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A Pulse in Memory
Silk Aquatint

Pair/Pareja
Silk Aquatint

Profile With Thorns
Silk Aquatint

Artist Biography

Born in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic Julio Valdez relocated to New York in 1993. Working between pluri-cultural sensibilities, Valdez infuses his work with multi-layered imagery as a response to the shifting cultural and social influences in his life. His work has been exhibited internationally. Valdez has received numerous prestigious international awards, including an Artist-in Residence Fellowship at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City. In 1997-98, the Silver Palette for Painting at the xxxeme Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-surMer, France in 1998, the Hrand Zprize at the XVIII E. Leon Jimenes Biennial, the Dominican Republic in 2000, and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2003, among others.

Julio Valdez’s Silk Aquatint prints are int the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Instituto de Artes Hraficas Oaxaquena, Oaxaca, (Francisco Toledo’s collection) Mexico; Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and many other public and private collections worldwide.

© Julio Valdez

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Basic Tree Brick Wall
Monotype, Collage, Solarplate intaglio

Three Below the Tree
monotype, chine colle, intaglio-type, solarplate intaglio
16″ x 12″

Tree Dream and a Color Bath
monotype, chine colle, intaglio-type
16″ x 20″

Less Effort at the Institute
Monotype, collage, Intaglio-Type

Artist Biography

Ron Pokrasso has been an exhibiting artist and printmaker for more than 25 years. He has had over 40 solo exhibitions and more than 150 group shows. His work is in public, private, and corporate collection throughout the U.S. and abroad.

For 11 years Pokrasso owned and directed Graphics Workshop (gifted to The College of Santa Fe in 1993). He is an originator of the printmaking event “Monothon” His teaching experience includes universities, museums, public schools and private workshops, as well as Artist Residencies in the U.S., Scotland, Ireland and Italy.

© Ron Pokrasso

Beyond the Gate
by: Patricia Malcom
6″ x 12″
monotype and colored pencil

Contemplation
by: Sarah Anderson
18″x24″
Monotype

Remains
by: Wendy Creel
4.75″ x 10″
Monotype

The Gentle Rustle of Dusk
by: Leonara Durrett
24″x18″
Monotype

Three Tomatoes
by: Jennifer French
Monotype

Deli Slices
by: Gerald Fitz-Gerald
18 x 18″
Monotype

Winter Into Spring
by: Mari Holmes
28″ x 16″
monotype on handmade paper, bamboo

New Grounds Print Workshop
New Grounds is a Albuquerque-based safer and alternative printmaking facility fully equipped for the creation of prints in etching, photogravure, monotype and relief printing. Regularly scheduled classes are offered in all of these printmaking mediums. The interested public can learn about prints through studio tours or printmaking lectures. New Grounds encourages the highest standards of quality in all aspects of printmaking. New Grounds has it’s home in a 4000 square foot facility with six hand-operated etching presses.

Waterfront
by: Kate Jenkins
monotype

Eggplant & Hot Sauce
by: Kate Jenkins
monotype

Bad Dog
by: Liz Chalfin
monotype

Bad Dog
by: Liz Chalfin
monotype

Flower 1
by: Anita Hunt
viscosity print

Balance 2
by: Anita Hunt
viscosity print

Dark Foliage
by: Anita Hunt
viscosity print

Zea Mays Printmaking Studio
Zea Mays is a studio, workshop, educational facility and research center based in Florence, MA. At Zea Mays we research new developments in alternatives to toxic printmaking. We test products and methods and strive to demonstrate the greatest aesthetic potential of each new medium.

As an educational facility we offer artists, printmakers, students, teachers, and novices classes and workshops in new approaches to printmaking. Our emphasis is on intaglio, relief and monotype printmaking and we offer a wide range of courses for all levels of expertise.

Zea Mays is committed to bringing printmaking into the 21st century through research, education and collaboration.

© the artists who created the work

Artist Biography

Mitch Lyons earned his masters of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics from the Tyler School of Art, and his Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree in Graphics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His clay monoprints can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout the United States including the Brooklyn Museum of Arts, Woodmere Museum, American University and the University of Delaware.

He has had exhibitions of his work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Noyes Museum, New Jersey; Kalmar Lans Museum, Kalmar, Sweden and the Vonderau Museum, Fulda, Germany, He is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the arts Visual Arts Grant.

He has taught at West Chester University, Moore College of Art, Rowan University, Alfred University, and the University of Delaware. In the past 10 years he has led over 100 workshops.

To learn more about this process please visit the Clay Monotye section of the website here.

© Mitch Lyons

The following images are all reductive monotypes.

Jarrett

Father & Son

Tractor

Fluffing the Hay

Haying the Fields

Sickle

© William Jung

Chickenhead

Wishbone

Flower Child

Orangebod

Family Trio

Another Chickenhead

© Susan Rostow & Jarett Jung

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Yonder is the gate of Heaven
4-color Photo Intaglio
12″ x 16″

A Decetive Lives Here
4-color Photo Intaglio
12″ x 16″

He Says She’s a Dream
4-color Photo Intaglio
12″ x 16″

We will Rebuild
4-color Photo Intaglio
12″ x 16″

Ahhh…. Sake!
4-color Photo Intaglio
12″ x 16″

Artist Biography

Born in Yokosuka, Japan in 1950. David Jay Reed traveled extensively as a child between USA, Australia and Japan. He received an Associateship in Arts Degree from Contra Costa College, California, in 1969. He arrived in Perth, Western Australia in 1969 and received an Associate of Design from Curtin University. He received both a Diploma of Printmaking from the WA School of Art and Design and a Graduate Diploma in Education from Curtin University in 1990. He completed his MFA, majoring in non-toxic printmaking at Rochester Institute of Technology(RIT) in 2002. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at RIT.

Reed’s art, executed in a realistic manner, depict the stories of his travels and of the people who have been important in his life.

© David Jay Reed