work from the last couple of weeks

Shows just came down at the Emerson in Bozeman and Missoula Art Museum. Upcoming is a showing of Cataclysm at the Holter Museum and the Bozeman Studio Tour Nov. 3 and 4. 

Recents from Instagram

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recent imagery from Communities West III. 

Communities West II

Here is the entirety of Communities West II. I have titled each print with the Artist's name. This has been one of my favorite projects to co-curate with Andrew Rice every couple of years and am so looking forward to this years exchange. 

Colophon - Communities West II

Gina Adams

Jill AnnieMargaret

James Bailey

Madison Becker

Emily Browne

Erik Brunvand

Sandy Brunvand

Kellie Cannon

Christa Carleton

Christa Carleton

Todd Christensen

Jason Clark

Muriel Condon

Justin Diggle

Elizabeth Dove

Emily Dyer-Barker

Stefanie Dykes

Jay Fox

LA Hoffman

Gesine Janzen

Tressa Jones

Hilary Lorenz

Abe McCowan

Monika Meler

Blind emboss image. If you squint you can see it. Have to see this one in person:)

Kimiko Miyoshi

Adam Montoya

Conor Mullen

Stephanie Newman

Meg Pohlod

Kathy Puzey

Andrew Rice

David Rice

Mark Ritchie

Beth Robinson

Robert Royhl

Melissa Schulenberg

David Williams

Sukha Worob

Sukha Worob

Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie

Melanie Yazzie

Qian Zhao (Chino)

more from the collection

I spent the evening going through a few portfolios. Below are some select images from the exchanges. I need a framing genie. *poof* and everything is beautifully framed. The issue with working in frame shops for years has become that it is like pulling teeth to frame anything. This may be why my work turned into installation and works on panel. The exchanges were "Rocky Mountain Response" organized by Melanie Yazzie after RMPA in Salt Lake City and "Disguise" juried by Alexa Unser and David Wischer. 

woodcut by Eunkang Koh

Lithograph by Kathryn Polk

woodcut by Melanie Yazzie

Woodcut by Sylvia Taylor

My piece for the "Disguise" portfolio. I believe I was struggling with the weight of moving, leaving grad school, having our first child. I also needed new jeans apparently. Softground etching over a lasercut relief surface.

Great hand colored woodcut by Neal Harrington

Reorganizing and rediscovering gems in the collection

Big changes in the studio over the last little bit. Reorganizing and making a more functional working space in the studio. It's a dumpster fire right now but well on its way to a better workspace. As part of the process I'm moving flat files and re organizing my own prints and collection. I never get tired of looking through trades, purchases and portfolios from friends and colleagues that have come into my possession over the last decade. A longer (and better shot quality) cataloging process may begin in short order but for now here are a few shots of things that brought me joy today. More to come soon. 

small mezzotint by Art Werger

just a bunny. This was a print from a block made for demo at the WaterWorks Museum by Calli Nissen. 

Detail from a photopolymer piece by Sara Schleicher. 

Detail of an etching by David Williams. 

I think this one was by Justin Powell (@justindangerson) from a class in undergrad. Piece is titled "Red Violin" 

detail from one of Julie Williams' amazing  reduction woodcuts. 

Detail from a many colored silkscreen by Bill Thompson. Dave brought him in as a visiting artist when we were at NAU many years ago. They were printed using hand stretched screens, none of those fancy aluminum frame jobbies. DIY silkscreen at its best.

Lastly a detail from a Sean Star Wars print that I had totally forgotten about! Reasons to go hunting back through the collections:) This was part of a grab bag set of prints sold by Canonball Press

Updates on the herd

Hoffman is hoping for a horizon line and some rolling hills, not bad for a bunch of high schoolers first woodcuts!  

There might be a pig in the mix.  

Mooooooooooore printmakers on the way 

Prints and pots

rolled out a new Zamenhof's Trials piece to fill a void in the house and finally hung some prints from the collection. My aversion to framing notwithstanding it is great to have Christa Carleton and Jason Clark on the wall. They are both right in front of the dinner table and have provided some good conversations with the kiddos   

4'x5' stamps on mulberry  

Dark thoughts with dark lighting. Print by Christa Carleton and a Dave Peters mortar and pestle photo bomb.  

One of my favorites by Jason Clark. Shelf o ceramics with work from Drew Nicklas, Greg Quinn, Jared Gabriel, Ryan Mitchell, Chris Bienek, Ernest Forward and Larry Meagher represented and a Just Noise piece in between it all.  

Just part of the herd

We have been talking about collaboration and the power of a group of people set towards a similar goal in my drawing class. This has coincided with the start of our linocut unit so as a preliminary exercise I have the students cutting and printing as many cows as possible over the next couple of days. Below is the beginning of the herd and hopefully the beginnings of a few printmakers too;)  

Students were given almost no direction about the cows. The only rule has been that during class they couldn't look at any kind of cow reference. 

The herd in the beginning

Nothing here but us cows  

Doorknob DIY

My class is once again working on woodcuts so I made my semesterly trip over to ace hardware for their largest maple cabinet knobs. Cut off the mounting screw and screw the two knobs together and Voila! You get my favorite hand printing tool all for under $3. This is the tool I used for two years to print the key images on John Buck's blocks.  

Maple cabinet knob barens

And they're off

Well those went quick! Thanks to all who responded! If you didn't get a sticker in time zip over to the /studio page and pick a few up along with a dumpster fire card. When you just can't yell any more at least you can write it down and put a sticker somewhere moderately inappropriate. 

Welcome to the goat show

Printing some stickers to assuage daily angst. I am sending out free stickers to the first 20 responders on any platform, send your address and I'll send a sticker! If you miss the offer or want more they will show up in the slash studio section of my site in the next week. PM me for more info!  

Welcome to the goat show