Past Exhibitions
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.