Baren Digest Friday, 22 August 2003 Volume 24 : Number 2349 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Lyon Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:41:48 -0500 Subject: [Baren 22602] CCP Norwalk Connecticut Sept 12 I received a nice surprise in yesterday's mail... invitations to the Norwalk, Connecticut Center for Contemporary Printmaking "Ink from Wood: Two Traditions" show (and the opening of the CCP Cottage and Paul Furneaux's residence there). There will be a champagne reception Friday, September 12, 2003 from 7 to 9 PM at 299 West Avenue, Matthews Park, Norwalk CT. The Honorary Chairpersons are Walter Bareiss, Helen Frankenthaler, Wolf Kahn, and Donald Sultan. Tony Kirk is director of the CCP and you can obtain more information by phoning: 203-899-7999 or emailing mailto:contemprints#snet.net Ink from Wood: Two Traditions an exhibition curated by Anthony Kirk, and showing woodcuts by: Gregory Amenoff Georg Baselitz Richard Bosman Chuck Close Ann Desmet Jim Dine David Fertig Helen Frankenthaler Antonio Frasconi Paul Furneaux Bryan Nash Gill Takuji Hamanaka Charles Hewitt Atsushi Inoue Yvonne Jacquette Seiko Kawachi Alex Katz Bodo Korsig Karen Kunc Robert Kushner Sol LeWitt Mike Lyon Robert Mangold Michael Mazur Thomas Nozkowski David Rabinowitch Tom Reilly Alison Saar Ben Shahn Joel Shapiro Yasu Shibata Eve Stockton Donald Sultan Margaret Tsirantonakis April Vollmer Michael Waight Deborah Waimon Neil Welliver The show will be up from September 12 through November 8. Gallery hours are 9 to 5, Tuesday through Saturday. Hope you can see this show -- I can only imagine how thrilled the other artists must be to have their work shown alongside April Vollmer's and mine! :-) I'll be leading a five-day "Special Woodcut Workshop" at the center 10 AM to 4 PM from September 15 through 19 in the new CCP Cottage ($390 plus $20 materials fee). CCP staff published the following description which omits what I imagine will be the predominant feature of the course -- traditional Japanese water-based printmaking technique! "This workshop will introduce participants to reductive woodblock printing using one block and photo transfer methods to achieve a unique style of printing which is unlike the most commonly known look of woodcut. Reduction woodblock printing uses the entire image area and prints the lightest color first. More wood is then cut away, and the next darker color printed. This process is repeated as many times as are necessary to complete the image, but always cutting away more of the block - - thus reducing it. Participants will design, carve and print images using reductive techniques and photo transfers. The instructor will provide an overview of the medium, and describe and demonstrate kento registration, image transfer methods, carving tools and techniques, characteristics of wood and paper, and more." Images of two of my prints accompany the course description: http://www.mlyon.com/images/tiny_aizuri-e_dana.jpg http://www.mlyon.com/images/madonna_plain.jpg - -- Mike Mike Lyon mailto:mikelyon#mlyon.com http://www.mlyon.com ------------------------------ From: Aqua4tis#aol.com Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:36:59 EDT Subject: [Baren 22603] Re: CCP Norwalk Connecticut Sept 12 congrats mike and april you are in there with the big guys now georga ------------------------------ From: "Robert Canaga" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:36:54 -0700 Subject: [Baren 22604] Re: CCP Norwalk Connecticut Sept 12 Why are they letting all those other light weights in... great show, I hope they post it or do a catalogue! RC Your work is up on the self portrait pages, looks wonderful! http://www.robertcanagagallery.com/Gallery_Links/Eugene_Gallery/Self-Port= rait__Project/Self-Portraits_2/self-portraits_2.html >congrats mike and april you are in there with the big guys now >georga ------------------------------ From: FurryPressII#aol.com Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:04:51 EDT Subject: [Baren 22605] letterpress printing taken to the nines I just got back from the WEN summer gathering (there were some bareners there incognito) and saw a number of video's and work in person on how complex letterpress printing and inking can be if done by an expert. There are just as many skills in being an expert printer in both water base and oil base printing. I learn so much about make ready and I had been exposed to a great deal already. As well as lowering blocks to get grays when printing black ink. Thomas B.'s blocks were not level even though they might only be 2" wide It might be correct to say in oil based wood cuts (the key here is that I am talking about oil based printing and not Japanese prints) the cutting may be the most important but in printing wood engravings the printing comes to the front. A perfectly cut wood engraving may look like a piece of junk if it were printed by an average printer and an average wood engraving would shine if printed by an expert printer. Lots of different ways to skin the relief printed cat. john "furrypress" center ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V24 #2349 *****************************