Glasstire names "Temporal 'Thresholds: tracing the lines of time" one of Texas' top five this week. September 12, 2024
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Flatbed is thrilled the announce the publication of “Rookery, High Island” and “Rookery, High Island II” by Billy Hassell! Billy’s two new lithographs were signed on September 3 at Flatbed. Billy started the collaboration to create these prints in February with Master Printer, Alyssa Ebinger. The intention was to create one full-color lithograph, but during his time at Flatbed developing the image, he also approved a second version. This monochromatic version, “Rookery, High Island II” utilizes three plates from the color version
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In May of 2024, Flatbed published “Disappearance: Icons of Excess” with Hammonds. The hand-drawn lithograph with chine collé relief etching vignettes combines Hammonds’ themes of nature contrasted with human over-indulgence. Hammonds writes: “
My focus lies in conveying the fragility of nature and the impact of human actions on the environment, drawing inspiration from the mysterious depths of forests and piles of debris
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Kyle Hawley takes on the often hush-hush topic of Motherhood to unfold the tools of that calling imbued with the range of inherent emotive colors. Using mono-printing techniques, Hawley prints directly from cloth utility accessories and garments that she designed and created to assist in mothering.
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The Texas Prairie. Where does it exist? Did the city take it, pave it, and replant it? The very words conjure images of air, space, and unfenced vastness. Erika Huddleston has been drawn to preserved prairies and what she can find there to draw and paint.
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Flatbed is excited to announce the publication of Annalise Gratovich’s newest woodcut in her series “Villagers Carrying Things from Home.” This woodcut was created in the unique method of adding color by printing hand-dyed chine collé elements into the life-sized woodcut, and is the seventh Villager woodcut in her planned series of eight. Only seven impressions were printed in the edition.
Read MoreCardinal, David Everett’s newest woodcut, is a familiar bird to us in Central Texas and its range is broad across the United States. Its color catches our eye, and its loud call arrests our attention. To some indigenous tribes the cardinal, which mates for life, is considered a “matchmaker.”
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In 2023, Sullivan developed two images at Flatbed to become polymer gravure etchings. First was the image of “Box” 1, a hand-drawn skeletal probing of the space of a simple box. He had drawn this image with a certain hand-carved reed dipped a sepia-toned ink. The second was Popular Mechanics 8 + 3, a diptych intaglio image based on Sullivan's landscape drawings which are on sheets from a Popular Mechanics magazine printed with the raised-dot patterns of Braille. The images though starkly different from each other, share Sullivan’s search for the unseen.
Read MoreIt was 1973 in Terlingua, Texas and photographer Peter Leighton captured a moment of Willie Nelson’s performance during a tumultuous night set. He discovered it years later, restored the film negative, and is working with Flatbed to create a very limited polymer photogravure edition.
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Flatbed is excited to announce a new etching by Adrian Armstrong. Titled “NY 001”, Armstrong continues to explore relationships through portraiture. This etching was created in an edition of 14.
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It was 1973 in Terlingua, Texas and photographer Peter Leighton captured a moment of Willie Nelson’s performance during a tumultuous night set. He discovered it years later, restored the film negative, and is working with Flatbed to create a very limited polymer photogravure edition.
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It is too soon to lose Frank X. Tolbert 2. A great artist and friend to Flatbed, Frank brought his magical way of interpreting the world into the printmaking sphere.
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It was 1973 in Terlingua, Texas and photographer Peter Leighton captured a moment of Willie Nelson’s performance during a tumultuous night set. He discovered it years later, restored the film negative, and is working with Flatbed to create a very limited polymer photogravure edition.
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Joan Winter (American, born 1947) is a renowned sculptor and printmaker whose work is inspired by Japanese architecture.
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Ann Conner (born 1948, Wilmington) is a nationally acclaimed artist and professor, known for her colorful woodblock prints. Her work is included in a number of major museum and corporate print collections in the U.S. and internationally.
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“Angel in Passage Among Leaves and Twigs and Falling Sky Pieces” by Kelly Fearing is our featured Flatbed File of the week.
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Spencer Fidler (born 1944, American) is a master printer and teacher, whose career has focused specifically on the media of printmaking and drawing. Often challenging the traditional technical and aesthetic boundaries of printmaking,
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Flatbed Press is proud to announce the publication of three new woodcuts by David Everett. The newest to join his lexicon of southwestern creatures are Caracara, Roadrunner, and Kingfisher. These recent choices of Everett’s are all birds found in Texas. Roadrunner and Caracara are often seen in arid areas but the Kingfisher thrives near lakes, rivers, and other aquatic areas.
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James Surls (born 1943, Texas) is a world-renowned modernist known for his striking sculptures, drawings, and prints.
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“Victory: The Celebration” is a soft-ground etching and drypoint that would be the last printmaking project before Levers’ death in 1992.
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