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

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.

 



Image: Rosa Ruey, Observation Device; Shifting Milliseconds, Relief rolled monoprint collage with ink and acrylic drawings, 2010, 38" x 50".

RBPMW is proud to announce the opening of our 2008-9 1st Edition Fellowship exhibition. This show will feature the work of artists who were awarded our 1st Edition - Emerging Artist Fellowship for 2008-2009. These fellowships are aimed at providing emerging artists/ printmakers the opportunity to increase exposure of their artwork, as well as develop their skills as printmakers while pursuing aesthetic and conceptual goals in a professional, co-operative printmaking workspace. 

Exhibition dates: 14th June - 24th June
Opening: Monday 14th of June, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Blackburn 20|20, EFA, 323 West 39th St, Fl 5 (between 8th and 9th Ave)
Gallery hours: By appointment (646.416.6226)

2008-2009 1st Edition - Emerging Artist Fellowship recipients:
Michael Eade
Rosa Ruey
Justin Sanz
Jing Yu

Drawing with a Flatbed Press
Instructor: Phil Sanders

THIS CLASS IS HELD AT THE FRANS MASEREEL CENTRUM IN BELGIUM

Week 1: 26th July - 30th July
Week 2: 2nd August - 6th August
Class Fee: Week 1: 250€ / 2nd Week: 75€
Registration Deadline: June 14th

Image: Phil Sanders, Tempter of Man, 2010, Cyanotype, typewriter, 9" x 12"

See images here

The flatbed-offset press is the most versatile tool available to printmakers and printers alike.  It can be used to print lithographs, monotypes, and wood cuts as well as used to make films for silkscreen and transfers for etching and letterpress work.  Best of all you do not have to draw backwards! This class will show students how to use the press as a drawing tool, not just an editioning machine.  Class participants will be able to develop a multi-process print project as well as a working knowledge of the flatbed offset proofing press

Phil Sanders is the Director/Master Printer of the RBPMW. He was formerly a Master Printer for Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) and studied lithography at the Tamarind Institute. He has collaborated with a wide variety of artists including Jasper Johns, Terry Winters, Elizabeth Murray, Enrique Chagoya, Hung Liu, James Sienna, and Kiki Smith, to name a few. Sanders has taught at Stanford University as well as San Francisco State University. He has been professionally printing for the last fifteen years at various print-workshops across the country. Sanders has shown his own work internationally and is versed in lithography, intaglio, photo-gravure, relief, and book-binding techniques. Check out his website: www.gallerypas.com

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To register, please contact Ivan Durt,  ivan.durt@cjsm.vlaanderen.be

The Frans Masereel Centrum is the perfect home away from home for any printmaker!

Jarrod Beck

Brandon Cox

Frederick Hayes

Shervone Neckles

Monique Schubert

Ryan Wallace

Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to our pool of outstanding entries!

We received a great number of applications of exceptional quality, and our jurors were very happy with the final selections. Congratulations to the exhibiting artists and a big thank you to our jurors: Artist Chakaia Booker, Artist Joseph Hart and Master Printer Jennifer Melby. 

Wednesday, April 21
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Please join us for an informal talk and demo on Foil Printing with Ana Golici. Showing work by many artists, including herself, Ana will discuss the various results that can be achieved when foil is combined with digital and traditional printmaking techniques. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment the process and play with the new and intriguing Foil Printing technique. Golici is a longtime member and instructor at RBPMW and will teach the exciting new process of Foil Printing at RBPMW in a weekend long class, on May 8th & 9th.

How Foil Printing Began: In 1983 Professor Virginia A. Myers (an American artist and inventor) began researching the use of gold leaf and foil in the printmaking process. During this process she invented the Iowa Foil Press, a device that allows individual artists to incorporate foil stamping into their work. Myers worked in conjunction with community members and students to improve and document the printmaking process of foil stamping using the Iowa Foil Press, and collectively produced a book, “Foil Imaging...A New Art Form.” As of 2010, Professor Virginia A. Myers continues to teach printmaking at the University of Iowa printmaking studios, where she and her students are developing and perfecting hot-stamped foil techniques to create both editionable and unique prints.

TONIGHT!

...and counting
a performance by Wafaa Bilal
March 8, 8 pm - March 9, 8 pm

Live feed of performance:
http://rallyforiraq.com/index.html

Stop by Blackburn 20|20 from 6 - 8 pm tonight, to watch the end of Wafaa Bilal 24 hour performance '...and counting.' Bilal's back has been tattooed with a borderless map of Iraq and is being covered with one dot for each Iraqi and American casualty near the cities where they fell. The 5,000 dead American soldiers are represented by red dots, permanent visible ink, and the 100,000 Iraqi casualties are represented by dots of green UV ink, seemingly invisible unless under black light.

Bilal has partnered with Rally for Iraq* to raise funds that will help educate the youth of Iraq. They have set a goal to raise one dollar per dot tattooed on Bilal's back. We hope you will take the time to forward this email, which includes a link to a live feed of the performance below, to your community and help Bilal and Rally for Iraq with their noble goal.
 

*Rally for Iraq is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded and operated by a group of Iraqi-American volunteers and their friends.  Their goal is to offer opportunities that will help educate the youth of Iraq so that they have the skills to contribute to the reconstruction of their homeland.

 ... and counting is part of

MAN DOWN

March 8-April 2, 2010

Opening: Tues, March 9, 6-8pm