IN RESIDENCE:
Recent Projects from Sculpture Space

A Collaboration between
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Sculpture Space, Utica.

September 5 - October 18, 2008
Opening Reception, Friday, September 5, 6-8 p.m.

Where else can you sink your teeth into frosting covered poetry, peek into hanging microcosms, observe nature work against itself, and witness sound waves transform into rippling light?

September 6 through October 18, 2008, EFA Project Space invites you to IN RESIDENCE: Recent Projects from Sculpture Space, an exhibition celebrating the cultivation of the creative process and the crucial contribution organizations such as Sculpture Space (Utica, NY) provide to artists. Curated by Christa Erickson and Patterson Sims, this exhibition provides a sampling of work by artists who have recently participated in Sculpture Space’s residency program.

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Kevin Bradley
RBPMW Guest Master Printmaker

Artist Talk & Printing Demonstration Thursday, August 21st 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm FREE!! Kevin will show a large selection of prints and and talk about his creative process using hand carved woodblocks, linoleum as well as hand set letterpress type from his massive collection at Yee-Haw Industries in Knoxville, TN.

Kevin Bradley was born in Greeneville, Tennessee–land of Davy Crockett–in 1963. Bradley first experimented with printmaking while studying graphic design and painting in the late 80s and early 90s at the University of Tennessee. By engaging methods and principles from all three disciplines, Bradley formed his own, iconic style. At the culmination of his formal education, Bradley concluded painting was the best vehicle for his creative expression; that printing was an ideal means for mass-production; and that the computer was the Devil’s Work.

In 1996, Bradley met designer Julie Belcher and the two partnered to establish Yee-Haw Industries, a working letterpress print shop, graphic design and artist studio. Although Bradley makes his home in Knoxville, Tennessee, he travels frequently to lecture and judge at institutions and competitions across the country.

See more of Kevin’s work at www.yeehawindustries.com

Kevin joins us through the Guest Master Printmaker Fellowship Project generously funded by NYSCA.

Photogravure Demonstration

Printing Demonstration with SCAD Professor Robert Brown Saturday, August 9, 2008 1:00PM to 4:00PM FREE!!!

Presented by Savannah College of Art & Design and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop.

The day will begin with a lecture about the history and process of photogravure, and a presentation of a portfolio of photogravure prints. Afterwards, we will complete two steps of the process - the etching and printing of the plate.

Robert Brown: At Colorado State University Robert Brown fell in love with printmaking for its material resistance as well as the dramatic mark-making possibilities. Professor Brown received his BFA in 1994 and moved to Seattle to do Post-baccalaureate work at University of Washington. In 1999, at his M.F.A. thesis show at the University of Texas in Austin, Katherine Brimberry of Flatbed Press hired him to intern and become a collaborative printer. At Flatbed Press Mr. Brown’s knowledge of printmaking deepened and refined by the collaborative process and grew to include photogravure, which is a major part of his current work. Since 2002, Professor Brown has worked at SCAD where he is the Graduate Coordinator and lead printer of Press Play Editions.

Beauvais Lyons at RBPMW

Guest Master Printmaker Beauvais Lyons spent a week at RBPMW completing two lithographs. During his week here he gave a talk on “The Art and Scholarship of Everitt Ormsby Hokes” and presented work from the Hokes Archive Collection.

Summer ‘08 Workshops

**All free studio time good for 4 weeks after last day of class!**

There is a $50 deposit required to reserve a spot in the classes. You must call to cancel your reservation 2 weeks before the class starts to get a full refund.

To sign up for classes and workshops, contact RBPMW at 646-416-6226 or email rbpmw@efa1.org.

Tom Christison at RBPMW

Guest Master Printmaker Tom Christison spent a week at RBPMW working on a couple prints with the assistance of RBPMW staff and interns.

During his week here he gave an artist talk and presentation of his work, as well as a demonstration of his use of combining lithography and monotype with latex paint to make unique works on paper.

The Guest Master Printmaker Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of NYSCA.

Artist Talk
Beauvais Lyons

RBPMW Guest Master Printmaker

Thursday, June 26th
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FREE!!!

“The Association for Creative Zoology: Micropterus trichopilaris” lithograph, 22 x 28 inches	“The Association for Creative Zoology: Trichopiscidae” lithograph, 22 x 28 inches

BEAUVAIS LYONS is a Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he has taught printmaking since 1985. Lyons received his MFA degree from Arizona State University in 1983 and his BFA degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1980. See his web site (web.utk.edu/~blyons) for information on his projects as a fake curator through the Hokes Archives. Lyons’ one-person exhibitions have been presented at over 50 museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. His prints are in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. In 2002 he received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at the Fine Arts Academy in Poznañ, Poland and coordinated the IMPACT 4 International Printmaking Conference in Berlin and Poznañ in September 2005.

“My studio work over the past twenty-five years has explored various forms of academic parody. My subjects have included archaeology, folk art, medicine, zoology and always include various elements of biography. Prints are central to much of my work, as printed culture makes both science and history possible. In my approach to academic parody I place a great deal of emphasis on the interrelationship between the various elements in the exhibition. I strive for visual, thematic and conceptual continuity in the exhibitions through the use of repeated stylistic motifs and serial images. Academic parody is potentially unlimited, and can take almost any form, style or medium to reflect almost any system of knowledge or belief. With these concerns I intend to create a work of fiction that is also a statement of truth.”

Tom Christison
RBPMW Guest Master Printmaker

Artist Talk & Printing Demonstration Thursday, May 29th 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm FREE!!Tom will talking about his work and demonstrating his process of using latex paint to create unique images combining it with monotype and lithography.

Tom Christison completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and his Master of Fine Arts at Arizona State University,Tempe, Arizona. He is currently a Lecturer of Art at the University of Iowa, Iowa City where he teaches printmaking and drawing. Tom maintains a private print workshop, Sandhill Press, where he continues to investigate creative ways of combing lithography, monotype and painting. His latest work deals with creating simple narratives about life cycles, passages of time, regeneration, and the food chain. The work has been influenced by 20thc. Billboards, commercial packaging, Poster art and Mexican retablos painting. Tom’s work may be found in numerous permanent collections including; The Corcoran, The National Museum of American Art, Washington,D.C. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Dresden Academy of Fine Art in Germany, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris among others.

“The recent work are collages of visual elements that build a simple narrative or more precisely involve themselves in story telling. The narratives focus on my concerns and ruminations regarding consumption, our genetically altered food chain and our cognitive and benign choices within it. The passage of time, bio-breakdown and fine line between what is beautiful and ugly infiltrate the work. The juxtaposition of visual elements, human and animal body parts, doll heads, worms, foodstuffs and smoke, create a contemporary parable. These narratives are composed so they may be interpreted in more than one way. The images and arrangements are trying to make an association with printed commercial packaging, toys and frozen food. Drawing is/ has been a important component of the work, working between two attitudes of mark making , highly rendered color elements and painterly marks. Combining these two strategies has made the work take on some surprising richness , both visually and physically. ”

Tom joins us through the Guest Master Printmaker Fellowship Project generously funded by NYSCA.

Jenny Schmid at RBPMW

Guest Master Printmaker Jenny Schmid spent a week at RBPMW working in the printshop on 2 stone lithographs. During her week here she gave an artist talk and presentation of her work, as well as a demonstration of how she uses the digital process to transfer imagery to a soft ground etching process. The 2 lithographs will be editioned and published through the workshop and will soon be available for sale.

Classes and Workshops
Spring / Summer ‘08

**All free studio time good for 4 weeks after last day of class!**

There is a $50 deposit required to reserve a spot in the classes. You must call to cancel your reservation 2 weeks before the class starts to get a full refund.

To sign up for classes and workshops, contact RBPMW at 646-416-6226 or email rbpmw@efa1.org.