Field Notes on Augury: ISTI MIRANT STELLA:  Flatbed is pleased to present a selection of works by Serena Perrone spanning printmaking, ceramics, glass, photography, and text. Often taking cues from literature and art history, her varied bodies of work are unified by the use of color and recurring symbols, relying heavily on process, workmanship, and decoration. The works in this exhibition record instances of both wonder and trepidation when confronting the landscape and natural phenomena. Isti Mirant Stella (“they marvel at the star”) is a nod to the auspicious appearance of Halley’s Comet as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry of 1066, as Perrone proposes the possibility of reading the past and gleaning clues to the future through close attention to the terrestrial and celestial realms.

Flatbed is excited to present an exhibition of woodcuts and etchings by Annalise Gratovich during Austin’s celebrated Print Month. Gratovich is an innovative printmaker was awarded the title of Creative Ambassador of Visual Arts in 2019 by the City of Austin and exhibits extensively nationally and internationally, most recently in Buggenhagen, Germany, New York, NY

Flatbed is celebrating the holidays with an exhibition that highlights new work from collaborations at Flatbed Press during 2023. This group exhibition includes Erika Huddleson (Dallas), Peter Leighton (Burnet), Laura Berman (Kansas City, MO), Adrian Armstrong (New Haven, CT), Serena Perrone (Atlanta, GA), David Everett (Austin), Darden Smith (Austin), James Sullivan (Dallas0, and Jeffrey Dell (San Marcos). Linda Ridgway (Dallas) , Charlotte Seifert (Houston) and Kyle Hawley (Austin).

Coming soon! Kyle Hawley takes on the often hush-hush topic of Motherhood to unfold the tools of that calling inbued with the range of inherent emotive colors.

Exhibition Dates:  October 28 - December 2, 2023
A public reception is planned for October 29 from 2 until 4 pm. Family activities are planned with a kid-friendly hands-on project for everyone.

Flatbed is excited to announce a new exhibition of polymer photogravures curated by Matthew Magruder.  The Inky Photographer: Polymer Photogravure workshop, taught by Matthew Magruder, has been a Flatbed mainstay for the last several years.
Exhibition Dates:  September 2 - October 14, 2023

Public Reception:  Saturday, September 2, 2023 4 pm - 7 pm

Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking is excited to announce their second annual exhibition showcasing Austin’s new and upcoming printmakers. This exhibition features work from students who are receiving their BFA, BA, BS, or MFA with a major or minor concentration in printmaking from an Austin area college or university. The exhibition represents a wide variety of new artists that are investigating and challenging what printmaking can be.

A group exhibition of work inspired by or created at La Romita, by artists attending Flatbed’s summer residency workshop of 2022. The residency/workshop is held every two years at La Romita School of Art in Terni, Umbria, Italy.

Flatbed presents the work by Flatbed members, staff, and our 2023 Artist in Residence, Enrique Figueredo. The Community Press serves as an incubator for printmaking arts. Members, instructors, and staff are affectionately known as Flatbed Flatheads.

The address was 912 West 3rd Street.  It was a 19th century 2000 square foot railroad warehouse full of furniture and oddities stored by an entrepreneur who combed auctions. When Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith went looking for a place to park Brimberry’s press and operate their newly formed Flatbed Press in September of 1989, an acquaintance sent them to the third street warehouse to check out some space which was available to rent starting  in October.  The warehouse faced the railroad tracks just east of the bridge spanning Lamar.  Its clear-story skylights illuminated the back 1200 square feet and the price was right for a very tight budget. Already located next to 912 W. 3rd, was the studio of sculptor John Christiansen. Best of all, the view from the front loading dock overlooked the railroad and the lake below.  It was perfect.  It was positively third street. 

Kim Kei (b.1981, Corpus Christi, TX) is a multi-disciplinary Los Angeles-based artist whose

practice spans sculpture, printmaking, painting, and photography to evoke sensations of

vulnerability, invasiveness and tenderness towards the body. Kei received her BFA from the San

Francisco Art Institute in 2003. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has had solo

shows at Local Language (Oakland, CA), the Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA), Brandstater

Gallery (Riverside, CA), Alter Space (San Francisco), and Bustamante Gill (Los Angeles). Kei

has attended residencies at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Flatbed Press, Instinc, Singapore,

Mass MoCa, Irvine Fine Arts Center, and La Sierra University and her work has been featured in

Juxtapoz, Artsy OC Weekly, and Temporary Art Review.

Her recent large-scale monotypes, created at Flatbed while in residency during the pandemic, will be on exhibition.

Flatbed is very proud to announce their annual group exhibition of works published by Flatbed Press during its current year. Titled 31 BY 12, this year’s exhibition includes work by twelve artists: Adrian Armstrong, Miguel A. Aragon, Connie Arismendi, Jennifer Anderson, Pepe Coronado, Laura Berman, David Everett, Mike Hart, Peter Nickel, Heather Parrish, Maricela Sanchez, and James Sullivan.

Prints and Drawings by Adrian Armstrong

OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 22nd from 6pm-8pm

EXHIBITION DATES: October 22nd-December 3rd

Flatbed is proud to announce “Everyone” an exhibition of new monoprints and etchings by Connie Arismendi. Arismendi who has been in residence at Flatbed in 20 21 and 2022, created a series of large 42” x 55” monoprints and a suite of three chine collé varied edition etchings.

Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking is excited to announce their first annual exhibition that showcases Austin’s new and upcoming printmakers. This exhibition features work from students who are receiving their BFA, BA, BS, or MFA with a major or minor concentration in printmaking from an Austin area college or university. The exhibition represents a wide variety of new artists that are investigating and challenging what printmaking can be.

Image:

Joseph Maxfield

“New Age”

Screenprint

2022

11”x14”

Bearing the name of Austin’s first city planner, this cretaceous limestone waterway is inscribed with our legacies of racialized division and displacement. As an Austin native with family traces to the city’s founding, artist Heather Parrish explores these threads through layers of geology and urban development.

Apertura

Monoprints by Pepe Coronado

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7th 6pm-8pm

EXHIBITION: April 23rd-May 28th

Flatbed is excited to announce Apertura , a series of monoprints created by Pepe Coronado in collaboration with us in December 2021.

Flatbed is pleased to present “The Love and Money Show,” an exhibition of monoprints created at Flatbed during Covid by Texas-based artist Maricela Sanchez. Sanchez uses her creativity and craftsmanship to break down barriers between art and daily life. Over the past 35 years, Sanchez has worked as a high-end industrial designer and practices as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and mixed media artist.

Flatbed is pleased to present an exhibition by the artist Laura Crehuet Berman. Her exhibition, Temporalities, brings together her recent monotypes and collages. Laura Crehuet Berman creates images that layer time, space, form and color together. The natural world inspires her, and there is a focus on play, improvisation, and relational dynamics in her work.

To see work in the exhibition link here: TEMPORALITIES

Exhibibition dates: October 16 until November 30.

Reception for the artist on November 13, 2021
6 - 8 PM
Conversation with the artist at 6:30 PM
Schedule a time slot for attending the reception:
https://flatbed.as.me/LETSCHER

Byron Brauchli, long known for his landscape images which often juxtapose the natural with mankind’s “influence” will exhibit his most recent work featuring the Rio Grande River from its source to its end. Brauchli’s new images include many created with both copper and polymer photogravure processes. Photogravure, a printmaking media, is a perfect medium for Brauchli’s detailed and panoramic images.

An exhibition of works from Flatbed’s archives where one will find old friends and lots of surprises. Showing Dan Rizzie’s untitled chine collé monotype, 32 x 24 inches.

We invite you to come to this exhibition with open mind and eyes to see and experience abstraction’s transcendent language.

Showing: Larry Scholder, “After”, Spit-bite aquatint etching, Image size 10 x 8 inches.

Flatbed is excited to share our first 2021 exhibition Nothing About Us Without Us with the community. This is an exhibition of works by Matthew Forrest who worked in collaboration with artists from Imagine Art during 2020. The timing of the exhibit is for PrintAustin 2021, and it celebrates the inclusive nature of printmaking and the power of collaboration. The title of the exhibition was taken from a centuries-old slogan asserting that no policy should be created without the full and direct participation of those it affects. It was adopted by the disability rights movement in the 1990s as a call to action around the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Nearing the end of 2020, we take a look at the wonderful prints created during and in spite of one of our world’s most difficult years

Inspired by her close connection to nature, and by what she calls “the spirit of investigation and observation of the natural world,” Suzi Davidoff creates mixed-media drawings and paintings, prints and installations that consider intricate patterns in nature and the overlaying systems used to observe, map and define organic landscapes.

Her recent monotypes, created at Flatbed Press, involve the vanishing species of birds that have historically inhabited the Rio Grande basin. Select monotypes from her sessions at Flatbed along with recent drawings will be on exhibition with “Vanishing Avians.”

Flatbed is delighted to invite you to join us and 63 other international exhibitors on October 14th at 12 Noon EST for the online edition of the E/AB Fair.