Born in 1983 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ephrem Solomon observes his environment and presents socio - political works
using woodcut and mixed media.
Menezes writes that «it is rare to find an emerging artist who
uses woodcut as his main artistic language, or attempts to explore new possibilities of artistic expression within woodcarving.
Judd's work with simple lines began in the 1950s, when he started, with great skill and patience, to create minimal designs
using woodcuts.
It was at the Art Student's League that he began to
use woodcuts to explore working within a space to create design, rather than imposing design on a particular space.
She later switched to
using woodcuts, and then to eraser and charcoal, and added printmaking to her repertory.
Not exact matches
I
use both natural and abstract elements as my departure point to create a collection of items that combines my interests in bold, graphic
woodcut / relief art, the craft of sewing, and, in particular, nature, giving a nod to mid-Twentieth Century design too.
Indian artisan Aparupa Ghosh applies the designs by hand
using traditional
woodcut printing techniques.
Indian artisan Aparupa Ghosh applies the design by hand
using traditional
woodcut printing techniques.
He did
woodcuts and the font we
used is very similar to ones he made for Cecil Day - Lewis» books.
It's played
using a custom controller consisting of actual vintage 19th - century telegraph hardware, and features on - screen visuals made entirely of found 19th - century
woodcut illustrations.
The inspiration to
use the typographic — a ready - made form — may have come from Nicholas Krushenick's graphic abstractions inspired by Matisse's cut - outs, Japanese
woodcuts and comics; Jasper Johns» «alphabets» and «numerals,» which were shown in his groundbreaking debut solo show at Leo Castelli in 1958; and Willem de Kooning's black - and - white paintings «Orestes» and «Zurich» (both 1947).
A major new 3 - D animated film entitled Time Spy, produced in late 2016, will be presented alongside a selection of the
woodcuts used to create the film.
«People were really into Rockin» Rollin» Prints» — an annual day - long event in which participants
use a two - ton steamroller to print large
woodcuts — «and PrintHouston, but we were self - funding that,» Rhodes Fields says.
Frankenthaler has worked with Pace Prints to create four Ukiyo - e plus
woodcuts, including «Geisha» (2003), a twenty - three color Ukiyo - e
woodcut printed from 15 woodblocks on Torinoko paper and mounted onto Fabriano Classico, as well as «Book of Clouds,» a large - scale print
using a combination of aquatint,
woodcut and pochoir techniques.
Four additional prints are also included in the exhibition; Geisha (2003), Snow Pines (2004), Japanese Maple (2005), and Weeping Crabapple (2009), which were all printed
using only the ukiyo - e
woodcut technique.
From his earliest days as an artist, Rauschenberg avidly explored and invented myriad ways of marking paper and canvas,
using traditional tools such as paintbrushes, pencils, and
woodcut blocks as well as highly unorthodox methods.
Although Baselitz has made prints since the mid-1960s, he initially
used the etching and
woodcut media primarily to reproduce images from his paintings.
In his first «Eagle» portfolio of 1966, he began to
use the print to develop his style, employing a variety of block printing techniques, including
woodcut and wood engraving.
Once the celluloid solidified, Margo could alter the surface with standard etching and
woodcut tools or
use acetone to break down areas of the hardened celluloid.
«My work
uses different types of mark making in
woodcutting to create altered landscapes where figures exist in a contemplative space.
Over the course of four decades, Donald Judd created hundreds of prints
using aquatint, etching, and screenprint techniques though the
woodcut was his primary print medium.
Judd's preferred medium was
woodcut, which he
used right from the beginning; all the prints in this exhibition are
woodcut, except a pair of lithographs and a set of screen prints.
It
uses the effects of a wash drawing with charcoal in
woodcut form to evoke the gray drooping branches and vibrant pink tones of the flowers.
Los Angeles, CA — Gouge: The Modern
Woodcut 1870 to Now examines the woodcut in terms of its diverse forms and uses in the mode
Woodcut 1870 to Now examines the
woodcut in terms of its diverse forms and uses in the mode
woodcut in terms of its diverse forms and
uses in the modern era.
Judd also explored screenprint techniques, sometimes
using different techniques to generate the same shape, such as in the case of the parallelogram, which he
used in his sculpture as well as in
woodcuts, etchings, and aquatints.
Josef Albers, a founding member of the Bauhaus, pioneered print making in the last century, making
use of numerous media, including etching, engraving,
woodcut, lithography and screen - printing.
Wood engravings differ from
woodcuts in that they are created
using the endgrain of the wood — a cross-section of a tree trunk or branch — rather than a plank.
First established in 1964 in Barcelona, Polígrafa's renowned workshop was opened in the 1970s, enabling artists to
use traditional printing techniques including
woodcut, etching, and lithography to realize their ideas and give them the space to experiment and innovate.
Mr. Sims, however, emphasizes the artist's process here by including the working photos and some of the plates
used in the various stages involved in creating the artist's silkscreen and
woodcut prints.
Gert and Uwe Tobias are Romanian artists known for their
woodcut prints, relief sculptures, drawings
using typewriters, watercolors and ceramics.
To print a
woodcut, the artist covers the surface of the woodblock with ink
using a brayer, a tool similar to a rolling pin that evenly spreads the ink.
Woodcut is the oldest printmaking process and it continues to be relevant today — artists such as Robert Mangold, Frank Stella and Helen Frankenthaler have all
used it.
Here the grid is much in evidence and the print portfolio much in
use, whether in Jennifer Bartlett's witty
woodcut triptych, Untitled (Graceland Woodcut State II, 1979 — 80), Fred Sandback's Portfolio with 8 Linocuts (1979), or the majestic Untitled Ivory Black woodcut variations by Donal
woodcut triptych, Untitled (Graceland
Woodcut State II, 1979 — 80), Fred Sandback's Portfolio with 8 Linocuts (1979), or the majestic Untitled Ivory Black woodcut variations by Donal
Woodcut State II, 1979 — 80), Fred Sandback's Portfolio with 8 Linocuts (1979), or the majestic Untitled Ivory Black
woodcut variations by Donal
woodcut variations by Donald Judd.
The color of each painting derives from the nudes by Impressionist artist Auguste Renoir, and revisits a technique Levine first employed in 1989 with her Meltdown series of
woodcut prints, where an averaging algorithm was
used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists» iconic paintings.
In her
woodcuts and monoprints, Dominique Ellis
uses abstract patterns, textures, colloquial speech, and vibrant colors to reimagine abandoned spaces in the urban landscape of Philadelphia.
We
use woodcarving tools to create one - color and multiple - color relief prints as well as a color reduction
woodcut using the same matrix but multiple impressions, employing transferring techniques as well as design and mark - making methods in wood or linoleum.
These lushly colored sheets were
used for the
woodcut editions.»
Tyler describes: «For the Genji and Madame Butterfly
woodcuts, she made wonderful painted wood panels that were
used as the guide for making the color
woodcuts on colored handmade papers (made by John Hutcheson and Tom Strianese).
Büttner deals with themes such as the attribution of value, poverty and shame,
using various media including
woodcuts, sculptures, textile works and video installations.
Mixed media pieces that
used fiberglass, aluminum,
woodcuts, stainless steel, all with lush, vibrant colors, inspired and energized me.
While their traditional
use of folk art —
woodcuts, embroidery and lace — evokes cultural nostalgia, their contemporary aesthetic refers and renews Geometric Abstraction.
February 26 — April 2, 2016: The Last Glacier In his first exhibition at Kai Lin Art, printmaker Todd Anderson
uses reductive
woodcut techniques to make original prints inspired by the remaining glaciers in Glacier National Park.
Source imagery can come from anywhere, although I'm still hooked on Dürer's Apocalypse
woodcuts for the way he
uses line so inventively to describe dragons and demons, patches of grass and cloudbursts.
Büttner, to the extent that she could be said to explore identity at all, has done so through her work with Carmelite nuns and displays of native plant life, although the judges singled out her
use of anachronistic techniques such as
woodcutting as amongst the reasons for her nomination.
Josef Albers, a founding member of the Bauhaus, was one of the most innovative printmakers of the twentieth century, making
use of numerous print media, including etching, engraving,
woodcut, lithography and screenprinting, from 1916 until his death in Connecticut in 1976.
«Printworks 2002,» 36 prints made by more than two dozens artists
using techniques including silkscreen, monoprint,
woodcut, lithograph, etching and wood engraving.
Flack
uses as her source not the Rubens painting, but its
woodcut, thereby drawing visual parallels between heavy outlining and graphic style of both classical printmaking and modern comic book illustrations.
Noted for his forceful expressionism - exemplified by a bold
use of colour in his landscape painting as well as his portrait art - his most significant contribution is probably his
woodcuts, which are among the most powerful examples of Expressionist printmaking.
The beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue explores the history of the chiaroscuro
woodcut technique and how its
use spread across different parts of Europe in the 16th century.
Making
use of shifting viewpoints between Earth and the stars, Hammick's
woodcuts reflect the artist's concern with the fragility of the environment and notions of home and identity.