James Surls’s “Heartland” is one of the
most ambitious publications in Flatbed’s
twenty-year history and is one of the
press’s masterworks. It is a true deluxe
artist’s book in the tradition of the great,
European livres deluxe produced in Paris
in the early twentieth century as well as
subsequent ones published by Universal
Limited Art Editions in New York City.
During an approximately three-year period,
Surls collaborated with Flatbed’s
master printers Katherine Brimberry
and Tracy Mayrello to develop and edition
the suite.
“Heartland” consists of eleven gravures
on Thai chine collé and Twinrocker papers
and four letterpress sheets: a tittle
sheet, a poem by the artist, an essay by
artist and wife of the artist Charmaine
Locke, and a colophon. It is an elegant combination of visual art and literature. “Heartland” is a limited edition of twenty-one gravures, each signed and numbered by the artist. The lowest numbers are reserved for the full sets of all eleven gravures but a limited number of the higher numbers in each edition are available as individual impressions.
Suite of Color Woodcuts
Dan Rizzie, working in collaboration with Master Printer Pat Masterson, designed and created these large intricate woodcuts published as a suite of editions: Blackberry Thieves I, Blackberry Thieves II, and Blackberry Thieves III. Each woodcut is a layering of six color blocks printed onto onto Japanese Okawara paper and adhered to Rives BFK in editions of 15. Prices start at $2,900 each but for the current price or questions, please contact Mark Smith or Cynthia Holmes. Email contact info: mark@flatbedpress.com or cynthia@flatbedpress.com
Peat Duggins: New Lithograph
Austin artist and arts organizer Peat Duggins has recently completed a limited edition of twenty-five, color lithographs at Flatbed Press in association with Art Palace Gallery. The artist collaborated with master printer Veronica Ceci to create the original print, which visually references Duggins' earlier work in animation.
The untitled image that he drew on three litho plates is the lower trunk of a tree with blue butterflies circling it. The effect is light hearted and Disney-esque but has deeper meanings in the context of a planet that is ecologically imperiled. Duggins has shown us nature the way it was without humankind and thankfully the way it is still in increasingly rare pockets of wildness. The print shows off the artist's mastery of line and the disarming charm of his draftsmanship.
Duggins, who works in several different styles, is collected by the Blanton Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art and has been very active in the new art scene that has developed around young artists. He has been included in the Austin Museum of Arts prestigious New Art in Austin show and in the 2004 and 2007 Texas Biennials, and he is co-founder/director with Sterling Allen of Austin's acclaimed Okay Mountain and founder/director of the Fresh-Up Club, an early artist's consortium in Austin. He has been awarded numerous awards and residencies including the McDowell Colony and the Bemis Foundation. Currently--as the recipient of the 2008 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art--he is launched on a cross-country bicycle tour to examine the American landscape through one drawing per day and a documentary film--"A Survey of Open Space"--directed by Duggins. Daily updates can be found on the Fusebox web site.
Duggins' new lithograph is available at Flatbed and at Art Palace.
Special Offer on Elvis Artifact Collection
Jeff Scott of Dallas has worked with Flatbed for several years on many editions of his gravures. The unique Elvis series of Jeff's detailed below was all created by him in our studios, printed in collaboration with our master printers, and signed and numbered by the artist. A Flatbed documentation sheet (certificate of authentication) is supplied with each impression. Jeff is offering them at these special prices through Flatbed.
If you would like to see larger images or more of Jeff's editions, please visit his artist page on this website.
John Alexander Editions
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The Museum of Fine Arts Houston is currently exhibiting John Alexander: A Retrospective which covers a span of thirty years of this Texas native´s wide-ranging career, featuring 61 oil paintings and 36 works spanning the late-1970s to the present. Alexander, a native of Beaumont, Texas and for some time a resident of the Hamptons on Long Island, is an artist with a naturalist's eye. His prints and paintings reveal both close observation and very personal engagement with his subjects , most often flora and fauna.
From 2000-2003, John worked with Flatbed to create five color lithographs. These prints limited to editions of 35 each are among some of his most beautiful and biting natural images. These lithographs are being exhibited at Flatbed Press and are available to collectors.
Lilies
Red Roses
Raven on a Flag
St. Lawrence (Walk) by Greg Murr
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Flatbed is proud to announce a new suite of color etchings by Greg Murr. Murr, who lives in New York and Berlin, has been one of the key artists working at Flatbed Press since 2000. His three new editions feature conceptual interpretations of earth forms: "St. Lawrence Studies", "Mississippi Oxbows", and "Barrier Islands". The artist transforms bodies of water--and sometimes the contours of related land masses--into elegant and delicately nuanced abstractions. All prints are individually hand-colored and drawn upon following the editioning process, making every impression unique. At a time when our planet is so threatened ecologically, Murr's lyric exploration is especially moving. Each edition is limited to eleven, 15 x 14 in. impressions which begin at $700.
Pictured above:
St. Lawrence (Walk)
Other editions seen below.
In his two new editions of etchings at Flatbed, Laurence Scholder has added a new element of color! The artist chose a rich palette of blues for his Before and After, in which he continues his exploration of clusters, patterns, and Layers of modulated dot forms.
During his collaboration with master printer Katherine Brimberry, Scholder chose to compress the Before cluster into a smaller plate, composing a tight grouping of small and large circular forms, with a shadowy tonality gluing them together.
The larger After image explodes the bright elements-now with enlarged coronas-in a cloud that suggests an astronomical event of significant proportions.
Both editions are signed and numbered by the artist in limited editions of twelve on 15 1/2 by 12 1/2 inch paper.
Breach
Alice Leora Briggs' new etching Breach is part of her on-going effort to examine through her art "the human penchant to possess as much as possible, know as much as possible, control as much as possible."
In Breach, Briggs displays her mastery of the cross-hatch technique and her insight into "incongruity, the pulse of madness." In the foreground, an intubated infant lies attached to a mass of invasive tubes. Rough stitching from an abdominal incision hints at an intense medical process.
In the background, two robed figures from the distant past are poised to administer some portentous procedure to a child. Different eras, same penchant?
Briggs' work--so well exemplified in Chine colle polymer etching
15 x 13.5 Breach--is enigmatic, challenging, and exquisitely rendered. The artist collaborated with Flatbed master printers Katherine Brimberry and Tracy Mayrello to create this original a la poupee, chine colle gravure, a tour de force in intaglio printing.
Austin artist and arts
organizer Peat Duggins has recently completed a limited edition of twenty-five,
color lithographs at Flatbed Press in association with Art Palace Gallery.The artist collaborated with master
printer Veronica Ceci to create the original print, which visually references
Duggins' earlier work in animation.
The untitled image that he
drew on three litho plates is the lower trunk of a tree with blue butterflies
circling it.The effect is light
hearted and Disney-esque but has deeper meanings in the context of a planet
that is ecologically imperiled.Duggins has shown us nature the way it was without humankind and
thankfully the way it is still in increasingly rare pockets of wildness.The print shows off the artist's
mastery of line and the disarming charm of his draftsmanship.
Duggins, who works in several
different styles, is collected by the Blanton Museum of Art and the Austin
Museum of Art and has been very active in the new art scene that has developed
around young artists.He has been
included in the Austin Museum of Arts prestigious New Art in Austin show and in
the 2004 and 2007 Texas Biennials, and he is co-founder/director with Sterling
Allen of Austin's acclaimed Okay Mountain and founder/director of the Fresh-Up
Club, an early artist's consortium in Austin.He has been awarded numerous awards and residencies including
the McDowell Colony and the Bemis Foundation. Currently--as the recipient of
the 2008 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of
Art--he is launched on a cross-country bicycle tour to examine the American
landscape through one drawing per day and a documentary film--"A Survey of
Open Space"--directed by Duggins.Daily updates can be found on the Fusebox web site.
Duggins' new lithograph is
available at Flatbed and at Art Palace.
