Our friends at Carrier Pigeon will be holding a holding a silent auction/raffle at Blackburn 20|20 this Friday. Prints and drawings by Evan Summer, Bruce Waldman, Russ Spitkovsky, Christopher Darling, Matt Barteluce, Kristy Caldwell, Ray Jones, Rie Hasegawa and Justin Sanz will be available for bidding and raffled off for prizes. There will be free wine and buttons for everyone! We hope to see you and your friends there.

All proceeds will go towards the printing of the first issue of Carrier Pigeon!

Event: SILENT AUCTION
Date: Friday the 30th of July, 7pm
Location: Blackburn 20|20, EFA, 323 West 39th St, Fl 5, (Between 8th and 9th Ave)

Can't make the auction? Help Carrier Pigeon by donating via their kickstarter page:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/929428847/carrier-pigeon-illustrated-fiction-and-fine-art

 Image: David Collins, In Bound, Acrylic on linen, 2010, 20" x 40" x 1.5"

RBPMW is proud to announce the opening of Project Fellowship I.  This show is the first of two exhibitions featuring the work of Project Fellowship recipients, 2008 - 2009. These fellowships are designed to allow artists to fully realize and complete a specific printmaking project during the fellowship period. Fellows are able to pursue aesthetic and conceptual goals while working in a professional, co-operative printmaking space.

Featured Artists: Tomie Arai, Kristin Casaletto, David Collins, Caroline Falby, Jim Gaylord and Gregory Forstner.

Exhibition dates: 29th July - 5th August
Opening: Thursday, 29th July, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Blackburn 20|20, EFA, 323 West 39th St, Fl 5 (between 8th and 9th Ave)
Gallery hours: By appointment (646.416.6226)



If there's a medium that can be melded with woodcut prints, Cannonball Press is gonna try and do it. After years of making woodcut installations, giant stick puppets, banners, costumes and performances they are combining hand-carved woodblock prints made on a 1938 Vandercook proof press with state-of-the-art 3D digital animation software. Old school meets new school in the inimitable Cannonball monochromatic style.

Cannonball Press is teaming up with acclaimed jazz saxophonist John Ellis, his band Double-Wide and accomplished animator Eric Knisley to create their own 3-minute long woodcut Petrushka.

They are seeking $3500 to create a video for Ellis's new composition "Dublinland Carnival," off his new album "Puppet Mischief." The video will take the form of a high-speed ride through a funhouse environment populated by barkers, zombies, charlatans, mobsters, liars, strumpets, astro-hogs, hooligans, beat machines, hornheads and sundry beasts, all of whom are puppets themselves.

All the imagery will be rendered in exquisite monochromatic woodcut prints by Mike and Martin of Cannonball Press, made exclusively for this project. Knisley will then take the imagery, animate it, and create a 3D environment for the characters to inhabit.  The POV of the camera will be the POV of the riders going through the funhouse ride.

Apparently it isn't enough for these guys just to spend hundreds of hours making these incredibly laborious woodcuts. They gotta animate them too. But they can guarantee: this thing is going to rock. Please buy a print and help our friends out!

Check out this cool video of Mike and Martin explaining their new project:
http://projectsite.unitedstatesartists.org/project/woodcut_thrillride_animation

Artist Steve Johnson was at RBPMW last week working on an exciting new suite of lithographs! Johnson works primarily in gray scale utilizing the warm and cool tones of canvas, graphite, gesso, and paint. His work explores the concept of the mock-heroic and the absurdity of everyday life; his graphic sensibility and strong marks take these themes to a monumental scale, reminiscent of painters such as Rubens and Turner. Johnson personifies emotional conflicts in the form of birds, rabbits, and horses. His current body of work is in preparation for his 2011 solo exhibitions at Blacburn 20|20 and the College of Charleston.

Steve Johnson was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona, a beautiful yet formidable desert landscape; his childhood memories consist mostly of being extremely hot and playing with the lawn hose to cool off. Johnson moved to San Francisco in 1996 where he lived for almost ten years. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in printmaking and painting in 2003 and received an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from Arizona State University in 2008. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the College of Charleston.

CANNONBALL PRESS IS LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD CUTS!

 

Cannonball Press announces Open Call to woodcut/linocut artists

 

Cannonball Press, Undisputed World King of Black and White No-Holla Mushboard Print Publishing, is presently accepting submissions from woodcut and linocut artists from far and wide who want their work published and distributed by this legendary Brooklyn-based printing powerhouse.
 
Over the past decade we've published hundreds of editions of black and white relief cuts by over fifty different artists, and in the process worked with a lot of top-notch folks. And busted the damn print publishing mold in the process. But we haven't worked with you yet. This is your chance to make history, people!
 
We don't know how many people we'll choose to work with out of the submissions we get, but we'll choose some for sure. Those chosen will be asked to create new cuts, which will be printed in luscious black ink only on white 18"x24" paper only.Cannonball will fund and print the editions. We'll keep some, you keep some, we'll sell our copies for 20 bucks, we'll put your work up on our website, exhibit it at our shows, and we all get famous as hell.  We'll give you all the details if you're selected. Please note: if selected, you will be asked to make new cuts for us. We are not interested in printing any old work.
 
We couldn't care less about your age, sex, planetary origin, species, or anything of the sort.  We just want some bad-ass lookin art. So send it.

 
 4 simple instructions:
 

1.) DEADLINE:  JUNE 25, 2010
 
2.) Before the deadline, send us an email at info@cannonballpress.com, with the subject line reading "Open Call Submission"
 
3.) In that email, tell us your name, and in ONESENTENCE why your work should be published and distributed by Cannonball Press.  Tell it like it is.
 
4.) Attach 3 (no more, no less) images of previous woodcut or linocut prints you've made. Make your files 180dpi, and no larger than 4" x 6."
 
Rock it!

http://www.cannonballpress.com/