Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1955
Date finished: 1999
Edition: of 75

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint
Dimensions: 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 inches (Image) 39 5/8 x 39 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: British, 1963
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"These prints explore the interplay between our physical and emotional selves and our quest to find balance. I wanted to create the feeling of something solid and tangible whilst also suggesting fleeting, emotional complexities and nuances. Transforming these ideas through printmaking reveals a journey in to bold statement, mark making and texture."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint
Dimensions: 6 x 8 1/2 inches (Image/Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Scottish, 1962
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"My main studio process is Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock printing ) which allows me to print the woodblock with watercolour. However on occasion I will combine other elements with the mokuhanga. Here i have combined two elements of mokuhanga which I have chine colled on to a heavier paper. Through the process of pasting these elements together I have over printed with three etching plates. This has merged painterly marks along with a delicate etched line. At the bottom I have also chine colled (pasted) a page from an old japanese lined notebook. This has introduced the strong blue line underpining the print. Throughout the work I have added small nuances with a graphite or coloured pencil. The monoprint is from a small series of works related to observing the sea ."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint
Dimensions: 17 x 17 3/4 inches (Image) 21 x 21 5/8 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, b. 1950
Date finished: 2021
Edition: of 6

Artist's statement:
"The motif in Red Facing Fear #3 is based on my sense of the fragility and precariousness of contemporary life. The structure suggests a sense of power, where one addition or change–such as adding a red line down the middle of the composition–can reinforce or destabilize the picture plane. This resembles how daily routines and a sense of normalcy can be derailed by a slight or sometimes violent event, which in turns creates instability and ambiguity. In creating Red Facing Fear #3 I used a combination of relief and monotype blocks. The relief block provided stability and replication. The monotype block allowed for endless variations, which I created through multiple monotype techniques including layering subtle colors. This process of making monoprints parallels the dynamics of the world and its complicated ever-changing nature."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint
Dimensions: 32 1/4 x 32 1/4 inches (Image) 39 5/8 x 39 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: British, 1963
Date finished: 2016
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"These prints explore the interplay between our physical and emotional selves and our quest to find balance. I wanted to create the feeling of something solid and tangible whilst also suggesting fleeting, emotional complexities and nuances. Transforming these ideas through printmaking reveals a journey in to bold statement, mark making and texture."

Medium: Original color serigraph
Dimensions: 22 5/8 x 18 3/4 inches (Image) 30 x 22 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1930
Date finished: 2007
Edition: of 60

Recommended by Rebecca (Gallery Manager):
"Somebody Stole My Broken Heart is a perfect encapsulation of jazz and live music performance, from the colors to the composition to the texture. You can see, feel, and almost hear the music from the vibrations in blue, which have an exuberance that matches the musicians. The singer's arms are outstretched as she lets everything go and pours it into her performance, eyes closed. Energy radiates from the bright yellow shared by the dress, cymbals and saxophone, the small dashes of green throughout and the rich red background. Ringgold captures jazz in a way that only an artist born in Harlem in 1930 can."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint
Dimensions: 28 x 20 inches (Image) 30 x 21 3/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Canadian, 1954
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"The works are monoprints from a series entitled The Plate and Beyond reflecting my interest in the interaction of lines, shapes, colours and pattern.

My monoprints are made through an intuitive process using collagraph plates, stencils, and masks made from found materials. A multi-layered printing process is used. My process of working allows me to respond to the developing image as each plate is added. Further materials are impressed onto the printed surface, including inked or non-inked materials. Pressing of “ghosts” or “cognates,” may also be incorporated.  This results in the development of prints with complex relationships between shapes, colour and surface texture. From the pressure applied in the printing process and the resulting embossment of the materials used, the images can even reflect the history of collagraph plates and processes."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint
Dimensions: 29 5/8 x 21 7/8 inches (Image) 30 x 21 7/8 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Canadian, 1954
Date finished: 2018
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"This work is a monoprint from a series entitled The Plate and Beyond reflecting my interest in the interaction of lines, shapes, colours and pattern.

My monoprints are made through an intuitive process using collagraph plates, stencils, and masks made from found materials. A multi-layered printing process is used. My process of working allows me to respond to the developing image as each plate is added. Further materials are impressed onto the printed surface, including inked or non-inked materials. Pressing of “ghosts” or “cognates,” may also be incorporated.  This results in the development of prints with complex relationships between shapes, colour and surface texture. From the pressure applied in the printing process and the resulting embossment of the materials used, the images can even reflect the history of collagraph plates and processes."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 20 x 16 inches (Image) 26 x 22 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1971
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Hard-edges, grids, and flawed forms of our fabricated world inform a conversation between the living, synthetic, uncontrollable, and controlled. I enjoy this conversation and participate in it - using memory and impression - to assemble a non-traditional landscape. On a morning walk, I study how people organize their lives and property; I consider how plots of land look from above, how they fit together. Transitions, such as gravel-to-rock, curb-to-road, and public-to-private, can be felt and heard; they dictate one’s mood, movement, and attire. I imagine a map and wander inside it, looking for what is native, imported, predator, or prey."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 20 x 16 inches (Image) 26 x 22 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1971
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Hard-edges, grids, and flawed forms of our fabricated world inform a conversation between the living, synthetic, uncontrollable, and controlled. I enjoy this conversation and participate in it - using memory and impression - to assemble a non-traditional landscape. On a morning walk, I study how people organize their lives and property; I consider how plots of land look from above, how they fit together. Transitions, such as gravel-to-rock, curb-to-road, and public-to-private, can be felt and heard; they dictate one’s mood, movement, and attire. I imagine a map and wander inside it, looking for what is native, imported, predator, or prey."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 16 x 20 inches (Image) 22 x 25 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1971
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Hard-edges, grids, and flawed forms of our fabricated world inform a conversation between the living, synthetic, uncontrollable, and controlled. I enjoy this conversation and participate in it - using memory and impression - to assemble a non-traditional landscape. On a morning walk, I study how people organize their lives and property; I consider how plots of land look from above, how they fit together. Transitions, such as gravel-to-rock, curb-to-road, and public-to-private, can be felt and heard; they dictate one’s mood, movement, and attire. I imagine a map and wander inside it, looking for what is native, imported, predator, or prey."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Drypoint, relief, and collagraph
Dimensions: 22 3/8 x 29 1/2 inches (Image/Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1962
Date finished: 2020
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"My prints grow out of the process of their making. Each print is built as a sequence of choices about color and technique as one step leads to the next. Faith and intuition guide the journey to a stopping point, a place where something unexpected comes into being bearing a richness and clarity that is more than the ingredients."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint wood matrix and drypoint collage
Dimensions: 30 x 22 3/8 inches (Image/Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 19531954
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Timeline 2 is part of a series of monoprints we created exploring untying time. With the disruption of events that marked our calendar we found new ways to measure time. On our daily hikes along the Brule River and Lake Superior in northeast Minnesota we were fascinated by how time has changed the course of the river and reshaped rocks and boulders. The trail ends where the river meets the lake and the lake meets the sky."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches (Image) 30 x 22 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1962
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Both monotypes in this exhibit are inspired by my experience kayaking on Union Bay Wetlands in Seattle. I was trying to capture the feeling of floating in this quiet, luminous world of marsh grasses, blue herons and shifting reflections, not knowing what would come into view next."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (Image) 30 x 22 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1962
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Both monotypes in this exhibit are inspired by my experience kayaking on Union Bay Wetlands in Seattle. I was trying to capture the feeling of floating in this quiet, luminous world of marsh grasses, blue herons and shifting reflections, not knowing what would come into view next."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Watercolor monotype
Dimensions: 19 x 24 inches (Image) 26 1/2 x 31 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1959
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"The two earlier works from 2017 (Plus Minus 3 and 7) were directly related to my very first prints (for myself) in a very long time. As such, I was filled with energy and these drawings really represent that. Using watercolor, I drew directly from the tube of paint onto the surface of the plate, then printed in one or two layers onto Arches 88 paper."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Watercolor monotype
Dimensions: 19 x 24 inches (Image) 26 1/2 x 31 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1959
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"The two earlier works from 2017 (Plus Minus 3 and 7) were directly related to my very first prints (for myself) in a very long time. As such, I was filled with energy and these drawings really represent that. Using watercolor, I drew directly from the tube of paint onto the surface of the plate, then printed in one or two layers onto Arches 88 paper."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Oil and watercolor monoprint with hand-coloring
Dimensions: 25 x 19 1/2 inches (Image) 32 x 26 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1959
Date finished: 2020
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"The later print from 2020 (Peek on the Other Side 3) was a response to the pandemic and my overwhelming need to find order in the chaos of life at the time. I used multiple different types of plates including copper and solar plates, which were all inked in a quiet palette (at least for me!). The arrangement of the composition was dictated by a set image size which I filled with plates a varying sizes. This print has both oil ink and watercolor elements."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 28 1/2 x 20 inches (Image) 31 x 22 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1952
Date finished: 2015
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Before beginning the monoprint Leena, I made a charcoal drawing the same size as I planned to make the print. I worked on these in late 2014 and early 2015. When I was happy with the charcoal “study”, I began the monoprint using soy based Akua intaglio inks, which are quite different from the oil based etching inks I used previously. The biggest difference is the drying time of each; the Akua ink basically doesn’t dry on a non-porous surface, which means there is no pressure to rush to get it done and printed in the same day. Using the Akua ink, which has no toxic driers, I could safely manipulate the image for days or weeks.

I use a number of tools to make my monoprints, including bristle brushes, brayers, soft rags, parts of hair combs, my thumb, squeegees, and just about anything that can make a mark or roll on a bit of ink.

This ability to shift and modify the image, to wipe out large sections and then add back again are the reasons why I choose to use the monoprint medium. In my opinion it is actually more forgiving than a charcoal drawing, allowing for much manipulation.

Leena was a student of mine at Wagner college a number of years ago; she took a few of my studio classes. She also worked as a monitor in the print making studio. What was it about Leena that made me want to draw her? The answer will read like a list of platitudes, but they are all true. Hardworking, bright, reliable. Her face fascinated me; it was the image of youth, though not quite naïve – there was a degree of emotional intelligence I didn’t usually encounter in my students."