New Etching by Sandra Fernandez   Her Majesty (su majestad) Her Majesty (su majestad), a new soft ground, chine collé etching, was released as Flatbed's newest publication by Sandra Fernandez. Fernandez, who teaches printmaking at the University of Texas, is also well known for her works that involve the use of stitching, textiles, and assembled sculptural pieces. Sandra's new work, Her Majesty (su majestad), was created using stitching elements pressed into the soft ground. A collaged skirt using paper from a published collection of the State Trials and proceedings upon High Treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the reign of King Richard II to the end of the reign of King George I which was printed in London in 1730. The edition of 20 prints was signed October 25 and is now available through Flatbed or the Gallery at Shoal Creek.     Deep Time Suite Flatbed Press is pleased to announce two new etchings by Liz Ward: Ice Core and Glacial Ghost with Fossil Flowers. These are a part of the on-going body of work titled “Deep Time,” in which Ward references images of ice cores and other ice forms creating works that respond to the sublime yet fragile beauty of glaciers. Both etchings were created simultaneously with printmaking techniques that mirrored the gradual growth, death, fossilization, incremental layering and shrinking that is evident in glacial formation and deformation of icebergs and glaciers. Each of the Deep Time etchings are in editions of 30 and measure 34” x 14” on 40” x 18” Japanese Shiramine paper. The retail price for each print is $1,800 and the pair is available at $3,000.   Liz Ward prints at Flatbed Press     5/10/12 - 5/25/12    Lankydoo With great pleasure, Flatbed Press announces Randy Twaddle’s first etching at Flatbed Press, Lankydoo. This color etching was created in an edition of 24, on Rives BFK and measures 48 ½” x 36”. Collectors who know Randy’s work recognize in this etching one of his signature transformer images created using aquatint techniques. Using two 30” x 40” copper plates, Randy worked using experimental spit-bite aquatint washes and deeply etched aquatints to create an artwork which is a stunning marriage of the abstract expressionist wash and the transformer lines. Randy describes the creative source, “I ‘m constantly awed by their (power lines and transformers) unintentional lyricism. They create a strong musical association for me, and I often think of them as alternative scores scratched out in the air by anonymous composers.” Until June 15th, Lankydoo is available at the introduction publication price of $2,200. After June 15, the prints will be $2,500.     Peat Duggins: New Lithograph Austin artist and arts organizer Peat Duggins has recently completed a limited edition of twenty-five, color lithographs at Flatbed Press in association with Art Palace Gallery. The artist collaborated with master printer Veronica Ceci to create the original print, which visually references Duggins' earlier work in animation. The untitled image that he drew on three litho plates is the lower trunk of a tree with blue butterflies circling it. The effect is light hearted and Disney-esque but has deeper meanings in the context of a planet that is ecologically imperiled. Duggins has shown us nature the way it was without humankind and thankfully the way it is still in increasingly rare pockets of wildness. The print shows off the artist's mastery of line and the disarming charm of his draftsmanship. Duggins, who works in several different styles, is collected by the Blanton Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art and has been very active in the new art scene that has developed around young artists. He has been included in the Austin Museum of Arts prestigious New Art in Austin show and in the 2004 and 2007 Texas Biennials, and he is co-founder/director with Sterling Allen of Austin's acclaimed Okay Mountain and founder/director of the Fresh-Up Club, an early artist's consortium in Austin. He has been awarded numerous awards and residencies including the McDowell Colony and the Bemis Foundation. Currently--as the recipient of the 2008 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art--he is launched on a cross-country bicycle tour to examine the American landscape through one drawing per day and a documentary film--"A Survey of Open Space"--directed by Duggins. Daily updates can be found on the Fusebox web site. Duggins' new lithograph is available at Flatbed and at Art Palace.     Flatbed Press Presents: Heartland   A Suite of Eleven Gravures by James Surls James Surls’s “Heartland” is one of the most ambitious publications in Flatbed’s twenty-year history and is one of the press’s masterworks. It is a true deluxe artist’s book in the tradition of the great, European livres deluxe produced in Paris in the early twentieth century as well as subsequent ones published by Universal Limited Art Editions in New York City. During an approximately three-year period, Surls collaborated with Flatbed’s master printers Katherine Brimberry and Tracy Mayrello to develop and edition the suite. “Heartland” consists of eleven gravures on Thai chine collé and Twinrocker papers and four letterpress sheets: a tittle sheet, a poem by the artist, an essay by artist and wife of the artist Charmaine Locke, and a colophon. It is an elegant combination of visual art and literature. “Heartland” is a limited edition of twenty-one gravures, each signed and numbered by the artist. The lowest numbers are reserved for the full sets of all eleven gravures but a limited number of the higher numbers in each edition are available as individual impressions. More work by James Surls   Heartland Suite PDF