I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to San Francisco Bay Area in April for the SGC (Southern Graphic Conference) - an international conference of printmakers. I saw old friends from KALA, MPC, and CSP, and artists who have taken my workshops or would like to in the future. I started out in San Jose, visiting good friend and artist, Katherine Levin-Lau. Below is a photo of her in her studio with new etching press in back and a recent monotype.
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| Opening Reception at Acadamy of Art |
One of the highlights was visiting printshops such as Crown Point Press where we saw print demos. Below is a friend, Fanny Retsek, a team of three printers working on a 4 color etching with chine colle.
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Fanny Retsek (top left
- printing at Crown Point Press |
I was lucky to arrive at Crown Point early and get a private showing of John Cage prints to a small group of us by founder of Crown Point, Kathan Brown.
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| Kathan Brown showing John Cage prints at Crown Point |
On Friday we visited studios in the East Bay, among them, KALA Institute, where I worked in the past as an artist in residence. Seiko Tachibana was giving a demo of her small black and white prints - and they are exquisite.
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| Seiko Tachibana demo at KALA Inst |
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| Large scale etching/ monotype Print Demo at KALA |
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| Large format printing at KALA |
We also visited The Compound Gallery and Studios, where there was lots of printing going on. Art Hazelwood was silkscreening chocolate on tortillas - darn I missed that! But I did see the surprise floorshow with this crazy guy bumping and grinding among the printmakers - pretty hilarious. We also visited Ca College of Art where we saw demos in printing on Glass - very interesting.
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| Demo of large relief print at The Compound Studios, Oakland |
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Surprise floorshow at The Compund Gallery
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| demo at CCA glass printing |
Great seeing old friends and making new ones - it was a great week of fun and art! Thanks everyone!
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| Glen and Carol Vossler, Blueed Studios, enjoying dinner by the Bay |
