Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 24 x 18 inches (Image) 30 1/4 x 25 inches (Sheet)
Artist details: American, 1947
Date finished: 2021

Artist's statement:
"My Illumination Series of monotypes explores the effect of color and its illumination.

Inspired by observations of the manner in which light affects color with its passing movement and changes, I am fascinated by the power of color to evoke emotion and to encourage contemplation, allowing the viewer to become the subject of the work.

Elements of both structure and fragility appear in my work - a balancing act which I hope speaks to our own very human condition and characteristics.

I believe that color is material and I use it as such. The edges of rectangular forms become indistinct, making these works appear seamless, as if they are colored air, the color appearing to be lit from within. Color, form, and space articulate the materiality of the oil based printmaking ink, very ​similar to that of oil paint.

I build these works up architecturally, giving them an innate sense of order and an enduring sense of clarity, utilizing a minimum number of elements for a maximum effect.

Color then becomes a place to be; it encourages the viewer’s response to become central  to the content of the work, creating a sense of inevitability which reveals a sense of oneness with each viewer."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 12 x 13 3/4 inches (Image) 23 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Pacific Northwest, 1962
Date finished: 2018
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"My monotype process includes rolling and painting inks onto a plate and creating images, textures and marks in a primarily subtractive method. Depending on the piece, it will be sent through the press once or multiple times. I work from reference images and sketches, altering elements as I make my way through the process. It is a private journey usually involving moments, people or places that figure prominently with me on an emotional level."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches (Image) 15 x 11 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Pacific Northwest, 1962
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"My monotype process includes rolling and painting inks onto a plate and creating images, textures and marks in a primarily subtractive method. Depending on the piece, it will be sent through the press once or multiple times. I work from reference images and sketches, altering elements as I make my way through the process. It is a private journey usually involving moments, people or places that figure prominently with me on an emotional level."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint and mixed media
Dimensions: 17 x 25 3/4 inches (Image/Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1952
Date finished: 2014
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Terra Incognita is part of my Blue Moment series and alludes to the refraction of light off snow and ice crystals, and the light transitioning in winter twilight, a perennial inspiration that examines such immersions and illusions of the color blue.   

This monoprint is made with the “pressure printing” process, in which various cut out cardstock forms are placed on the backside of the paper, as it goes thru the press on an inked-up plexi plate. The pressure is set “just so”, so that a full impression reveals the cut shapes, and other areas are without full pressure leaving lighter, ghost-y areas and halos. The residue impressions on the plexi are also used again, so a generative process enables reversals, layers, ghost prints. I further worked the prints in this Blue Moment series by hand coloring with brush and gouache paint, applied through stencils or directly, and further transferred layers of ink in an evolutionary process."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Watercolor monotype
Dimensions: 14 7/8 x 18 1/4 inches (Image) 21 1/8 x 24 3/8 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1961
Date finished: 2020
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Branches, Humphrey Head and Tree Near Second Beach are from a series exploring the landscape where I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. These images take a subjective view of the landscape – looking up – to suggest a “child’s eye” sense of scale or perspective.

The prints were made by painting with black watercolor on a thin polyester plate, which was then printed on a press. Unlike oil monotypes, the image must be completely dry before being printed. This means that it can be developed over many hours, even days. I use additive and subtractive processes to make the images, putting down washes and marks that are allowed to dry before being lifted and revised by re-wetting the plate."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Watercolor monotype
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches (Image) 22 1/4 x 30 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1961
Date finished: 2020
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Branches, Humphrey Head and Tree Near Second Beach are from a series exploring the landscape where I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. These images take a subjective view of the landscape – looking up – to suggest a “child’s eye” sense of scale or perspective.

The prints were made by painting with black watercolor on a thin polyester plate, which was then printed on a press. Unlike oil monotypes, the image must be completely dry before being printed. This means that it can be developed over many hours, even days. I use additive and subtractive processes to make the images, putting down washes and marks that are allowed to dry before being lifted and revised by re-wetting the plate."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype with collage
Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches (Image/Sheet)
Signature: Signed verso
Artist details: Pacific Northwest-based, Norwegian, b. 1955
Date finished: 2020
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"I work with large scale collage on canvas, as well as with monotypes. I love the endless possibilities that monotypes allows for. In this exhibition I have one piece (Wish You Were Here) with some collage elements from monotypes on this papers. These thin papers were cut up and adhered to the piece. The other piece (Looking for Light) is a monotype made by using cut out stencils that I have printed onto the paper. Both pieces are inspired from shapes and light in nature."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Watercolor monotype
Dimensions: 17 7/8 x 23 7/8 inches (Image) 22 5/8 x 30 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1961
Date finished: 2021
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Backyard at Night is part of the series Night Shadows, inspired by late night walks through my Minneapolis neighborhood. The work addresses feelings of isolation brought on by the pandemic.

The prints were made by painting with black watercolor on a thin polyester plate, which was then printed on a press. Unlike oil monotypes, the image must be completely dry before being printed. This means that it can be developed over many hours, even days. I use additive and subtractive processes to make the images, putting down washes and marks that are allowed to dry before being lifted and revised by re-wetting the plate."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype with collage
Dimensions: 30 x 22 inches (Image/Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Pacific Northwest-based, Norwegian, b. 1955
Date finished: 2018
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"I work with large scale collage on canvas, as well as with monotypes. I love the endless possibilities that monotypes allows for. In this exhibition I have one piece (Wish You Were Here) with some collage elements from monotypes on this papers. These thin papers were cut up and adhered to the piece. The other piece (Looking for Light) is a monotype made by using cut out stencils that I have printed onto the paper. Both pieces are inspired from shapes and light in nature."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint collage
Dimensions: 3 x 3 inches (Each collage) 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (Backing)
Signature: Signed verso
Artist details: American, 1955
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Using simple printmaking techniques and collage, I explore the intersection of botanical art and quilt making, key sources of inspiration and tradition. I work intuitively, using leaves gathered from my surroundings, to create prints which I then cut and piece together. These pieced papers create a visual journal, each print a moment of time and a remembrance of place."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint collage
Dimensions: 6 x 4 inches (Each collage) 29 5/8 x 21 5/8 inches (Backing)
Signature: Signed verso
Artist details: American, 1955
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Using simple printmaking techniques and collage, I explore the intersection of botanical art and quilt making, key sources of inspiration and tradition. I work intuitively, using leaves gathered from my surroundings, to create prints which I then cut and piece together. These pieced papers create a visual journal, each print a moment of time and a remembrance of place."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Moku hanga with collage and stencil
Dimensions: 7 x 2 feet (Image/Sheet)
Artist details: Japanese, 1942
Date finished: 2016

Artist's statement:
"Instead of an edition of identical images, I often create a series of one-of-a-kind images. Each print is a variation created by changing the registration, inking and overlaying during the image-making process, each time a new print is pulled.

My technique allows me to leave a clear record of my process by altering colors and their location and by making different marks and shapes for each new print. The layers of marks become fluid, there is a heightened potential for a new dimension of meaning.

Changing light and reflection from the environment add yet another layer of printed imagery to my hand-printed work."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Watercolor monotype
Dimensions: 32 x 32 inches (image/sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1951
Date finished: 2018

Artist's statement:
"Universe Series:
I am fascinated by technologies that extend human vision, and how the discoveries they make possible advance human understanding.

Through telescopes’ ability to register different kinds of light we probe the mysteries of the cosmos: dark matter, dark energy, black holes, remote galaxies. We even transcend time and space, viewing images of the early universe and the birth and death of stars.

Technique:
I paint in watercolor for its translucent qualities, which translate into depicting colored light.

Working on a press expands my visual range: watercolor monotype merges the interactions of water, color, and gravity. Combined with multiple layering possibilities, this medium has its own unique characteristics. I can create work that appears to arrest the motion of water and make gravity tangible; to make seen what’s unseen."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Watercolor monotype
Dimensions: 22 x 30 inches (image/sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1951
Date finished: 2021

Artist's statement:
"Global Warming Series:
Buster Keaton of silent films represents  man experiencing an ongoing existential crisis.

Technique:
I paint in watercolor for its translucent qualities, which translate into depicting colored light.

Working on a press expands my visual range: watercolor monotype merges the interactions of water, color, and gravity. Combined with multiple layering possibilities, this medium has its own unique characteristics. I can create work that appears to arrest the motion of water and make gravity tangible; to make seen what’s unseen."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Transfer print with chine-collé
Dimensions: 16 x 21 inches (Image) 22 1/2 x 30 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1948
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"The work explores the tension between structure/intentionality and randomness/ spontaneity. I am attracted to everyday objects with repeatable elements/patterns: venetian blinds, textured fabric scraps, grates, building facades, windows, and corrugated card board. These repurposed objects and patterns form the foundation of the images. Layers are added which obscure and enhance the structure.

Structure, routine, and patterns form the underpinnings of modern life, they are always present but rarely noticed. The images start with these ‘unseen’ but ubiquitous patterns. Making visible the unseen highlights their importance and utility just as the patterns and routines of our daily life provide freedom and productivity. The patterned foundation allows the spontaneity and individuality of the subsequent layers. Each new layer obscures and enhances the one underneath.

The interplay of these contradictions stimulates the mind and eye. Meaning occurs when they intersect and fuels the creative process."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Transfer print with chine-collé
Dimensions: 16 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches (Image) 23 7/8 x 20 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1948
Date finished: 2017
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"The work explores the tension between structure/intentionality and randomness/ spontaneity. I am attracted to everyday objects with repeatable elements/patterns: venetian blinds, textured fabric scraps, grates, building facades, windows, and corrugated card board. These repurposed objects and patterns form the foundation of the images. Layers are added which obscure and enhance the structure.

Structure, routine, and patterns form the underpinnings of modern life, they are always present but rarely noticed. The images start with these ‘unseen’ but ubiquitous patterns. Making visible the unseen highlights their importance and utility just as the patterns and routines of our daily life provide freedom and productivity. The patterned foundation allows the spontaneity and individuality of the subsequent layers. Each new layer obscures and enhances the one underneath.

The interplay of these contradictions stimulates the mind and eye. Meaning occurs when they intersect and fuels the creative process."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype and pastel transfer
Dimensions: 39 3/4 x 28 1/4 inches (Image) 41 x 29 1/2 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1991
Date finished: 2012
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"This monotype was made as a 3 color reduction, where each color was rolled on one at a time and the image was wiped away sequentially from each layer. Lastly a hint of charcoal was transferred to the print from the original preparatory drawing."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 11 x 11 inches (Image) 15 x 15 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: American, 1951
Date finished: 2019
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"This print is from my Black Ink series of prints, created using fragments of vintage quilts. Carefully breaking the stitches of old quilts and opening them up, I created prints by laying a section of the tattered and torn inside of the quilt on an inked plate.

I had not anticipated the prints would evoke a sense of ravaged fields, water, and sky: a sense of our land in flux.

Return to the Fields was printed from a fragment of an old “postage stamp” quilt.  It had such tiny stitching it was hard to get to the inside. But once I did, I used a section of the inside of the fragile quilt top to share its story, a story of dividing the land. 

This land — their land, your land, my land, our land — that is and has been a source of such strife and sustenance."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monoprint with stencils
Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (Image) 25 7/8 x 22 1/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Artist's stamp
Artist details: Japanese, 1963
Date finished: 2018
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Since I was introduced by a friend to the idea of using sintra board for printmaking, I have been exploring the range of techniques and possibilities this material provides to expand my portfolio of tools for printmaking. The current work was made using two sintra boards, adding layered adhesive sheets and sandpaper cuts to make a collagraph that is enhanced by adding lines with a sharp tool as drypoint. After running the plate through the press two times, I added inked stencils to complete the composition (running it through the press an additional two times). The more often the plate is run through the press, the more it deteriorates – an effect that causes the plate tone to become uneven. As the plate evolves, I sometimes cut out part of the adhesive sheet shapes and sometimes add more shapes to change the pattern. I like that the plate never stays the same. The evolution creates ambiguity and potential, stretching the material and the techniques needed to tame it, in a way that is endlessly exciting."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 18 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches (Image/Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Guatemalan/German, 1989
Date finished: 2020
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Venturing into the oblivion that is texture I have set normality aside, and forced a new wave of visual possibilities within my portraiture. Although distorted and deformed these figures represent an otherworldly spectacle of opulent decadence, forcing a simultaneous state of abstraction and a cohesion of the collective formations."

Series: Monoprint/Monotype Invitational 2022
Medium: Monotype
Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (Image) 22 1/2 x 17 3/4 inches (Sheet)
Signature: Signed
Artist details: Guatemalan/German, 1989
Date finished: 2020
Edition: 1/1

Artist's statement:
"Venturing into the oblivion that is texture I have set normality aside, and forced a new wave of visual possibilities within my portraiture. Although distorted and deformed these figures represent an otherworldly spectacle of opulent decadence, forcing a simultaneous state of abstraction and a cohesion of the collective formations."