Category Archives: Techniques

Lithography

By Hadley | Published: January 8, 2010
In it’s most basic sense, lithography is a technique in which the print is made by using a press to transfer an image created on stone or a metal plate to paper. Lithographs differ from etchings, engravings, serigraphs, and woodcuts in materials and process. As opposed to many other print processes that depend upon incised [...]
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Print Study Rooms in New York

By Hadley | Published: January 7, 2010
The best way to learn about prints and understand the characteristics and visual qualities of the different techniques is through close study of original works. One way to see extremely high quality works in excellent condition is at print study rooms or libraries. Living in New York, I’m incredibly lucky to have some of the [...]
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Amo México!!

By Hadley | Published: January 6, 2010
Totally inspired after a New Year’s holiday in Mexico I couldn’t help but think about the printmaker Rufino Tamayo. Rufino Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Experimenting with Cubism, Impressionism and Fauvism, Tamayo incorporated these popular art movements of the time with his distinctly Mexican iconography. [...]
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A Brief Introduction to Screenprinting

By Hadley | Published: December 11, 2009
Screenprint: stencil process using a mesh stretched over a frame. Ink is forced through openings in the mesh, which can be blocked by a variety of methods. When first encountering a screenprint, the eye of the observer is often deceived. While screenprints appear as a single image, they are in fact a composite of separate images [...]
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Save the Date!

By Hadley | Published: December 1, 2009
Please reserve the date for the Printshop’s annual Benefit gala on the evening of Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at Murphy and Dine Gallery in Chelsea. All proceeds will benefit much needed artists’ residencies and stipends at the Printshop. Live auction, conducted by the immensely talented Guy Bennett, will feature artists [...]
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Steve Maiorano, Screened Images

By Hadley | Published: October 24, 2009
Last Saturday I took a lovely 45 minute train out to Port Washington, NY, to visit Steve Maiorano, owner of Screened Images. A visual arts focus in college led to an interest in printmaking. Steve focused on silkscreening and opened in his business in the 70’s. He has worked such well known Pop artists as Tom Wesselmann [...]
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Enoc Perez

By Hadley | Published: October 11, 2009
What a pleasure to watch Enoc Perez demonstrate his creative process. Enoc creates the series ‘Teatro Popular, Niterói, Brazil’ (2009) by first hand painting broad strokes of color on paper, which is followed by silk screening on top. What draws me to these works, other than the undulating forms and gorgeous colors, but also the fascinating tension [...]
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