Flat File 12: KEN HALE on September 13

Ken Hale is a renowned American printmaker, painter, and educator, celebrated for his innovative contributions to lithography and his long tenure at the University of Texas at Austin. Hale’s prints often combine bold graphic elements with layered textures and collage, exploring themes of popular culture, language, and abstraction.

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Sherry Owens - "Restless as the Sea"

Sherry Owens develops her visual language through a deep exploration of the relationship between humanity and nature. Restless as the Sea draws inspiration from cut-back grass Owens observed on the campus of Sam Houston State University

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Alfonso Huertas "The Labyrinth of Time"

Alfonso Huerta’s large-scale multipanel linocut, The Labyrinth of Time, is an intricate meditation on memory, ritual, and the interwoven rhythms of existence. The work unfolds as a vast tapestry of repeating patterns, symbols, and figures that draw the viewer into a visual maze—one that feels both ancient and contemporary.

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Flat File #27 Robert Dale Anderson

BOB ANDERSON - FLAT FILE 27 At Flatbed Press, we house over 100 drawers—our “flat files”—filled with original prints by a wide range of artists. These prints represent an incredible variety of styles, techniques, and voices in contemporary printmaking.

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Jenny Robinson "Aviary"

Jenny Robinson’s spectacular color lithograph was released November 7. The ithograph measures 30 x 40 1/2 inches and is printed on both sides of translucent Kitakata paper. It is a striking “tour de force” of Robinson’s imaginative constructed spaces. Link to see more about this lithograph printed in a small edition of 10.

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Taking Flight! Billy Hassell, "Rookery, High Island" and "Rookery, High Island II"

Flatbed is thrilled the announce the publication of “Rookery, High Island” and “Rookery, High Island II” by Billy Hassell! Billy’s two new lithographs were signed on September 3 at Flatbed. Billy started the collaboration to create these prints in February with Master Printer, Alyssa Ebinger. The intention was to create one full-color lithograph, but during his time at Flatbed developing the image, he also approved a second version. This monochromatic version, “Rookery, High Island II” utilizes three plates from the color version

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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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