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).

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 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.

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.”

“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.

Flatbed proudly presents a group exhibition by the participants of the 2019 Italian Il Sole Residency at La Romita, Umbria. Artists included in the exhibition are Jo Harvey Allen, Katherine Brimberry, Belinda Casey, Monica Cimino, Suzi Davidoff, Orna Feinstein, Mary Fischer, Elaine Johnson, Charmaine Locke, Erica Stephenson, Sam Schwartz, and Susan Schwartz.

Ben Muñoz inspects his 100” high woodcut print.

Flatbed is pleased to be able to present the woodcuts of Ben Muñoz. The exhibition titled, Over My Head, will be held at the Flatbed Center For Contemporary Printmaking from June 26 to July 29.

FLATBED REDUX. features twelve artists and Flatbed’s rich history of working with and representing stylistically diverse artists to create fine art prints.