www.LindaAdato.com

lindajadato@gmail.com

Linda Adato was born in England and studied at Hornsey College of Art, UK. She immigrated to the United States in 1962 and went to the University of California at Los Angeles, where she received a MA degree in Art Education.

Adato has exhibited her prints throughout the United States and abroad.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Her work is in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, British Museum, DeCordova Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, New York Public Library and other public and private collections. Among her awards are those from the National Academy of Design, NYC, Boston Printmakers, Audubon Artists and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT.

Linda Adato was president of SAGA from 2007-2010.

Michael Arike, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been long-time resident of New York. She earned her BFA at Oklahoma State University and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts, Chicago, IL and the new School for Social Research, New York, NY.

Her many awards include the Karl A Schrag Award at the SAGA Print Exhibition, 2007, a First Prize at the 6th Annual National Small Prints Exhibition, Creede, CO, a Gold Medal in Graphics at the Audubon Artists Annual,2004, and The William H Leavin Prize at the National Academy of Design Annual, 2000.

Ms. Arike’s work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally and her work is included in the collections of the British Museum, London, UK, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, the New York Public Library, New York, NY, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, the Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS and the Portland Museum, Portland, OR.

www.donaxleroad.com

Artist Donald Axleroad draws inspiration from Greek mythology to make connections between the ancient and modern worlds.

Axleroad has received numerous awards from prestigious organizations including The Salmagundi Club, NY, The National Arts Club of NY, The Allied Artist of America, as well as top prizes in many Fairfield County art associations. He has exhibited in major museums on the east coast and in a UN sponsored traveling exhibit of 100 American printmakers. A graduate of Pratt Institute, he has studied with Philip Guston, Richard Linder and Antonio Frasconi.

In addition to pursuing his artistic career, Axleroad has reached out to help dozens of others move forward in their lives. He has sponsored outreach events to educate the public about Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Axleroad is also the founder and Executive Director of the ARI Artist’s Initiative of Stamford which teaches developmentally disabled adults to draw and paint.

www.ricabando.com

Rica Bando was born in Tokyo, Japan and moved to New York City in 1984. She studied lithographic printing at the Art Student’s League of New York and sculpting at the New York Academy of Arts.  Currently, she is working in a studio located in Dumbo, Brooklyn.  Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States and in Japan. Collections of her work are held at The New York Public Library, the Hunterdon Museum of Art, and others.

www.martinbarooshian.org

Martin Barooshian is a leading American printmaker, innovating in color intaglio prints which he began producing in 1970. Barooshian studied printmaking in 1956 with the internationally renowned printmaker, H.W. Hayter. His early work was influenced by the Surrealists, Gaugin, William Blake and Gorky. His subject matter is frequently mythological but he also deals with current affairs as represented by his series of prints on endangered species, and an etching entitled "Olympic Hurdler" which was designed specially for the 22nd Olympiad.

larryBasky@yahoo.com

www.baskygallery.com

I received my BFA from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1966 and later my MA from Adams State University, in Alamosa, Colorado. Ever since I pulled my first print in 1962, I have been hooked on the printing process. I work in many forms of printmaking---serigraphy, intaglio, relief, and mono-prints/types. My small editions are known to be colorful and detailed. My work is in several museums, corporate offices, and many private collections throughout the US and Europe. I also teach serigraphy workshops and private lessons.

www.sherrysmithbell.com

Sherry Smith Bell creates innovative prints and mixed media drawings of houses, barns, doors, windows and nature.  Her art works use the tools of the artist: line, tone, color, ink, shape. Her art works are represented in many museum, university and private collections. She is a member of the Women’s Environmental Artist’s Network, The California Society of Printmakers, The Society of American Graphic Artists and the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.

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Doug Billings was born in Landstul, Germany as an Air Force Brat.  He lived in Europe till the age of 10, when the family moved to Wisconsin.  Doug received a BFA degree from Mankato State University, Minnesota.  He was accepted into the Printmaking Graduate Program by David Bernard and received a MFA degree in Printmaking from Wichita State University.

His exhibition background includes participating in over 20 National & International Juried Exhibitions; including the Print Club International, Philadelphia, PA; the Silvermine National Print Exhibition, New Canaan, CT; the National Works on Paper Exhibition, Somers, NY; the 2005 Boston Printmakers Print Biennial, in 2007, the Hollar Society Gallery Invitational, Prague, Czechosolvakia and the Old Print Shop Gallery, NY, NY.

jaboot@gmail.com

http://www.lafontsee.us/artists/jean-allemeier-boot/index.html

Jean Allemeier Boot resides in Michigan where she maintains her own print studio and practice as a fine artist.  She originally pursued a medical career, worked in the hospital microbiology lab, then returned to school to earn an art degree.  Living in an environment rich with trees and water, the landscape has become a vital part of Jean’s spirit.  LaFontsee Galleries, representing her work in Grand Rapids, Michigan, states, “Her prints and drawings reflect this initial connection to biology and nature, her complex renderings skillfully illustrating the power of nature on a small, intimate scale.”  Jean’s work has been displayed in state, national, and international exhibitions.

www.dougbosley.com

Douglas Bosley graduated from Western Washington University in 2009 with a bachelor’s of fine arts in printmaking and earned an MFA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2012. His work has been included in numerous juried shows nationally and internationally in China, Italy, Japan and New Zealand. He is a recipient of several awards including an Illustrators of the Future award and was awarded first place in the prestigious National Society of Arts and Letters National Competition in Printmaking for 2013. His work is held by several collections including the Southern Graphics Council Print Collection and Archives and the Wisconsin Union Art Collection.

www.deborahbryanprints.com

Deborah Bryan received her Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from East Tennessee State University in 2000. She also holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Kent State University. Prior to coming to Tusculum, Professor Bryan taught as an adjunct instructor for several years in the Department of Art & Design at East Tennessee State University and worked as a studio artist specializing in etchings, monotypes, and book arts. Her work has been shown in over one hundred regional, national, and international juried exhibitions, and is in numerous private, university, and museum collections. She has exhibited at the Red Clay Survey at the Huntsville Museum of Art, the New Orleans Triennial at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Prints USA at the Springfield Museum of Art, the Wrexham Print International in Wrexham, Wales, the Society of American Graphic Artists Juried Members’ Exhibition in Prague, the Halpert Biennial at the Turchin Center in Boone, North Carolina, the International Biennial Juried Print Exhibition at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan, and the Southeastern Juried Exhibition at the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama.

www.kennethbushnell.com

1948-2011

Walter Buttrick exhibited throughout New England and on the West coast. His work is in private
collections in England, Germany, New Zealand and in the USA. Graduating from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston with concentration in painting and printmaking, he further studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Walter generated a volume of etchings, dry points, wood engravings and linoleum block prints, typically pushing the limits of each technique. He was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Boston Printmakers, the Albany Print Club and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk,
Connecticut. His work is represented by The Old Print Shop in New York City.

liz@lizchalfin.com

I’m interested in people - alone and in groups, especially in public gathering places like fairs, parades, museums, transit stations, beaches, shopping malls.  Initially, I’m attracted to the form of the figures, and the feelings a particular posture evokes or the way a group of people form an abstract organic shape as the edges of their bodies merge into one form.  I’m interested in how individuals place themselves in groups, how they create solitude in multitude.  

I think of my art practice as a collaboration between my creative impulses and the techniques I love so much.  I don’t think I could express myself the way I want to without the intervention of the etched copper plate, or the digitally manipulated drawing.  The process mirrors the content - it’s very much about what we choose to retain, what we let slip away, what we bury, how we build memories and construct narratives.

www.joanchiverton.com

@joan_chiverton

I love New York City and have been creating work that captures the city, its people and its music.  I grew up in New York City. My dad Albert Pels was a fine artist, my mom was a writer. I was an award winning art director with ad agencies in the city and then in upstate NY where I raised my three amazing children.

When I returned to New York in 2003, I returned to my first love, drawing. I’ve been painting and illustrating since then for the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications and galleries. Jerelle Kraus in her book All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t) says Joan is a gifted quick sketch artist.

I also went back to school (School of Visual Arts) and discovered etching, monoprints and silkscreen printing. Etching is my favorite. I’m always sketching and started to sketch from life on etching plates at concerts and in jazz clubs or adapt my sketches to etching images (so musicians would not be reversed or left handed). I’m very excited that a series of my musician etchings are represented by The Old Print Shop.

Teaching at:

 FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), Harbor VA Hospital, privately and with special programs at Bard Graduate Center Gallery

 Exhibitions include:

 The Society of Illustrators, exhibits including Solo Show, Sequential Show, Landmark Show, US Air Force Exhibits and more
 Pen and Brush Incorporation of Artists on the Move, Taller Boricua Gallery and Borough Presidents Office
    JVC Jazz Festival Special Event - Mood Indigo: Citibank’s Choices, Challenges & Triumphs  
    Society of Publication Designers, Spot Illustration and Society of Illustrators Annuals
    Sacred Gallery - etchings
    Monmouth Museum - etchings
    Curate NYC 2013 - etching
    Mehu Gallery Prints andDrawings - etchings and monoprints 2013-2015
    National Veterans Art Museum - documenting patients, Harbor VA Hospital Prosthetic Dept 2015
    The NY Society of Etchers @ National Arts Club 2014 & 2015 SAGA 2015

Affiliations include:

Society of Illustrators - Board Member
    NY Cancer Society and Animal Medical Center - Organize & sketch dogs at fund raising events
    Harbor VA Hospital - volunteer teach art and document patients in prosthetic dept  
    US Air Force - documenting missions
    The Ink Well Foundation - working with children in hospitals
    SAGA- Society of American Graphic Artists, new member 2015

www.bridge-press.com

Brian D. Cohen is an educator, artist, and writer. He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with high honors from Haverford College and completed his Master’s degree in Painting at the University of Washington. In 1989 he founded Bridge Press to further the association and integration of visual image, original text, and book structure.

As a printmaker, Brian has shown in forty individual exhibitions, including a retrospective in 1997 at the Fresno Art Museum, and has participated in over 150 group shows. Cohen’s books and etchings are held by major private and public collections throughout the country, including Yale, Harvard, Brown, and Stanford Universities, Middlebury, Smith, Wellesley, Swarthmore, and Dartmouth Colleges, the University of Vermont, The New York Public Library, The Library of Congress, and the Philadelphia and Portland (Oregon) Museums of Art, as well as the United States Ambassador’s residence in Egypt. Brian was the first-place winner of major international print competitions in San Diego, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC., was awarded the Best Book in Show at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair, and has received grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation.

www.coutantgodard.com

www.oldprintshop.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?action=browse&creator_id=17832

coutantgodard@aol.com

Véronique Coutant-Godard is a New York artist born in France.

Her artistic education was acquired in France (Ecole des Beaux Arts), in South Africa (Pottery Studio in Johannesburg) and in the United States (Art Students League in New York City). It spans painting, engraving and design.

Ever since she moved to New York, she has been specializing in printmaking, linoleum cuts, and monotypes.

Her art work is inspired by several experiences she has had, traveling from Europe to Africa, then to North and South America.

She is very receptive to colors, lights and textures, so each time she discovers a new site, she collects and registers all of these sensations in her mind to feed her future work.

Some of her art is currently owned by private collectors in the United States, Switzerland and France. It is also in the collections of the New York Public Library, the New York Art Students League and The Print Club of Albany and National Museum of Printmaking.

She is also represented by The Old Print Shop in New York City.

www.cathiecrawford.com

My work celebrates the extraordinary moments of my life. I seek to capture the truth and beauty of my subjects. Deeply enamored with the ever-changing hues of water, sky and land, I use color for its emotional impact. I have always been especially attracted to water, seeking it out for its restorative powers. On a symbolic level water represents a powerful life-giving force -- a source of replenishment and rejuvenation.
  Some images deal with a particular feeling or emotion I have toward my immediate environment.  Monsieur Blanc n'est pas blanc is a close up view of my very small water garden.  The perfect ecosystem within this one by three foot garden planter mirrored the interconnectedness of the universe.  Likeness of Being is of a Florida heron and his reflection in the water. A trip to Thailand and an interest in Buddhism as well as contemporary Theology evolved into Sab pan yu (Thai for the Enlightened One).

mdicerbo227@gmail.com

http://www.oldprintshop.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?action=browse&creator_id=11

Michael Di Cerbo was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1947. He attended Pratt Institute where he received a BFA in 1971 and an MFA in 1973. He currently lives in Manhattan and is curator of 20-21st Century Art at The Old Print Shop in New York City. He is represented by The Old Print Shop; Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin, Ireland, and The Old Print Gallery, Washington D.C. His work is included in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art; British Museum; Victoria-Albert Museum; National Gallery, Washington D. C.; National Academy of Design, New York Public Library; Brooklyn Museum; and Detroit Institute of Art, among others.

jerleah@aol.com

http://www.joeessig.com

Receiving his BFA at the Philadelphia College of Art and his MFA at the Tyler School of Art, Joe Essig has received numerous prestigious awards and his work appears in many private and museum collections. “My prints show my relationship to the changing face of the Brooklyn waterfront, where I have worked among a community of artists and factory workers for over twenty years. I am drawn to subjects like the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As I study the area at a particular time of day, I see mysterious countenances stepping out of a different age. My etchings utilize a la poupee inking and interpretive wiping to create abrupt contrasts and atmospheric effects to create dramatic moments.”

www.alinefeldman.com

Ms. Feldman was born in 1928 and grew up in Kansas. She attended Washington University (St. Louis) and cites Werner Drewes (design) and Fred Baker (printmaking) as major influences there.

At Indiana University, she studied painting and did graduate work with Seong Moy. Later she studied woodcut with Unichi Hiratsuka, Sacred Treasure. Professional exhibits began at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1979. Ms. Feldman has exhibited in Maryland and across the United States as well as in Europe, Australia and China. Solo Exhibits include New York, London, Washington DC, Baltimore, St. Louis, Honolulu, North Carolina and West Virginia.

Her aerial and panoramic views, urban and pastoral, reside in museum collections at the National Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Worcester Art Museum, Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, Honolulu Academy of Art, Springfield Art Museum, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Mt. Holyoke Art Museum and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aries.

www.cecilybarthfirestein.com

Cecily Barth Firestein has been making art since she was eight years old and went for art lessons in Woodstock, New York. Over the years, she studied with Hans Hoffman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Theodoros Stamos, Hale Woodruff and the printmaker Roberto De Lamonica.

www.csfitzsimonds.com

Born and raised in Virginia, Carol graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in art from Hollins College. She married a career military officer and moved so often she was termed “a traveling printmaker” in one newspaper article about her career. Carol has continued to study taking design, drawing, and printmaking classes at Olympic College in Bremerton, Washington, and the Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia, and workshops with master printmakers such as Carol Wax, Dan Welden, Daniel Heyman, and Nathan Kanofsky.

www.leeannframe.com
Norris Creek Printmaking Studio

Lee Ann lives where she was born and reared, near the shores of Lake MI.  She is the founder of Norris Creek Printmaking Studio and currently teaches at Muskegon Community College.  Lee Ann’s formal art education began at Grand Valley State University, MI (BFA) and at Kendall College of Art and Design, Michigan (MFA).

“I find sanctuary in nature, my most common theme–and the indelible marks of daily life subconsciously come through in my prints.  Occasionally I begin a plate working directly from nature, then resolve it in the studio, attempting to retain the spontaneity and freshness of patterns and textures that lured me out of the studio.  In my other prints one can easily see common objects take on new meaning, a marble that holds a landscape, a worn marble bag that is posturing like a figure.  Once the first mark is made, it becomes a collaboration between myself and the plate.  Layers, surface textures evolve, irregularity and imperfections–like life, eventually find meaning and place.  I work in hand pulled multi-print media techniques of intaglio, woodblock, and lithography.”

Lee Ann’s exhibitions:

She has had prints juried into over 100 International, National, Statewide, and Regional exhibitions, including; 2nd Annual New York Miniature Print Exhibit Manhattan Graphics,NY, NY; 2011, Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial; The Old Print Shop Gallery, NY, NY;  Art Students League, NY, NY; International Society of Experimental Artists, Florida, California and Wales, England; All Media Exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI; MI Arts All Media, Holland, MI; 86th Regional Exhibition, Muskegon, MI; All Michigan, Muskegon Museum of Art; ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI.  

   
Affiliations Include:

Society of American Graphic Artists
South West Michigan Printmakers
International Society of Experimental Artists, Nautilus Fellowship Member
Mid American Print Council

           
Representation:
117 Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Art Cats Gallery, Lakeside, MI
Muskegon Museum of Art Store, Muskegon, MI

Kathleen is a printmaker and painter who grew up in New York City. Her prints are biographical and reflect her love of the city and escapes to beach. In my prints and paintings I like to capture the changing sunlight and shadows of an ordinary day as they fall on old houses and city buildings.

Her prints have been exhibited in local and national galleries and museums. Some museum collections include: the Museum of the City of New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, De Cordova Museum, MA and others.  Some corporate collections include: PepsicoCo Inc., Cushman & Wakefield, Citibank NA and Warner Communications and others.

Kathleen is also teacher; she taught art for 25+ years in Westchester and New York City. She has taught printmaking as an adjunct instructor at Herbert H. Lehman College and the College of New Rochelle, and she is a visiting artist with Arts Westchester.

ericgoldberg.net@gmail.com

www.ericgoldberg.net

Eric Goldberg was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut into a family of artists. He studied at Parsons School of Design, The New School and NYU. He taught painting, printmaking and drawing at colleges and universities for over thirty years. He currently works and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Eric’s work is held by many private, corporate, public collections and museums. Most recently a number of his works have been added to the collections of The National Museum of Fine Arts of The Republic of China, The Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan, The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and The Boston Athenaeum. Many of his works can be seen at The Old Printshop in New York City.

Thoughts about my work:

I am an etcher. I draw on plates of copper with a needle of steel. Drawing has a tactile directness that connects the mind and the hand. It is a two-way connection where the drawing evokes thought and thought evokes drawing. An unintentional gesture of the hand can change the concept in a direction that the mind alone would not have traveled.

 Etching on a copper plate is, by its very nature, a process with many steps from its beginning through its completion. It is a process that is well suited to my way of working. I am able to resolve a drawing that evolves as it develops.  Values and forms, can be decided, resolved and executed during the drawing. As I work, the patterns, made from lines, cross lines and stipples become spontaneous. Patterns and values can be built and enhanced by the layering of successive etches. When the plate is inked and printed, the inverted image becomes an entity onto itself; the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

www.dongorvettgallery.com

These woodcuts express the abstract geometric shapes and distant configurations of our architecture in the Northeast. Upon the sea waters of estuaries and harbors, mirror the play of interweaving lights and darks of buildings and piers crowned by steeples and mast tops. I am fascinated by the ghostly quality of these buildings looming out of the mists, endowed with strength and endurance.

For me, historic architecture represents a bridge between one life-span into another. Abandoned not by time, but by those who built them, our structures remain and continue to wage war with nature’s elements.

http://www.jhubbardprints.net

I enjoy carving furrows into cork and hearing the hissing viscosity of ink as I roll it across the block. The sequential & layered nature of printmaking is the perfect means for building my personal grammar. I relish the surprise of pulling a print from the press & discovering that the image & paper have become one. I appreciate the evolving, organic process of bringing my subject to life.

Subjects include diverse flora & fauna or landscapes from home & travels. My prints are conceived to provide a soul sanctuary where the viewer may contemplate the pulse & poetry of nature~ transformational patterns within land, water, & sky. My art is both idealistic & romantic, traveling a trajectory of my personal experience & perspective.
My permanent home in Indianapolis, Indiana. Summer home is Rustic, Colorado.

http://www.su-lihung.com

Su-Li Hung was born and educated in Taiwan. She is a printmaker, a painter and a writer. Su-Li has been making her woodcut prints for over forty years. She has won numerous awards, including a number of purchase prizes and gold medals. Her work is in 30 museum collections. These include the Fogg Museum, Library of Congress, British Museum, and Cleveland Museum. She is represented by and has exhibited with The Old Print Shop and June Kelly Gallery. In winning a purchase prize at the Delta Print Exhibition, 2010, juror David Kiehl, curator at the Whitney Museum called her print, “Palm Leaf”; “Noteworthy…, It is the cropping of the image and the sensitivity of her cutting that breathes life into this image.” Su-Li Hung has written 31 books that have been published in Taiwan, including books of poetry, essay, short story and has illustrated children books. Her work can be seen at, http://www.su-lihung.com, http://www.oldprintshop.com,

Sourcing imagery from my native Taiwan, I create images that often have a narrative quality: "Little Girl's world" (2014) tells the story of my granddaughter's poetic existence.

Only using the medium of woodcut in printmaking, I innovate by using contemporary techniques and approaches, combining oil based and water based ink.  "Sunset On George Washington Bridge" (2014), is black oil-based ink on top of pink water-based ink.

I very much like black&white it has a simple, clear, basic woodcut vision. In "Palm Leaf"(2009), the dynamic cutting lines created the little wind in the waving palm leaf; delicate and powerful.

Woodcut for me is like carving a two dimensional woodcut sculpture.

www.artofmarthaives.com

After graduating from Antioch College with a BA in Art, Martha spent her career in the fields of advertising and publishing, designing promotional material and illustrating children's books, greeting cards, and book jackets on a freelance basis. In 2008, Martha enrolled at the Art Students League and immediately fell in love with printmaking. Her work ranges from etchings and lithographs to linocuts and white-line woodcuts. Martha enjoys inking and hand-pulling her own prints.

jreidjackson@yahoo.com

http://www.jaynereidjackson.com

A native and lifelong resident of Wisconsin, Jayne attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  After joining a private local print workshop in Madison, AGB Graphics, she began her work in intaglio, mezzotint and monotype.  She is entirely self-taught in the mezzotint technique and is known internationally for her mezzotint work which uses still life elements to examine light, reflection and repetition. Her work has been consistently accepted into national and international print shows and she is a member of five print societies across the US along with several regional art associations.  She has exhibited regularly in group exhibitions with these organizations along with numerous juried shows.  As a member of the International Mezzotint Society, she has coordinated the annual member's print exchange since 2000.  Her mezzotints have also been a part of the International Mezzotint Festival biennial held in Ekaterinburg, Russia since its inception in 2009.  Her works are included in the collections of the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Art, the University of Wisconsin (at Madison, Marshfield, and LaCrosse), the University of Minnesota, Loyola University Chicago, and others.

robertkaplan@cox.net

http://www.oldprintshop.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?action=browse&creator_id=128

 
I am a printmaker and a bookmaker, preferring the process of block printmaking. Cutting each block is an adventure into the unknown, taking on a life of its own.

Stanley Kaplan was born in Brooklyn in 1925. After graduating from the High School of Music and Art he served two years in the U. S. Army during WWII, after which he studied at Cooper Union and Pratt Institute. He taught art at Nassau Community College for thirty years and in 1978 created Tortoise Press for publishing artist books.

www.stevenkatzart.com

skatz26576@aol.com

Robert Kipniss is a well-known painter and printmaker, who has been creating art most of his life. His parents were artists and encouraged him to draw at an early age. Independent and stubborn he disliked receiving instruction on how to work. When his mother encouraged him to study at the Art Students League he would only sign up for a class with a model but no instructor. After graduating high school he went to study at Wittenberg College (now university) in Springfield, Ohio. While there he decided to study literature and become a poet. In 1950 he transferred to the University of Iowa to complete his degree in literature, but he also took a painting class.

In 1951, he entered a painting competition in New York City and was awarded his first one-artist show in a 57th Street gallery. In 1967 he made his first prints, which were drypoints. In 1968, he began making lithographs, creating over 400 images between 1968 and 1990. Since 1990 his printmaking has been almost exclusively in intaglio with the majority being mezzotints. Kipniss prints are in over 70 museums worldwide and numerous private collections, and since that first show in 1951 he has had more than 180 one-artist exhibitions. He has been elected to the National Academy in New York and The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in London.

He is a member of the National Academy of Design, The Century Association, and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London.