ARTISTS TALKING

# 6 [23 March 2008]

I have moved my blog over to my account on blogger. 

I feel that the set up there is more suited to the nature of my project where categorization and "searchability" is pretty  important.

 I want  for people to be able to view the images larger (where I have these available) and also to be able to,  for example find all images that fit the category "inkjet and lino". 

So thank you so much to A.N.'s "Artists Talking" for having a phenomenon such as this, because it was what got me started, with an idea that I had had for quite a while.

http://tradigitalprintmaking.blogspot.com

I may use A.N. "artists talking" for another project in the future where I am focussed on something more intimate which, I think, is more, where  its strength lies. 

# 5 [9 March 2008]

One of the places I thought I would be sure to find at least a certain amount of artists working on the 'edge' of printmaking technologies was the IPCNY (International Print Centre, New York). http://www.ipcny.org/
The IPCNY which has been up and running since the turn of the
century, mainly puts on exhibitions of contemporary printmaking although they occasionally show older works.  

And I was right - I located several artists there, starting with Russell Crotty (USA), who has quite a presence on the internet, so I have just included a link here to his results on Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=... I was not, however,  able to find examples of further 'tradigital" work by him.

The piece featured here is an inkjet with silkscreen and is circular, which seems to be a signature form of Crottys work.  He is seriously interested in Astronomy and it influences his output considerably as a fine artist.

Next we see the work of Carroll Dunham, this one is intaglio and inkjet,
With a considerable curriculum vita it is hard to know what to say that might encapsulate what this artist is about. He makes artworks that have biomorphic feel and they are almost cartoon like. To me his work seems to issue from somewhere within the ‘zone’ of “Abstract Expressionism”. As with Russell Crotty there are numerous website references to his work and so it remains open to the reader as to where to look first though perhaps M.o.M.A., http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?... might be a good place to start.  He has shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has prints in their collection of ‘prints and illustrated book’.


Manuel Castro Cobos. Is an artist I seem to remember spotting in an art gallery when I was studying for my Masters in Barcelona.  I seem to remember at that time that he made images that were very simplified almost mummy like icon/shapes.  Perhaps they were paintings I cannot remember very well.  This does seem possible as my research indicates that he is a artist residing in Cordoba ,Spain.  He teaches in a University in that region.  I find that there’s something I like about his work.  This piece of his is a woodcut and digital print.     I noticed another version of this print, in the  Wrexham Print International 2007
http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/community/arts_c...
The two versions of this print, appear to be printed on diary pages which perhaps he has scanned and then printed out using archival inkjet pigmented ink.

# 4 [28 February 2008]

Today’s post (and I am noticing that these are not frequent enough!!) is based on artworks found on a website of a gallery based in Iowa.  It is http://www.olsonlarsen.com.' The gallery was originally established about twenty years ago or so and shows a range of professional fine artists with about 8 -10 printmakers out of a total of about 30 artists.

I am glad I gave it the 'once over' again as I came across a second artist on there of relevance.

To the first artist, a local, who is called Jeanine Coupe Ryding.  There is no doubt from looking at her work that she is a stunning woodcut artist, creating abstract yet lyrical narratives - if that makes any sense.  The two pieces that I have included here feature wood cut combined with inkjet.

Some of her other media of preference include photo etching with chine colle as well as collage and straightforward inkjet Prints.

The other artist I found at the Olson Larsen Gallery is
Timothy Frerichs, who like Jeanine the aforementioned tradigital artist, completed an MFA in Germany. 
Just from browsing through Timothy’s work on the gallery website,  it would appear that he is quite experimental with materials and not just in terms of printmaking which is mainly intaglio. 
Drawing media include charcoal, pigment, encaustic, oil, and ink.  Substrates include ‘collage on handmade paper’
‘ink on panel’, ‘collaged panel’
 and ‘sandblasted glass’

# 3 [15 February 2008]

Today’s post shows prints found on Flickr which if you are unaware is a huge photo database.  It’s used by a lot of artists of many calibers.  For example the first two prints on view are by people who don’t seem to have printmaking as their main practice.  
Moominsean aka Sean J Rohde is from Phoenix, Arizona and his main preoccupation, really seems to be more focused on toy cameras and old cameras as is evident if you visit his personal website. http://moominsean.blogspot.com/
However he has a collection of images on his Flickr album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjrohde/ though no further tradigital works that I could see.  The work featured here, the first on this post, is untitled and described as inkjet on woodblock.

The next work is again found on Flickr, and is by Ida Kumoji (USA).
Its  "Untitled" and described as linoleum & Digital inkjet print, Ida, seems to be mainly working in the design field so I couldn’t see any further examples of printmaking.  Having said that, the website address is http://www.idaankrah.com for your curiosity/reference.
The work was entered to a print exchange with Print Zero Studios which was set up by Brian Lane and Jeremy Cody in 2003.
I did actually participate in one of these myself, a few years back.  
Their own website seems to be currently offline however they use a Flickr photo album http://www.flickr.com/photos/printzerostudios/
as the window on all the exchanges and show the individual prints made and contributed towards each exchange.

The only thing that I could find out about Charles Mulligan III was that he is into playing golf.    He’s the creator of this next print which is described as drypoint, inkjet and green tea (?)  Again no title.  This was another print exchange entry in one of the Print Zero Studios exchanges.

# 2 [14 February 2008]

http://www.brunodavidgallery.com/index.cfm

One of my earlier discoveries, Carmon Colangelo
is a Canadian Born, American., who lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
The print featured here by Colangelo is described (presumably by the artist) as silkscreen on digital print.

 Where inkjet is concerned , he uses a variety of printmaking processes usually using one technique, at a time,  along with the digital print.   These include collagraph, chine colle or as above silkscreen.

His work might be loosely described as figurative – abstract.

# 1 [16 January 2008]

TRADIGITAL- experimentation in digital print which incorporates silkscreen, relief + intaglio techniques. Through this project I hope to research, learn, question, share and thereby provide an educational vehicle for practicing printmakers.

Relatively recent Internet research to discover printmakers, who are tradigital, has not proved terribly fruitful which is why for some time I have had this idea.  When I became aware of the A.N.
artists talking project, this gave me the impetus to get started.

Initially I shall show some of my own work, to  show what I have been doing in my own printmaking.

At the same time I plan to  conduct research on the internet and publish my findings although as time goes on I shall be distributing “calls to artists” as well as inviting artists to contribute.