flooded plain

The Wind gets a job

2009-01-07T14:18:00.000-08:00

Mentos + Coke

2008-04-30T09:38:00.000-07:00

I found this on Uppercase but I still thank it's incredibly interesting. This event was to set the new world record for Mentos + Soda explosion done in Belgium. I love that the organizers thought about the design of the event with all the blue rain slickers and the careful rows.

Pulp Gallery

2008-04-27T21:12:00.001-07:00

I recently had another exhibition open in April in Omaha this time at the Pulp Gallery and Paper Store. Since I also have work currently on display at RNG Gallery, I decided this work should be different from the other location. I chose to show work from my graduate thesis project. Joey Lynch of Tugboat Presents curated this show with an artist from Lincoln, Carlos Guerrero.

The first image is from the "All We Have is Now" series and the second one is "Untitled". This show was recently reviewed by the City Weekly and you can click here to download a pdf of it. Also you can read an artist statement for the work by visiting my website at www.andrewhershey.com or following this link to the statement.

Typophile

2008-04-25T18:56:00.000-07:00

You gotta check out his video I just found on an awesome design related blog called Uppercase. The video is a human life shown through typography. I just saw Helvetica and thought it was so interesting so that might explain part of my fascination with this video.

A few prints at RNG

2008-04-20T20:57:00.000-07:00

Both of these prints are from the series "The Wearing out of the World" and are currently featured at the Bemis Center staff show at RNG Gallery. Click here to download a review of the show courtesy of the Omaha City Weekly.

Catherine Ferguson Website

2008-03-19T15:04:00.000-07:00

Check out Catherine Ferguson's new website. She's designing the sets and costumes for the upcoming Aida Opera here in Omaha. The section with the image is actually a slideshow on the homepage. Her website is www.catherineferguson.com

UnderCurrents - Group Show at RNG

2008-03-19T10:36:00.001-07:00

Next upcoming show is a group show with fellow staff members of the Bemis. It will be at RNG Gallery here in Omaha featuring Rachel Ziegler, Matt Lowe, Jeremy Stern, Natalie Linstrom and of course me. It should be an awesome show with an opening on April 5, 6-10pm. I'll be showing similar work that was at Big Orbit Gallery and Curated Culture, but I'm thinking of adding a few twists to it. Stop by the opening or looking for an upcoming post with some pictures. Then the weekend following this opening I'll be in a 2 person show on the other side of Omaha. I'm a little worried that it'll be to soon to have 2 shows in the same city, but sometimes you got to take opportunities when they come and it will be different work. Look out for more information on that.

House Surprises!

2008-03-19T10:22:00.000-07:00

Oh Boy! House fun. So after a week and a half of living in the new place, we've already had our first house guest and 2 repairs. The furnace crapped out and stopped lighting, right after Dan left. They were able to fix that fairly easily. Then that night 1 of the new pipes in the bathroom came about at a joint! Thank goodness we were there at the time to shut of the water right away. Mark had just finished a shower when I noticed water pooling on the floor and then we heard gushing water from the first floor! As a ran to the basement to shut of the water it looked like it was raining in the freshly painted kitchen with an inch of water pooling on the freshly refinished wood floors.

We were able to soak up most of the water right away and tore out the ceiling to allow all the beams to dry. Hopefully we won't get any mold going in there. So our contractor has been working (Slooowly) on fixing everything. I think the joint in the pipe just didn't get glued right and it took it a week of use to come apart. Anyway so we're back to plastic on everything , a mess everywhere and the stove in the dining room! I guess nobody said home ownership would be easy. Well actually everyone said it was hard work.

I'm looking forward to having everything put back together, to cook a meal in my own house and not have to trip over any damn plastic tarps.

Moved in February

2008-03-19T10:10:00.000-07:00

After many months of waiting and working we finally moved in to our place at the end of February. The following week we had a friend visit us from St. Louis. Of Course we'd planned on him coming to visit for months and we thought we'd be moved in sometime in December. Oh well at least we got in to the house before he made it to Omaha. And good friends don't care to much about moving boxes filling the place.

Here are 3 pictures 2 of the living room and the yellow on the walls. Originally we wanted a color that would set of the woodwork. This color does that, but it wasn't quite what we had in mind. It's a little jarring in an empty room, but with some things in the room it looks okay. the other picture is the dining room in dark brown and light blue for the ceiling. It'll be fun to work on fill and decorating the rooms.

The Bathroom is even closer to being done.

2008-01-22T23:56:00.000-08:00

At this point we are still waiting on the custom sized shower door to come in. And then getting it installed. Then we need to paint everything, but that's the easy part, and clean up the beat up old door that comes into the bathroom. And with that I think the bathroom will finally be done. So, what our contractor said would be a 3 week project should finally, by the end of the month, be done after 4 months! Well I guess he's done a good job, but my goodness....

Take a look at some of the older pictures and just try to picture: that the old bathroom had plastic mint green tile on the walls and only 12 inches of space between the sink and the bathtub to squeeze through on your way to the toilet/cupboards.

More Bathroom pictures

2008-01-22T23:38:00.000-08:00

I'm sure you've all been dying to know more about how the house project is going. Well here are some pictures of the bathroom coming closer to being done.

Shower stall on the left in the black marble. Toilet going on the right.

Medicine cabinet number 1 you can see the hook ups for pedestal sink number 1.

Medicine cabinet number 2 with second sink hook ups and more cupboards.

New house picture slideshow

2008-01-22T21:54:00.000-08:00

Take a look at the slideshow of the house work. I think if you click on it you'll be taken to my Picasa web album to view them as thumbnails. Anyway it's taking a long time but its already come a long way.

PULP Omaha

2008-01-20T23:41:00.000-08:00

A new gallery space/paper store called Pulp opened recently in the Benson area of Omaha. It's pretty awesome and features loads of great letterpress and silkscreen cards and gifts. The gallery has had 2 shows so far, one featuring Tugboat Presents' Joey Lynch who does mostly silkscreen prints and the newest show features art by women. I haven't been to see this show yet but the list of names is impressive. I'd love to show art work there sometime.

Anyway they have a website check it out at http://www.p-u-l-p.com/

bemisUNDERGROUND

2008-01-20T23:35:00.001-08:00

Take a look at the most recent website I've made. It's for the Bemis Center's Alternative project space called the Bemis Underground. I think the site looks pretty good. Let me know what you think.

Catching up

2008-01-20T23:27:00.000-08:00

Sorry I've been away for so long. Things have been crazy busy. We're still working on our house. The bathroom is almost done. We have the living room and the dining room done and currently the hardwood floors are being redone. So it looks like if all goes well we'll be in the place FINALLY by the end of January. Of course the house won't be done by any means but at least we'll be able to call it home. I really can't wait!!

Here are 2 pictures from my recent show in Buffalo, NY at Big Orbit gallery. It's a new process for me and usually I include people in the images so these seem a little strange to me to be devoid of figures.

Early Pictures of Our Fixer Upper

2007-10-03T20:38:00.000-07:00

Here's a slideshow of the house we bought. As you can see it needs a lot of work. We've been working just about every night on it. Last Saturday we had a work party day. Mark's family all came out and my parents came. We pretty much got the whole back yard cleaned up. The place definitely looks like a prison with its gray stucco. We're going to repaint it eventually, but first things first.

New Group Show

2007-09-06T14:58:00.000-07:00

My work will be on display September 21 - November 17 as part of the 9th annual art auction for the Bemis Center. If you are in Omaha stop by the gallery to check them out in person or if you are out of town take a look at the website. These two pieces are 15 x 22 in. and archival inkjet with reductive paper printing.

Ponca State Park for Labor Day

2007-09-04T20:27:00.000-07:00

For Labor Day, we went camping at Ponca State Park. It was a very nice place to visit up on the northern edge of the state on the Upper Missouri river. The weather was good most of the time. It just rained the morning of the first day. We went hiking on one of the prairie trails, swimming, and kayaking in the backwaters of the river. Food is always an important part of camping. That and hanging out by the fire.

The prairie trail shows off the space available out here in Nebraska. Of course a picture doesn't do justice to the sense of openness and the quiet so loud that your ears ring.The backwaters are the marshy sections of land near the river that are made up of sand bars and shallow inlets. They are great habitat for birds and fish. A flock of Canadian Geese were already starting the trek south.

Yup we had a good time. It was awfully nice to get away and relax a little. And to not think about the house purchase coming up or work.

Friends' wedding in Buffalo

2007-09-01T20:09:00.000-07:00

Mark and I went to the wedding of two of our good friends, Hans and Soyeon, in Buffalo, New York. It was a wonderful occasion to reconnect and revisit a place we had spent two years of our lives. I still miss Buffalo a little and it was fun to see it again. Their wedding was held in an old Greek Orthodox church which has been converted into a manuscript library. It was a beautiful place for a wedding and perfect for a small intimate gathering. Here are a few pictures of the occasion.

Books, boobs and dinks

2007-08-08T07:01:00.000-07:00

I just thought this was funny, crocheted naughty bits! The books that go with them are about how to do self examinations for breast cancer etc. The work is by Shannon Gerard. Some of her other work explores the experience of fighting breast cancer.

I love her books and drawing style. I wish I could see some in person.

House Update

2007-08-08T06:59:00.000-07:00

Well we made an offer on that little house last friday and they called as hour later to accept! So things are moving along quickly on that front. We have the house inspection tomorrow and then the FHA inspection sometime after that. Given that we still want the house, etc. We close on September 14. I'll keep updating.

bemisUNDERGROUND Fundraiser

2007-08-02T21:14:00.000-07:00

This Weekend the bemisUNDERGROUND is having fundraiser art sale and party. Everything is $100. So I think people are really excited about it. Art that's affordable?? I put a piece in so I hope it goes well. The money raised will be used for next year's show schedule. I'm kind of excited because Susan White who I posted a blog about earlier was selected to show her work for next year's schedule. She's the one that does the wood burning drawings on paper. Here are a few other examples of work in the sale.

House Bidding

2007-08-02T21:04:00.000-07:00

Oh my God! We are really close to placing an offer on the house shown on the July 23 blog posting. Mark and I found a loan that lets one take out additional money to do home improvements before you moving. This would be great to get started on some of the projects like the bathroom and the wiring. Things that are needed immediately, but we just don't have money to do no matter how cheap the house is. Anyway the bank is working on approving the loan. But we are down to the wire as the Seller wants an offer by tomorrow otherwise they are taking it off the market, because they have someone who's willing to rent it.

It's a little nerve racking. I suppose I'm still a little anxious about buying a house and the quickness needed isn't giving me enough time to get used to the idea, the commitment, the PAYMENT!

Simpsons

2007-07-29T21:48:00.000-07:00

In case you were curious and I know you were, here's what I'd look like if I were turned into a Simpson.

Another Home

2007-07-23T12:23:00.000-07:00

This weekend Mark and I took another couple of looks at this home. Even took my parents through it. It has some good things going for it. It was built in the 1880s has nice character and a promising layout. It is oozing with potential, but it needs to have pretty much everything updated: a/c, furnace, plumbing, wiring, water heater, and the bathroom. My dad walked into the bathroom and the toilet totatlly tilted forward, due to the buckling, rotten floor. I think we're most excited about the possibilities, but it looks like so much work and we have very little money to get started with. Take a look at some of the pics though.

Yet another website

2007-07-10T22:27:00.000-07:00

The latest website I'm working on is www.bemiscenterartauction.org for our yearly auction fundraiser. I'm pretty excited about this one as I just figured out how to create little rollovers that come up with a thumbnail of the artist work when you mouse over their name. Would love to hear what you think.

Beautiful House

2007-07-10T22:19:00.000-07:00

We met with our real estate agent again tonight and looked at this house in Florence along with a number of others. This one was so cute! It has 4 bedrooms and has been entirely updated. Fresh paint, newish roof, heater, A/C, etc. It was built in the 1910s so it has lots of character and woodwork. It's across the street from the yoga studio and down the alley from the ice cream stand, how cool is that? But it's a block off a busy street, no garage, and the yard is really small. My mom keeps proclaiming that it's just crazily over priced. I don't know if that's true but it might be at the very upper edge of our price range.

Dome House

2007-07-10T22:13:00.001-07:00

Mark and I have been looking for houses in Omaha and dreaming of our own little place. One of the houses we looked at was this tiny little dome house in Florence which is nice part of town a little old and a little worn, but it's the district of Omaha I grew up in so it feels right to me.

This house was cute and had a really great feeling space for the main living, but it was tiny only 500 sq ft. with one bedroom that extend off the back of the dome. And as you can see in the picture the garage is larger than the dome/main living area. There was also some water damage.
Could be fun but would need to be added on to and they are asking way to much.

Just made a new website

2007-06-23T22:50:00.001-07:00

I just finished a website for an artist friend. It's rather plain but that's what she wanted. I think it shows off the artwork better anyway. If you're interested take a look at the real thing at www.claudiaalvarez.org.

Paper Boys

2007-06-23T16:07:00.001-07:00

Mark and I are working on creating an online business to sell all of our creative wares. I've finally got the logo created. I'm pretty excited about it. You can tell me what you think. But I'm hoping to have the site up maybe before the end of summer. I was also thinking of linking it to Etsy or Ebay or something. I don't know, does anyone who sells stuff through the internet have any suggestions?

Hitchcock Nature Area Iowa

2007-06-23T15:59:00.000-07:00

Thule and I went hiking this weekend at the Hitchcock Nature Area a county park near here in Iowa. Absolutely beautiful rolling hills. Actually it's in the Loess Hills, which is the dust that has blown off the Rocky Mountains and collected in Western Iowa for thousands of years. Anyway it creates these rugged type hills that are really interesting to look at and surprisingly steep. I'm thinking it'll be really beautiful in the fall and perfect for snowshoeing in the winter. Not that we get much snow here, but still. . .

2007-05-20T10:01:00.001-07:00

Antony Gormley recently opened a new exhibition in London at the Hayward Gallery. One of the pieces in the show is, Blind Light, a glass room filled with a glowing white cloud. You have to check out the website for the exhibition at http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gormley/light.html where you can see videos of people walking through it. It looks absolutely beautiful! Wish I could make a trip to London this summer to see it in person. In addition to Blind Light is Event Horizon in which the artist installed numerous figures on the building rooftops throughout London. I think it would be eerie to be walking around the city with these "people" looking down on you. Would it feel like protection or surveillance?

"Immigrants" Printmakers from the Funen Workshop

2007-05-12T13:36:00.000-07:00

The new exhibition at the Bemis Center is an intense printmaking show featuring the work of artists working at the Funen Workshop in Denmark. This exhibition runs the range of media and styles all based around the topic of Immigration.

Tine Hind had a beautiful set of etchings in moody dark blacks and bright greens. The artist also incorporated sewing. In this image the green lightning bolt shapes are green thread stitched through the image.

This and the next image are two woodcut prints by Kate Nilsson. I love woodcuts so I was naturally drawn to these two.

Pernille Bejer had a set of 4 prints of boats obviously working from the same plate but reworking it. This was the most interesting one to me.

Public Art Mural

2007-05-05T21:11:00.000-07:00

I've been working on a public art mural. The project had local children take photos of what Omaha meant to them. This resulted in 4000 photos and I then incorporated all of them into a giant 80 foot long mural of the city skyline. The full mural is 11 panels long with the tallest one being about 8 feet tall. These are some images of it installed.

Wood burning paper

2007-04-30T12:52:00.000-07:00

This is the work of Susan White. It's a design that is burnt into the paper using a wood burning tool. I must really be drawn to the quality of this kind of mark making, since made a previous post about the wood burning work of Randy Bolton.

Books by Chris Ware

2007-04-29T09:35:00.000-07:00

Chris Ware recently had an exhibition at the Sheldon Memorial Gallery in Lincoln, NE. Phenomenal work. I'm diggin' this book, especially the line work and design of the cover and the colors used in the images.

Who's the Terrorist Now

2007-04-26T18:48:00.000-07:00

Strange Culture a film about the arrest and trial of Steve Kurtz an artist and professor at the University at Buffalo. He was creating artwork with his wife about genetically modified food crops. His wife passed away from unrelated causes and suddenly the FBI searched his home. They found petri dishes and an art show invitation which had Arabic writing on it. They wrongly arrested him for being a terrorist. Since then he has been cleared, but it is astonishing how little information is needed for the FBI to label a person a terrorist.

You can view the trailer for the film at strangeculture.net or click here.

So Damn Easy Goin'

2007-04-24T20:41:00.000-07:00

Last night Andrew Bird was in town to play a show at Sokol Underground. An absolutely amazing show! He had this phonograph with a double trumpet set up on stage. It was an interest object to look at through the opening act. I thought it was just a cool stage prop, but then when Andrew started playing you realized it wasn't just for show. He would load loops of sound into it and then it would start spinning. Giving the music a unique warbling sound. It gave you the feeling of being a kid on a tilt-a-whirl, spinning so fast that you could only catch bits of sound from the world beyond the ride.

The most amazing song he did was his encore, which you can listen to in this YouTube video, called "why?". It's just him playing and layering loops of sound. He gets really intense. Awesome!

This is another good one.

Somewhere in the Middle of America

2007-04-21T16:07:00.000-07:00

Lately I've been working my way through a book called As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art by Rebecca Solnit. This Earth Day I thought I'd post a section I found interesting:

"America's identity lies in its open spaces, the space of possibility, but also of speed, movement, and unobstructed will. A truly American identity emerged only with the invasion of the 'Great American Desert.' Before the credo of manifest destiny, the non-European spaces of the prairies were perceived as threatening -- not merely physically threatening to those Euro-Americans from east of the Mississippi used to an abundance of water and trees, but threatening to the vision of America as a true second Europe, sharing its scale, social relations, and agriculture basis. The prairies and spaces further west demanded a different way of life, spread people farther apart for survival, taught them a different grammar of scale that still survives in the desert. And pre-manifest destiny America sees such space as breeding hordes and nomads, as undoing the rootedness of European culture.

And so the questions raised have never been answered. Yet the different quality of space seems to have bred a different character, what is now known worldwide as the American character, one more belligerent, more ferocious, and less rooted in place and memory than true settlers, a character generated out of the unchecked willfulness such vast expanses permitted people living not in the collective unit of the nomad but in the singularity of the apotheosized individual: room to swing your arms. The impediments have grown, but the will has not grown accustomed to them, and so violence continues. . ."

Living in Nebraska, in one of the plains states, I found this bit interesting. I think she points out an important feature of America which so often forgotten has had a profound impact on our culture. The vast open space of the prairies have given us a false sense of unending abundance. They've helped create our individualist consumerist society. Our cultural identity is in part defined by the vast possibilities of the plains, but how will it change after the plains are filled? What happens when we begin to run out of things: oil, trees, clean water etc.?

Happy Earth Day everyone.

Isaac Tobin

2007-04-20T07:34:00.000-07:00

I found a website called Book by Its Cover, which led me to the work of Isaac Tobin. He's a designer from Chicago but also makes exquisite sketchbooks. I love the layering of found materials and use of painting, drawing, even sewing. He approaches his sketchbook as almost a work of art in itself. I always seem to use mine more for notes, which tends to look pretty boring. Enjoy some images of his work.

Jeff Wall - Photo at the MOMA

2007-04-17T19:07:00.000-07:00

I was browsing the MOMA website and stumbled on a Jeff Wall exhibit of photographs. You can view the entire exhibition on-line here at the MOMA website. It's a very nice site with commentary by the artist on each work.

Diversity

2007-04-15T09:46:00.000-07:00

This Saturday, Trinity Church in the suburbs of Omaha hosted an ex-gay conference led by Focus on the Family. For $80 one could be told how to "fix" themselves or someone else in 5 hours or less. The Omaha Weekly Reader wrote a great article about the conference which you can read by clicking here. In the article they point out that no one who proclaims to have been changed by an ex-gay ministry isn't being paid to do so. The conference features many ex-gay people who witness about being gay and how the ministry "saved" them. Of course one must realize that their job is to make such claims.

The Reader in their research points out that (as one would suspect) the conference doesn't draw many gay or lesbian people. (Unless of course they're protesting.) It appeals mostly to conservative family or friends of people who are gay. They attend in the hopes of learning how to "cure" their loved one. I can't imagine how harmful this must be to a relationship. "I think you're broken let me fix you." Why stir up and condone intolerance like that?

How about a conference instead, on appreciating diversity and accepting those that are different from you. I certainly doubt that an attendee of a conservative evangelical church would like to be told that their religion is wrong. Our community must learn to accept difference among it's citizens if it is going to continue to grow and have any hope of being more than an afterthought on the national stage.

Omaha, oh Yeah!

2007-04-14T14:30:00.000-07:00

Omaha is on the plains and it used to be the epitome of the bland and boring. But now it's becoming recognized for more. Check out this link to a segment that was recently featured on Studio 360. Kurt Anderson also recently featured Omaha in the New York Times. The part on Studio 360 is a little more flattering than the print version.

Enjoy!

Remainder

2007-04-13T10:10:00.000-07:00

Recent exhibition at the bemisUNDERGROUND Remainder features the work of Rachel Ziegler and Nic Bartlett. These two Omaha based artists put on show about traces and the left behind.

Rachel's work incorporates ink droplets that are puddled on the surface of the paper and then allowed to dry leaving behind ringlets of color. The patience required to do this must be imense. Of her work Rachel says: "The process involved to create this body of work has become an important exercise. The repetitive mark making and the measuring of evaporating water forces me to be acutely aware of the present moment. Slowing down to experience this process is a peaceful time for me."
Nic Bartlett created an installation with a bathtub that leaks salted water on to the floor, which then created salt crystals on the floor. In the bathtub, floating on the darkly colored water was a sailboat with the sound of something clunking in the bathtub playing over a sound system.

Starting Something

2007-04-12T21:14:00.000-07:00

So how does one start a business? I was thinking about the SGC panel full of young people who had started businesses of their own and seemed to be doing well or at least were having a great time. I've always thought that I'd love to start an art center of some kind. Possibly a community print shop, I've noticed that Omaha is definitely lacking in that area. Or my partner is in to floral design and wants to own a flower shop. I was thinking what a great melding. We could start a joint business, he could do flowers/events I could design and print invitations/posters etc. Could do a combination of silkscreen and or letterpress. Of course the letterpress would have to be digitally created plates, because as much as I love type I don't want to deal with the space/weight/organization of it. I've really been thinking about this after seeing the work of Hammer Press and The Small Stakes. So how does one get started? I know they say start small but when you barely have enough room/money to live it seems like a huge under taking to create artwork.

I was talking to a friend recently that was saying how much potential there is in Omaha right now. It's small enough and midwest enough that there aren't that many arts related venues. And city is currently revitalizing the north of downtown area, which at the moment is a patch of old vacant brick warehouse. But soon will be a vibrant part of town. Saddle Creek records and Film Streams is building a new music/film venue there. This could be the Omaha arts district.

Electric Cars

2007-04-05T20:59:00.000-07:00

So Yesterday my partner and I went to one of the local churches in Omaha that was celebrating Earth Day by showing environmental movies all month long. We saw Who Killed the Electric Car which was a movie I had been wanting to see. It was fun to see it in the company of like minded people. The movie itself was frustrating to watch the stumbling incompetence of the american corporation.

GM had produce a beloved forward thinking car that was years ahead of others in the industry. It even made foreign car makers nervous. Then they destroyed it in favor of the Hummer. The idea being that consumers were already happy to buy gas powered cars, and huge ones at that, why bother them with something new. Seems like even though that was true you should still diversify your product to meet the demands of green people and get ready for the future. Toyota did that and they were hugely successful. They still make huge SUVs and Trucks but just because they made one mass market hybrid people think they are great and environmentally friendly.

I am really excited about this new Chevy Volt concept. It sounds like a great idea, an electric car that plugs in but basically has a small gas generator on board to extend your range. On days you only drive to work and back you have plenty of energy from the battery, but on days with longer treks you can still use the car. I hope they actually make the car and not just talk about it. It looks a little racy for me and I feel slightly guilty as I'm really a VW person, but VW isn't even talking about electric cars let alone making them. You can go to Chevrolet's website and voice your opinion about whether or not GM should build the Volt.

I'd Rather be Drawing

2007-04-04T21:58:00.000-07:00

These images are from the exhibition I'd Rather be Drawing which was part of the Southern Graphics Conference this year in Kansas City. Below are some of the works I was most interested in. The space was awesome after we finally found it.

This work was done by Michael Kruger this year he was all over the conference from shows to sitting on numerous panels. I love the quarkiness of this work and yet it makes me think of suburban sprawl...What happens when every place is the same?

John Brown's work incorporates doodles upon doodles. Each figure in this is cut out and glued down to the larger canvas creating this textured layered work.

Randy Bolton's new body of work is poignant and touching. The image is burned into the handmade paper using a wood burning tool. He's still using the drawing style of the 1950s kid's book illustration, but with this new drawing technique it creates a contrast I think is brilliant.

Another Breathtaking Printmaker

2007-04-01T13:10:00.000-07:00

Jennifer Ghormley is another printmaker who was at SGC this year. She's a recent MFA grad from the University of Nebraska, who now lives in Denver. Her work is beautiful and textural as she works with sheer fabric. She'll be having a show in Lincoln Nebraska at the Haydon Gallery opening this Friday, April 6, 2007.

Southern Graphics

2007-03-31T13:55:00.000-07:00

Recently I went to the Southern Graphics conference. It's a crazy printmaking conference. Lot's of artists and art all in one place. this year it was in Kansas City. My favorite part of the whole thing is the open portfolio session, 6 hours of artists sharing their work here are a few of the most amazing pieces.

This is work by Jennifer Jenkins a phenomenal artist incorporating sewing and printing.

Stellar Print Artist

2007-03-31T13:52:00.000-07:00

Check out the work of Rochester NY print/letterpress artist Rachael Hetzel.

Welcome!

2007-03-31T13:51:00.000-07:00

Welcome, enjoy reading Flooded Plain.

2007-03-28T10:49:00.000-07:00