Baren Digest Monday, 7 April 2003 Volume 23 : Number 2184 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Lyon Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 09:16:12 -0500 Subject: [Baren 21218] Rejection... Last December, April Vollmer posted an announcement about the 4th Biennial International Miniature Print Competition 2003 sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut. The miniature format intrigued me. So I made an out-of-character-for-me submission of three precious tiny little prints. ! The juror, print collector Reba White Smith, did not jury my prints into the show, and Anthony (Tony) Kirk, director of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, wrote me a rejection letter and asked me to telephone him. Tony used to head the etching department at Ken Tyler's famous Tyler Graphics. He's a master printer who has collaborated with major American artists and he's taught printmaking at a number of universities. He also turns out to be a Baren member and Forum lurker! On the phone, Tony told me that he was disappointed that my prints hadn't been juried into the show, as he would have awarded my print, "Dana" http://www.mlyon.com/images/tiny_aizuri-e_dana.jpg a "Director's Award" (if you view the image, remember that the actual height of the figure is about three inches). Tony emailed me: "During our exhibitions I always put together an educational display relating to the current exhibition. We have two glass vitrine cabinets for this and they are placed in the corridor leading from the gallery to the main print studios. I am going to place there some miniature prints from my own collection including a woodcut by George Roualt and a wood engraving by Thomas Bewick. I would like to buy your woodcut of the standing female nude and include it in this display. I was wondering if you could send me a description of your technique and the blocks so that I could include them in the display. <...> I already have two other artist members of our center who have expressed an interest in buying it. Even although it is not included in the juried show, I am confident that I can sell several impressions for you. "Let us hope that when the next miniature print competition rolls around in two years that your submissions will be juried in and that you receive the awards that your work merits. Meanwhile I am very pleased to own one of your works. Please send the material for the display case to my attention at <...> "We will soon be planning our summer workshop brochure which will include a week long workshop in hanga printmaking by artist in residence Paul Furneaux, the artist whose studio/workshop was destroyed in the Edinburgh fire. Perhaps you would be interested in doing a similar workshop in the fall/winter or in spring 2004?" Isn't that just the nicest rejection you've ever read?!? So it turns out that the three prints will be on exhibit after all, along with their blocks, a description of my process, and some of my tools. I sure am happy to have a "LITTLE" of my work on display (alongside a Roualt for God's sake!!!) even though I was rejected from the competition... Weird, eh? But very nice! Just wanted to 'crow' a bit and to publicly thank Tony Kirk and the CCP in Norwalk... - -- Mike ------------------------------ From: Barbara Mason Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 07:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Baren 21219] Re: Rejection... Mike, Congratulations! Wanda, Sharri and I met Paul Furneaux when we were in Edinburgh and we so saddened to hear of his work all being destroyed. I had forgotten this so was glad to hear he is doing well now and teaching. This is most exciting news for you! I have to admit this is the best rejection I have ever seen..... best to you, Barbara ------------------------------ From: ArtfulCarol#aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 13:54:58 EDT Subject: [Baren 21220] Re: Rejection... Congratulations!!!! That is a COOL "rejection. Carol Lyons ------------------------------ From: Aqua4tis#aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:31:26 EDT Subject: [Baren 21221] Re: Rejection... mike congratulations!!!! its a wonderful print georga ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 14:16:59 -0700 Subject: [Baren 21222] Re: Rejection... How wonderful! Congratulations, Mike. I am flabbergasted that your little prints didn't make it into the juried exhibition - but I think this is a much better deal for you. I love all the itty bitty ones - maybe we could consider one of the exchanges (non-regular size?) to be a miniature? Wanda on 4/6/03 7:16 AM, Mike Lyon at mikelyon#mlyon.com wrote: > The juror, print collector Reba White Smith, did not jury my prints into > the show, and Anthony (Tony) Kirk, director of the Center for Contemporary > Printmaking, wrote me a rejection letter and asked me to telephone him. ------------------------------ From: "Robert Canaga Gallery" Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 15:20:32 -0700 Subject: [Baren 21223] Re: Rejection... Now I feel bad that I got in:) RC ------------------------------ From: Chromoxylo#aol.com Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 00:15:23 EDT Subject: [Baren 21224] Open Studio Santa Cruz Dear Barenners, I am hosting an Open Studio in conjunction with the exhibit Living Proof: Contemporary Printmakers of Santa Cruz County presented by the Pajaro Valley Arts Council and Gallery in Watsonville, California. I will be showing my tightly packed letterpress shop complete with a turn-of-the-century cylinder press and a circa 1856 R. Hoe Washington Hand-press with 400+ fonts of type where I produce show posters printed with woodcuts and linocuts plus wood and lead type. I also make wood-engravings and hanga woodcuts (actually I keep making the same one over and over but that's another story). A Google search for 'Ritz Sho-Card' will bring up a recent article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, but it's not as much fun as seeing the shop in person. Anyone close to Santa Cruz should consider themselves most welcome. Paul Ritscher Date & Time: Saturday, April 12 - 10am until 4pm Location: Ritz Sho-Card Company (Located in Seabright Cannery, 1 block east of the intersection of Seabright and Murray - Look for directional posters (of course). 104 Bronson Street, #5 Santa Cruz, CA 95062 Telephone: 831-426-3600 ------------------------------ From: John and Michelle Morrell Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 21:58:37 -0800 Subject: [Baren 21225] Editions--again After looking through the resource books I happen to have and 23 pages of Google Search of the Baren Archives, I still haven't seen this question addressed, so I'm asking the forum, (especially Barbara Mason): If you have an edition of prints and you want to alter by hand one of them (after the printing process), how do you deal with that in terms of numbering? Recently I altered a print for a special but local occasion. I used an artist's proof and noted it was altered by hand work on the authenticity certificate. I didn't feel the slightest bit guilty about that one, given the time frame and the non-commercial purposes of the show. However, now I want to take one out of a different edition and paint on it for a more commercial show. Can I take one out of the numbered edition and note on the authenticity certificate that it has been altered by hand (watercolor painting) or should I again use an artist's proof to do that, or how should I do it? I certainly don't want to do an entire second edition of prints that are altered after printing, but I do want to paint just one for this particular occasion. To my knowledge, editioning conventions are only guidelines and very rarely law. So, I guess I'm asking what Miss Manners (no insult intended, Barbara--I used to read her all the time) would advise on this. Thanks in advance for any input anyone would care to post. Michelle Morrell jmmorrell#gci.net ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 17:26:49 +0900 Subject: [Baren 21226] Hishiki-san's new web pages ... A couple of years back I sent over a link to a series of calendar prints made by an acquaintance of mine over here, Mr. Hishiki, and many people seemed to enjoy them. He has just now finished his new website, and there are a lot more prints up for inspection. The text on these pages is all in Japanese, so will be gobbledegook in your browser, but the images should be clear (click them for larger views). (The page formatting may also be mixed up because of the language problem, so you may have to scroll over to the right to see some images ...) Here are the page links: Some prints he made for entering in group exhibitions: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/hishiki-k/koubo/ Calendar: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/hishiki-k/cal10/ Another calendar: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/hishiki-k/cal11/ New years cards: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/hishiki-k/nenga/ Miscellaneous prints: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/hishiki-k/other/ The front page print: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/hishiki-k/ He doesn't speak English, so there is no point in giving you his email address for sending comments ... Might be worth mentioning that he is 73 years old, and all these prints were made since he took up woodblock printmaking on his retirement at 60. Enjoy! Dave ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V23 #2184 *****************************