Printers working within Flatbed selected works throughout the collection, many inspired by the technical complexity showcased within the pieces, as they have a personal understanding of the printing processes. The chosen works reflect the regard that our artists have for printmaking as well as respect and admiration for the artists represented. 

• Saturday, August 2, 20254:00 PM
  Saturday, September 13, 20255:00 PM

• Every two years, Flatbed makes a trek to Terni, Italy with a group of artists. The plan is to let Italy’s magic start something new in their work. Flatbed is thrilled to present this group exhibition of a wide variety of media from the 2024 participants.

• Saturday, June 14, 20256:00 PM
  Saturday, July 26, 20255:00 PM

• Join Flatbed in celebrating the Community of artists who make Flatbed their studio their printmaking practice. Reception to be scheduled.

• Saturday, May 10, 20254:00 PM
  Saturday, June 7, 20255:00 PM

• Flatbed is proud to announce its fourth annual student printmaking exhibition, Éditions Variables – New Austin Printmakers. This dynamic showcase celebrates the vibrant and evolving landscape of printmaking in Austin, featuring works by students from Austin Community College, The University of Texas at Austin, St. Edward’s University, and Texas State University.

Flatbed is thrilled to exhibit drawings and prints by Denny McCoy. The drawings are featured in his recently published book of drawings titled “Day to Day". The exhibition will open at Flatbed with a book signing opportunity with McCoy. The opening reception will be from 6 - 8 pm.

Join Flatbed in celebrating the legacy of Jerry Manson, who served as Flatbed’s Master Printer of editioning from 1990 - 2002 and Master Printer Emeritus from 2002 until 2019.

To honor Manson, this exhibition will highlight his lithographs and etchings along with the relief work of Brooke Burnside. Burnside, Flatbed’s 2024 Jerry Manson Residency awardee.

Join us for "Finale, 2024", an exhibition and review of the work created at Flatbed during 2024!

Enrique Figueredo is bringing his stunning installation of woodcuts to Flatbed.

Robinson is known for her use of monumental scale and fragile, lightweight papers to draw attention to the strength and fragility of both the natural and manmade worlds. Her imagery often features the built environment and decaying structures, from iron bridges to concrete warehouses, investigating the impact of the present moment on the appearance of places and materials.

Flatbed is proud to announce its annual Community Studio group exhibition.  Known as Flathead Printmakers, each is a member of the bustling Community Studio where they have access to lithographic, intaglio and letterpress equipment.  Flatbed is excited to see a growth in membership over the past year and is even more excited about the work being created in the Community space.

Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking is excited to announce their third 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.

Flatbed is excited to present an exhibition of new monotypes and an etching by Jeffrey Dell.  The exhibition’s title “Tidal Waive” alludes to both the fluid spacial elements seen in many of these prints and a resistance to find titles for the singular works in the monotype series which are premiering in this exhibition.  Dell uses traditional printmaking media to create works on paper that explore the fluid perception of space. 

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.