book Arts in NYC and Penland School
of Crafts. She serves as the Director of BookWorks in Asheville, North Carolina.
Matthew and Heather Egan will also present work. The couple moved to the
United Arab Emirates in 2000 to teach, live, and create for five years.
Presently, they teach printmaking and foundations at East Carolina University.
Also included will be April Flanders whose prints have appeared in numerous
shows and are held in public collections across the US. Currently Flanders
is an assistant professor at Appalachian State University.
Also presented is Beth Grabowski, professor of art at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her
work explores aspects of identity and relationship as experienced from the
perspective of motherhood.
The full list of artists and fine art presses
follows:
Art-O-Mat (Clark Whittington), Scott Betz, Blue Barnhouse Press, Jennifer
Brook, Barbara Campbell, William Clements, Ann Conner, Laurie Corral, Jerstin
Crosby, Matt Egan, Michael Ehlbeck, Seth Ellis, David Faber, Andy Farkas,
Bill Fick, April Flanders, John Ford, Fort Grunt (Lou Joseph and Ben Fischer),
Donald Furst, John Gall, Beth Grabowski, Horse and Buggy Press (Dave Wofford),
Dazzala Knight, Littleton Studio (Herb Jackson, David Dodge Lewis, Matt
Liddle, Harvey Littleton, Clarence Morgan, Judith O’Rourke), Scott
Ludwig, John Maggio, Craig Malmrose, Kyoko Masutani, Katherine McGinn, Kore
Loy McWhirter, Heather Muise, Roy Nydorf, Ryan O’Malley, Jennifer
Page, Susan Harbage Page, Lisa Beth Robinson, Terry Schupbach-Gordon, Merrill
Shatzman, Christopher Thomas, Stacy Lynn Waddell, Lee Walton, and James
Williams.
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