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 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).

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.

Prints and Drawings by Adrian Armstrong

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

EXHIBITION DATES: October 22nd-December 3rd

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.

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.

“Smoke Signals” features Armendariz’s new series of paintings that reboot astrological signs and their meanings, the role of fate and luck play in shaping our destiny. Included in the exhibition are new drawings and woodcuts from the Border Movement series.

Flatbed presents its first annual Community Press membership exhibition titled “Under Pressure.” Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Flatbed Community Press has been building and creating as safely as possible. Opening August 21, “Under Pressure” includes work by: Katherine Brimberry, Belinda Casey, Caragh Givens, Alex Giffen, Nell Gottlieb, Mike Hart, Kyle Hawley, Alfonso Huerta, Matthew Magruder, Judith Long, Gabrielle Miceli, Peter Nickel, Maryellen Quarles, and Emily Weiskopf.

Ben Muñoz inspects his 100” high woodcut print.