BATTIN/MORPHY WEDDING

Invitation

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Thank You

Here is a set of invitation stationary I printed for my childhood friend, Rachel Battin.  She was looking for me to emphasize the blue hydrangea found all over the location of her wedding.  The set of 150 were letterpressed on Crane's Lettra in Pearl White and the envelopes are Lake from Papersource.

MIKE REESE

Here is an image of a 7-color screenprint edition I did for artist Mike Reese! you can buy other apparel items with his work at PhreshCru.com

DESPAIR BEYOND DESPAIR

   This is a poster I did for artist Marco Rios to accompany his newest film shown at LAX ART in Culver City.   

      "For his project at LA><ART, Rios will continue his investigation of corporality and death, while also inquiring into the representation of artists and art in popular culture. Using Dario Argento’s 1970 film The Bird With The Crystal Plumage as a point of departure, Rios will respond to the metaphorical and literal notions of dying inside the gallery space. For this project, Rios will re-stage a scene from Argento’s film where an American writer witnesses a murder inside a gallery space and while attempting to assist the suffering victim, is trapped in the gallery’s foyer only to watch the victim bleed to death while he waits for the police. Rios will shoot a new film of this scene where he will play the murderer, the victim, the witness, and the police detective, hoping to embody all perspectives of these characters himself as he deconstructs the literal and metaphorical layers of this gruesome event."

   The lithographs were printed in an edition of 50 onto Rives heavyweight paper.

PARROT 5, 6 & 7

Parrot continues! Please refer to the posts PARROT 1 and PARROT 2, 3 & 4 for detailed descriptions of this ongoing poetry project I have been collaborating with Insert Press on.

HUNT/FINLAN WEDDING

This is a set of invitations I did for my dear dear friend Victoria. She wanted me to make something with the aesthetics of Big Biba, the iconic and popular London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. So, I designed this set with the color pallet of champagne, royalty and mirrors.
Each were letterpressed using photopolyer plates onto Cranes's Lettra paper in Ecru.

2011 FINE ART BFA SENIOR CATALOGS

These covers glow in the dark! Congratulations!!

the front cover

the inside cover

bound

 250 covers printed on Cougar cover paper in glow in the dark yellow ink

BOUQUET

 

I made this print for someone who was looking for a personal wedding gift to give to her newly married friends. She had read the poem, Bouquet by Bei Dao, at their wedding, and wanted to commemorate the sentiment. She had asked me to design the the layout of the text to look sort of woodcut and loose, but because the poem is so long and reads in a way that encourages visuals within each line, I thought it  better to individualize each line in an immediate way that set each apart, setting the type cleanly and varying size. The poem was screenprinted in 3 different colors and paper types, leaving her with a decision to make!

ANDY WARHOL ZOMBIE

Every semester I have my LMU screenprinting students participate in a print exchange. They decide on a theme and consistent size and each person works on a print they would have to exchange with all of the other students.  This semester's theme? Monster/zombie/robot portraits. So I did the grandfather of screenprint--Andy Warhol. The funky red background was done using a color test screen!

SUPERFANCIES

"EAT"

"Butter Kiss"

"Reverse Consumption"

"XO"

"The Last Sandwich"

"Stop Doing What You're Doing"

"Take Me Home Tonight"

Superfancies portfolio box

Printing in Matt's Old Town Pasadena studio, provided for him through The Armory Art Center's Artist in Residence Program from Feb. 5-June 5, 2011.

Matt signing his prints

What have I been up to lately? Working on the above suite of prints with artist Matt MacFarland.  Matt was introduced to me through CANAL director, Jessica Minckley, who was interested in including his work on the site's monthly edition called FEATURE, consisting of prints and multiples priced for artists and recession-proof collecting.
   When I first met with Matt to talk about the possibilities of translating his work through print, I could see that painting film positives for screenprintnig would be a perfect compliment to his method of working. Matt hand painted individual color layers with black gesso on mylar, giving the printed versions a nice painterly less-than-perfect look that was really refreshing, compared to the other tightly registered work I had been working through.
  Along with some additional wood type letterpress elements, the food and text themed suite turned out  to be a coyly satiric and sentimental set of prints. It was a total joy to print.
The edition 15 can be purchased for an extremely reasonable price of $150 through CANAL!

Kaczmarek/Davis Wedding Invitations

These invitations were made for a wedding held in Poland. I was excited to see how the typeface would letterpress with it's Polish accent marks.  The clean lines and simplicity really exploit the best of letterpress' attributes. I'm really happy with the way these invitations turned out.
With only 20 printed of each, these photopolymer plate printed, gray on white Crane's Lettra invitations feel like individually set letters to their loved ones.