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Monotype demo day

#printmaking #monotype #art #umn #beer

Having fun with photo litho.

Karlijn Holzenthal

#process #Photo Lithography #printmaking #print #art

andrewluellen

"Untitled Self Portrait #1" Lithograph

andrewluellen

"Is Love Lost" Animation/Flipbook Digital Scans from 4 Layer Screenprint

Selections from beginning litho...

#lithography #printmaking #prints #art #studio #umn

1. Beautiful Holy Jewel Home of the Original Rhinestone Cowboy by Loy Bowlin, Mixed Media, house-sized, c. 1985-1990

2. Loy Bowlin, photograph by Chuck Rosenak, 1991

3. Dots Obsession by Yayoi Kusama, Mixed Media, gallery installation, 1998

4. Mirror Room (Pumpkin) by Yayoi Kusama, Mixed Media, gallery installation, 1991

5. Salvation Mountain by Leonard Knight, Mixed Media, mountain-sized, c. 1985-2013

6. Salvation Mountain (interior) by Leonard Knight, Mixed Media, mountain-sized, c. 1985-2013

7. The Swimming Cities of Serenissima by Swoon (and various collaborators), Mixed Media, raft-sized, c. 2009-2012

8. Miss Rockaway Armada by Swoon (and various collaborators), Mixed Media, raft-sized, c. 2006-2009

9. Utitled 340 by Philadelphia Wireman, Wire and found objects, 7” x 5”, c. 1970

10. Untitled 289 by Philadelphia Wireman, Wire and found objects, 4.5” x 2”, c. 1970

Loy Bowlin’s home and much of his work were acquired by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin and I got the chance to visit it when I was in middle school. It has since been one of my favorite exhibitions, so I built this online gallery around some of his characteristics. Bowlin is intriguing because his work seems silly and frivolous but he spent his life dedicated to it and obsessed over it. Loy Bowlin is known as the Original Rhinestone Cowboy quite literally because he covered everything in rhinestones, glitter, and sequins. Like Bowlin, Yayoi Kusama seems to find joy in her work. She has been obsessing over polka dots since she was little. Salvation Mountain is a literal folk art mountain developed for over 25 years until the artist, Leonard Knight’s, death earlier this year. Like a lot of folk art, this is a religious monument, created by Knight to share his faith through his life’s work. Printmaker, street-artist, and activist Swoon and her studio team have been creating large-scale rafts for the past few years out of junk. They are then sent down rivers with crews aboard. A selection of Swoon and her crew’s boats are currently being displayed as part of an installation called “Submerged Motherlands” at the Brooklyn Museum. Finally I’ve included the “Philadelphia Wireman”. Not much is known about the Philadelphia Wireman. About 1,200 wire sculptures were found after his or her death (or so it is assumed) outside of a home in 1982 in Philadelphia. Whoever it was put an incredible amount of time and energy into these mysterious little sculptures.

The artists included in this online exhibition show an immense passion for one thing, or one work of art. I partially chose these works because of how impractical they would be to display in a physical gallery, but how simple they are to display together online. They are all monumental works or collections of works. They may be considered outsider art or folk art may not have always been regarded as “high art”, but now they are valuable and celebrated works. Yayoi Kusama’s work has sold for over $5 million and The Folk Art Society of America decided that Salvation Mountain was worthy of preservation. These pieces were created with whatever materials the artists had, simply to keep the artists making work throughout their lives. The results were expansive anthologies of years of fixation on one thing.

-Makenzie Flom

#loy bowlin #yayoi kusama #leonard knight #swoon #philadelphia wireman #salvation mountain #rhinestone cowboy

Peter Whiteman's Curation

The human figure has saturated visual culture from the time that the first depictions were scratched on to the walls of cave. Everything from interpretations of gods and deities to masterpieces showing biblical scenes to Andy Warhol’s famous celebrity portraits have been inspired by the human form. We are emotionally, physically and spiritually excited by references to ourselves and those like us.

The figure inevitably relates to the viewer, producing questions about the subject. In this sense, works containing human forms inherently produce a narrative. I have chosen to present a number of artists whose work blurs the line even further between portraiture and narration. It is in the narrow space between storytelling and truthful depiction that these works reside.

#portrait #human figure #printmaking

evamue

Pairings / polarity

mole like creature and a bat like creature, both nearly blind but one in the air one in the ground.

Eva Mueller

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Intaglio print on plates with history

I wanted to set these odd creatures in a stone railing setting that looked like part of a church.

to lose the preciousness of the plates, we used plates that had a history on them from other students. I worked at cleaning off the plates and the marble stone setting used any abnormalities as texture and veins.

Eva Mueller

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game style stone walkway tessellation.

i started with a square and drew half of the stones on the outside edge of two sides, i cut out around those stones and attached the removed edge to the edge parallel originally. then i drew the other half of the stones so that when the edges meet up again the stones will match up. Then i filled in the remaining space with rocks and copied the stones to dura-lar with a paint marker. after exposing the screen the stones lined up to create a tessellating pattern.

Eva Mueller

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Color study

same wood block print, with different color variation. is that a camera or a laser? is that guy falling in water with sharks or fire? that fish looks O.K. but maybe he is a mutant…

Eva Mueller

Michael Tejeda's curatorial assignment

Tattooing has a long and rich history in cultures around the world. Some use them as a rite of passage while others used them simply as a form of self-expression. Whatever the reasoning is for the marking of their flesh one thing is for certain: tattooing has moved away from its simplistic roots and has evolved into a medium of fine art. In fact tattooing has become such a powerful force in the art community that it is influencing artist around the world.

Presented for you are works of art that push the boundaries of what most consider possible in tattooing. Also I have presented a handful of artist whose work not only draws inspiration from the tattoo community, but inspire it as well.