Taking Flight! Billy Hassell, "Rookery, High Island" and "Rookery, High Island II"

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

Hollis Hammonds "Disappearance: Icons of Excess"

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

Unfolding the Rainbow of Motherhood

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.

The Prairie Suite by Erika Huddleston

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.

"The Healer," Annalise Gratovich's newest woodcut from Villager's Carrying Things from Home

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.

James Sullivan - Seeing in the Dark

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.

New Adrian Armstrong Etching!

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.

Frank X Tolbert 2

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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The Flatbed Files No. 10 "Still Water" by Joan Winter

Joan Winter (American, born 1947) is a renowned sculptor and printmaker whose work is inspired by Japanese architecture.

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The Flatbed Files No. 9: "Park 8" by Ann Conner

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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Flatbed File No. 8 "Angel in Passage Among Leaves and Twigs and Falling Sky Pieces" by Kelly Fearing

“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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Flatbed File No. 7 "Confrontation II" by Spencer Fidler

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 File No. 6 "Cut Hand Hurt Eyes II"

James Surls (born 1943, Texas) is a world-renowned modernist known for his striking sculptures, drawings, and prints.

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Flatbed File No. 5 "Victory the Celebration" by Robert Levers

“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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Flatbed File No. 4 "Poza" by Liz Ward

“Poza” is our featured print of the week. It was created by Liz Ward in 2000 - 2001 as a part of her Increment Suite. Like the other prints included in “Increments Suite”, “Poza” was created using custom-made Kitakata paper. The paper itself is slightly green, and the print was made using a staged aquatint. It depicts a globular amorphous shape made up of gradient aqua-colored rings on a flat background.

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Flatbed File No. 3 "Group" by Melissa Miller

Melissa Miller (bo rn 1951, Houston) is a nationally acclaimed artist known for creating expressive and often mystical depictions of animals and nature.

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The Flatbed Files No. 2 - Liliana Porter and "Situation with Dog"

Liliana Porter (born 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early proponent of Conceptual art. She co-founded the New York Graphic Workshop in 1964, where she and her colleagues challenged the museum and gallery system…

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The Flatbed Files No. 1 - Julie Speed's "Ad Referendum

"Ad Referendum” by Julie Speed is our featured Flatbed Files print of the week. Speed’s most ambitious project at Flatbed was her “Bible Studies” series of 2005, where she created seven prints using collaged antique engravings by Gustave Doré, a prolific French printmaker from the mid-19th century.

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