Bradford Wins Big at The Butler

Martha Jane Bradford's digital drawing, Sheepscot Village Trees, won first prize in the 72nd Midyear Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Avenue, Youngstown  OH  44502, July 13 through August 24, 2008. 

The juror for the exhibition was Don Eddy, a noted photorealist painter who shows with Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York City.  http://www.butlerart.com/ . 

The show was reviewed in The Vindicator 080713 by Rebecca Sloan, pages D1-2.

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Martha Jane Bradford
Solo Show Coming Up

"Martha Jane Bradford: Digital Drawings" will be on view in the Novak Gallery, The Beecher Center, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, October 15 - December 30, 2006. The opening will be from 1 - 3 pm on October 15, and I will be giving a talk on digital drawing at 1 pm in the Zona Auditorium.

"The Beecher Center, housed in the south wing of the Butler's Youngstown location, is the first museum addition dedicated solely to new media and electronic art. The facility regularly displays works of art that utilize computers, holography, lasers and other digital media. The Beecher Center houses the Zona Auditorium, a digital media theater designed for performance art and high-definition film presentations."

Other Places
Bradford page at the Butler: http://www.butlerart.com/DisplaySingleExhibit.asp?ID=44
Clark Gallery: http://www.clarkgallery.com/
Nan Mulford Gallery: http://www.nanmulfordgallery.com/
Uptown Gallery http://www.uptowngallerynyc.com/
World Printmakers: http://www.worldprintmakers.com/english/bradford/bradfor2.htm

Contact:
martha@marthavista.com

"all together now"
Mel Strawn's Retrospective at the Denver Central Library

If you're one of those people who thought digital printmaking began in the nineties of the last century, don't miss this digital pioneer's retrospective.

We were fascinated by Mel's remarks on the print below: "This print is almost 8 feet high. The barbed wire is real, the top half is oil on canvas with some encaustic in the wing panels.. the bottom is a digital print of a bottle cap (one of my "coins") into which an originally very tiny pen drawing of a crouching Korean PW is digitally imbedded; it is from my sketch book of 1952, Koje-do Prisoner of War Camp. The number is made up but is like all the numbers we give ourselves and others as ciphers for actual human beings. The light (white calligraphy) character is Toriko, Japanese for Prisoner of War. Interestingly, it is made up of three other characters: man, hand and child. The application being "... MAN, constrained (held by HAND) is like a CHILD."

"PW Medal" digital
print by Mel Strawn

April Vollmer is off again, for a five-day workshop in Santa Fe, NM for Making Art Safely, July 24-28. There she'll be teaching the traditional woodcut technique of Japan. It is the same basic technique used by the Japanese ukiyoe masters in the 18th century, offering rich, light-fast color, precise registration, non-toxic cleanup and printing without a press. The workshop includes an historical overview and will focus on how the technique can be useful for contemporary printmakers.

A wide range of techniques including tsubushi (flat printing), goma zuri (sesame seed printing), and bokashi (gradation printing) will be demonstrated in a pleasant fume-free environment. Participants will design, cut and print an edition of woodcuts on Japanese paper. The class will also cover sharpening tools, using the kento registration system and printing with a baren. The materials fee includes a set of Japanese cutting tools, wood, paper and color.

April has been teaching this technique since 1998, will present this special five-day comprehensive workshop. Beginner and advanced printmakers will enjoy exploring this alternative Eastern printmaking method.

You Missed Santa Fe? There's Still (New) Hope!
In September April presents a three-day workshop (September 25, 26 and 27, 2006) at the New Hope for Art Center on the Holly Hedge Estate in New Hope Pennsylvania.

The University of Minnesota is pleased to host the 5th Juried Minnesota National Print Exhibition. It will have a double venue: The Katherine E. Nash Gallery and followed with an exhibition at the Tweed Museum of Art. We extend an invitation for submissions. Please share this with colleagues and artists working in print media. See PDF file version for prospectus which is attached and available at The Department of Art website: http://art.umn.edu. Feel free to contact us with any questions: mnpb@umn.edu, 612-624-7900.

"Jugalbandi"
Gallery Onetwentyeight
February 4 to 28, 2004
128 Rivington Street
New York NY
Tel: 212-674-0244
Gallery Hours: 1pm-7pm Wednesday-Sunday
Curated by Deepanjana Danda Klein

A show of contemporary American and South Asian artists breaking traditional boundaries, deriving inspiration from each other's land. The show was the inspiration of my friend Deepanjana, who wanted to show the cross influences of Indian and American artists. I had six pieces in the show. I made two prints especially for the show "Breathing In" and "Breathing Out," both Japanese waterbase woodblock prints. I've been printing my woodblocks several times on a sheet to create mandala patterns, and these two have an additional layer of silk-screened insects printed in silver and gold over the surface.

April Vollmer

Intimations: Shadows, Reflections and Metaphysical Marks
The prints of Audrey Feltham.
Opens at he Prarie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta,
Canada on January 17th and shows until February 19th, 2004.

Then travels to:
University of New Brunswick Art Centre, Fredericton,
New Brunswick. Opens March 1st and will show until
April 16th, 2004.

Then:
The Omma Centre for Contemporary Art, Crete, Greece is
hosting a solo exhibition of Audrey Feltham's prints in
March, 2004. Artist in attendance.

Jennifer Waelti-Walters
"Figure It Out" and is a
A three-person show at the Fran Willis Gallery
Store St, Victoria B.C. Canada
Oct 2-18, 2003
Opening reception, Sat. Oct 4th, 2-5 p.m.
Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat. 11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

René Böll und/and Gu Gan

Ausstellung in der / Exibition in the

Deutschen Botschaft Peking vom 18. - 24. Oktober 2002
German Emabassy in Beijing from 18.th - 24th of October 2002

Eröffnung: 18. Oktober 2002 um 17.00
Opening: 18th of October at 5 p.m

Deutsche Botschaft Peking/German Embassy Peking
Kulturreferat/Cultural Section
Dr. Peter Mohr
100600 Peking, Chaoyang Qu,
17 Dongzhimenwai Dajie
Tel.: (0086-10)-6532-2161#1304
Fax: (0086-10)-6532-5336
Homepage: www.deutschebotschaft-china.org
Mail: ku100@peki.auswaertiges-amt.de

The first collection of Sabra Field’s landmark prints, with commentary by the artist, now in a second edition with thirteen additional images.

"Her prints hang in the boardrooms of some of North America’s biggest corporations—and in the cabins of some of New England’s most rustic fishing camps. Among the few contemporary artists whose work has found an enthusiastic following well outside the traditional world of collectors and fine-art experts, Sabra Field has attracted a diverse and growing national audience. Her 1987 Vermont Bicentennial commemorative stamp, for example, depicting yellow farm fields, a red barn, and blue mountains, quickly became one of the U.S. Postal Service’s best-selling issues, with more than 60 million copies purchased."

University Press of New England:http://www.upne.com/1-58465-266-7.html