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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreFlatbed 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.
Read MoreCardinal, David Everett’s newest woodcut, is a familiar bird to us in Central Texas and its range is broad across the United States. Its color catches our eye, and its loud call arrests our attention. To some indigenous tribes the cardinal, which mates for life, is considered a “matchmaker.”
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIt was 1973 in Terlingua, Texas and photographer Peter Leighton captured a moment of Willie Nelson’s performance during a tumultuous night set. He discovered it years later, restored the film negative, and is working with Flatbed to create a very limited polymer photogravure edition.
Read MoreFlatbed is excited to announce a new etching by Adrian Armstrong. Titled “NY 001”, Armstrong continues to explore relationships through portraiture. This etching was created in an edition of 14.
Read MoreIt was 1973 in Terlingua, Texas and photographer Peter Leighton captured a moment of Willie Nelson’s performance during a tumultuous night set. He discovered it years later, restored the film negative, and is working with Flatbed to create a very limited polymer photogravure edition.
Read MoreIt is too soon to lose Frank X. Tolbert 2. A great artist and friend to Flatbed, Frank brought his magical way of interpreting the world into the printmaking sphere.
Read MoreIt was 1973 in Terlingua, Texas and photographer Peter Leighton captured a moment of Willie Nelson’s performance during a tumultuous night set. He discovered it years later, restored the film negative, and is working with Flatbed to create a very limited polymer photogravure edition.
Read MoreJoan Winter (American, born 1947) is a renowned sculptor and printmaker whose work is inspired by Japanese architecture.
Read MoreAnn Conner (born 1948, Wilmington) is a nationally acclaimed artist and professor, known for her colorful woodblock prints. Her work is included in a number of major museum and corporate print collections in the U.S. and internationally.
Read More“Angel in Passage Among Leaves and Twigs and Falling Sky Pieces” by Kelly Fearing is our featured Flatbed File of the week.
Read MoreSpencer Fidler (born 1944, American) is a master printer and teacher, whose career has focused specifically on the media of printmaking and drawing. Often challenging the traditional technical and aesthetic boundaries of printmaking,
Read MoreFlatbed Press is proud to announce the publication of three new woodcuts by David Everett. The newest to join his lexicon of southwestern creatures are Caracara, Roadrunner, and Kingfisher. These recent choices of Everett’s are all birds found in Texas. Roadrunner and Caracara are often seen in arid areas but the Kingfisher thrives near lakes, rivers, and other aquatic areas.
Read MoreJames Surls (born 1943, Texas) is a world-renowned modernist known for his striking sculptures, drawings, and prints.
Read More“Victory: The Celebration” is a soft-ground etching and drypoint that would be the last printmaking project before Levers’ death in 1992.
Read More“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.
Read MoreMelissa Miller (bo rn 1951, Houston) is a nationally acclaimed artist known for creating expressive and often mystical depictions of animals and nature.
Read MoreLiliana Porter (born 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early proponent of Conceptual art. She co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop in 1964, where she and her colleagues challenged the museum and gallery system…
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