Roussau Walks

These are pictures from the next set of prints made with Emily Joyce. This represents the beginning layers of the print-- a grid of eyes. The whole surface will then be completely covered with a web of leaf shapes.

 

You can get a sneak peak of what will happen with the leaf shapes ontop from the vinyl version in the background

Look at the great faces that happen in the printing process!

These are images that get made on the side to get me started printing. Some great accidental compositions!

Wedding Shower Invitations

It was hard to imagine what I would do to make my  own wedding invitations...given loads of references and printing options...really, an overwhelming task! Litho? Screenprint? Relief? Etching? Letterpress? What I did know, was that this would have to be a close collaboration with my soon-to-be, David Lomeli. Here is what we came up with for the shower invitations:

The illustration was done by David, laser cut out of card stock and mounted onto cream Rives BFK

The letterpress printing was done using a photo polymer plate

all was bundled together in a curry colored envelope

 Our thank-yous

Our shower favors

Southern Graphics Council 2010--Philly!!

 

In front of my work at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Collaborating with Benjamin Franklin by City Hall in Philadelphia

 Fellow Tamarind graduates Lee Turner, myself, Deborah Chaney, Cameron Dye, Myungwon Kim, and Jeremy Leckenbusch

and more exciting printing as soon as I returned!

PARROT 1

Parrot 1 cover, next to it's predecessor SPARROW

The interior

The back cover

 Author, Stephanie Rioux and publisher, Matthew Timmons

This is a wonderful collaborative effort started with my friend, Matthew Timmons, which is one of my few endevours involving creative writing.  The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press, based in Los Angeles,  is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run. PARROT, is a direct reference to SPARROW published by Black Sparrow Press in the late 1960's.  SPARROW was printed using only handset type, and now, PARROT is being produced using more modern conventions: screenprinting and laserjet printing. 

The books were printed on Mohawk Via Satin. 

Individual copies can be bought through Insert Press here, as well as preordered copies of the series in it's entirety.

Rubble Curtains

This project was done with a former instructor of mine at Otis, Melissa Thorne (Fol Chen). She came to me with plans to make a large-scale installation for a gallery show in Houston, Texas.  She was working with the patterns found on sound walls on the sides of  freeways--made to simulate stacked rocks.  Together, we screenprinted 3 sets of linen curtains, in 2 patterns, to work, in a sense as sound curtains within the space.  Melissa also produced a record that was playing during the course of the show; Side 1, her cover of Landslide, Side 2, her cover of Solid as a Rock. Amazing!

 

The work installed:

 

MORE HANDS!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

The above photos are of the second phase to Emily Joyce's "Hands and Snakes" series. The first half were mentioned before in the entry HANDS, and are now featured here with their finishing touch-- wild gestural snake figures painted across the print with gouache. So far, each series is made up of 3 larger scale prints, and 1 smaller scale print. Each set refers to  a single vinyl version Emily had done previously. As each print is completed, she continues to abstract and edit the imagery through color and placement.

The finished products:

 

Vast Intransitive Acts/CANAL

Here are some images of prints I have completed recently for 2 separate events.

 

This 12-color screen print was done for CANAL, an online gallery that also represents in a Highland Park, CA store font.  The site, directed by artist Jessica Minckley, also created a monthly edition called FEATURE consisting of  prints and multiples priced for artists and recession-proof collecting.  My printed edition, of 13, will be included in FEATURE soon.

This 24-color screen print was done for a print exchange to be shown at this year's Southern Graphic Council, in Philidelphia.  Jennifer Anderson organized the portfolio of prints with an experimental theme-- "Vast Intransitive Acts."  Each participating artist entered different source material images from the internet onto a blog.  From there all artists were to refer to the source material to help inform their edition of prints.  Of the 12 participants, some images were repeated in unexpected ways.  Each artist received their own portfolio and the others will be shown at SGC and other locations.

JUSTICE-revisited

Some may remember the project "JUSTICE"--letters printed on pairs of men's slacks, back in October.  Artist Saeri Cho asked me to revise the project for a new showing; switching the substrate (surface on which a print is received) from mens folded pants to many kinds of clothing items. The result was much more unexpected, and gave me the opportunity to choose locations where the design would print much cleaner, and more legible.  Some garments even got some experimental patterning.

HANDS!

The talented Miss Emily Joyce had a new print project to attack--hands!  This new set of prints are the same dimension as the first set of prints we had worked on (eyeballs)--55" x 88."

Afterwards, Emily painted large loose snake-like marks over the entire print--more pictures to come!!!

Our color samples and "tokens" used to mark the placement for each hand

Amazing vintage "Mini-Swinger" hairdryer--perfect match for the print!

The finished products:

 

Snakes were painted with Acryla Gouache