Hollis Hammonds "Disappearance: Icons of Excess"

In May of 2024, Flatbed published “Disappearance: Icons of Excess” with Hammonds. The hand-drawn lithograph with chine collé relief etching vignettes combines Hammonds’ themes of nature contrasted with human over-indulgence. Hammonds writes: “

My focus lies in conveying the fragility of nature and the impact of human actions on the environment, drawing inspiration from the mysterious depths of forests and piles of debris

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Unfolding the Rainbow of Motherhood

Kyle Hawley takes on the often hush-hush topic of Motherhood to unfold the tools of that calling imbued with the range of inherent emotive colors. Using mono-printing techniques, Hawley prints directly from cloth utility accessories and garments that she designed and created to assist in mothering.

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The Prairie Suite by Erika Huddleston

The Texas Prairie. Where does it exist? Did the city take it, pave it, and replant it? The very words conjure images of air, space, and unfenced vastness. Erika Huddleston has been drawn to preserved prairies and what she can find there to draw and paint.

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"The Healer," Annalise Gratovich's newest woodcut from Villager's Carrying Things from Home

Flatbed is excited to announce the publication of Annalise Gratovich’s newest woodcut in her series “Villagers Carrying Things from Home.” This woodcut was created in the unique method of adding color by printing hand-dyed chine collé elements into the life-sized woodcut, and is the seventh Villager woodcut in her planned series of eight. Only seven impressions were printed in the edition.

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James Sullivan - Seeing in the Dark

In 2023, Sullivan developed two images at Flatbed to become polymer gravure etchings. First was the image of “Box” 1, a hand-drawn skeletal probing of the space of a simple box. He had drawn this image with a certain hand-carved reed dipped a sepia-toned ink. The second was Popular Mechanics 8 + 3, a diptych intaglio image based on Sullivan's landscape drawings which are on sheets from a Popular Mechanics magazine printed with the raised-dot patterns of Braille. The images though starkly different from each other, share Sullivan’s search for the unseen.

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Flatbed File No. 4 "Poza" by Liz Ward

“Poza” is our featured print of the week. It was created by Liz Ward in 2000 - 2001 as a part of her Increment Suite. Like the other prints included in “Increments Suite”, “Poza” was created using custom-made Kitakata paper. The paper itself is slightly green, and the print was made using a staged aquatint. It depicts a globular amorphous shape made up of gradient aqua-colored rings on a flat background.

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