Flatbed is so very pleased to offer our first resident artist for the Jerry Manson Residency to Adrian Armstrong. The Manson residency is a three-month residency offered once a year to a local artist who uses printmaking techniques in their primary practice.
Read MoreAnnouncing the publication of “INTAGLIO”, the catalog of images by Lance Letscher for the upcoming exhibition “Intaglio”. The 29 color pages catalog the new beautiful color etchings created by Letscher at Flatbed Press from 2020 - 2021. Read more about the catalog and come for the exhibition.
Read MoreBEHIND THE SCENES AT FLATBED - Ben Muñoz is an award-winning Texas-based artist. Muñoz's work is often reflective of his heritage, upbringing, and current surroundings. Muñoz’s work which is deeply rooted in his family and family heritage juxtaposes images from popular culture with the mysterious and the well-known.
Read MoreBen Muñoz carved three woodblocks in July of 2021 for the Las Hermanas Suite. Each of the woodblocks refers to one of Muñoz’s three daughters and are titled with their names: Florence, Jane, and Daphne.
Read MoreFlatbed is extremely proud to have Celia Álvarez Muñoz as one of our artists. Celia describes herself as an Artivist; as an artist and an activist and her practice includes the creation of artist’s books, photography, installation, and public art.
Read MoreFlatbed is extremly proud to have Alice Leora Briggs as one of our artists. She was honored to be a Guggenheim recipient in 2020. Quoting from their site: “Her investigations into human frailties have generated thousands of drawings, woodcuts, letterpress books, broadsides, and site-specific architectural installations. These works have been featured in over forty solo exhibitions and are included in over thirty-five public collections, including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, and Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.”
Read MoreFlatbed had the pleasure of working with Bruce Lee Webb in 2017 to create a series of etchings called the “Road Hog Series” and a smaller etching titled “Cowboy” The “Road Hog” prints were printed in three different editions with color variations.
Read Morelatbed is so pleased to have worked with Judy Youngblood on her series of etchings titled “Stormy Weather” in 2016. Judy Youngblood is an active artist whose work spans paintings, fine prints, and mixed media.
Read More“The Six” was Lance Letscher’s third print to be published at Flatbed in 2020. The print which measures 45” x 31” is a dazzling image that combines drypoint linear constructs with color fields.
Read MoreFlatbed is very pleased to announce the release of the two newest editions in Annalise Gratovich’s ongoing series of eight, Carrying Things From Home. The two new images titled, The Mother and The Undertaker are the fifth and sixth life-size woodcuts by the first generation Texas artist, representing life and hope, death and loss.
Read MoreDuring the Covid year of 2020, Flatbed stayed busy working one-on-one with artist Lance Letscher creating a new body of works using intaglio and relief techniques.
Read MoreJoin us for the Facebook live recording of Katherine being interviewed by Carrie Tiemann.
Read MoreMatthew Forrest is an artist, educator, and printmaker based in Gray GA. Forrest has over 12 years of fine art publishing, and community outreach experience which he uses within his classes to connect community needs to in-class projects. He is driven to make printmaking more accessible for students with disabilities and has worked with a number of groups to advance art outreach within middle Georgia and beyond.
Read MoreFlatbed is pleased to announce the launch of its co-publication: Norma Trist, a Livre d’Artiste, with Houston-based artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin. The artists have used the source text from the 1895 novel by John Wesley Carhart, a groundbreaking work that contains stunningly progressive defenses of same-sex desire, that was the foundation of their 2016 installation: "50 States: Texas".
Read MoreIn the spirit of a Holiday in the Time of Covid, Flatbed is offering a special price for some of our favorite prints. We’ve selected two prints from eighteen artists and are giving a deep discount during the four days running from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.! Read more about this and see images of the selected prints.
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Read MoreLance Letsche’s past printmaking experience and love of the intaglio process and mark making on copper has inspired a body of intaglio works created as co-publications with Flatbed Press.
Read MoreFlatbed is delighted to invite you to join us and 63 other international exhibitors on October 14th at 12 Noon EST for the online edition of the E/AB Fair. Flatbed will be featuring the 2020 publications and select Artist Books by artists John Alexander, Alice Leora Briggs, Michael Ray Charles, Suzi Davidoff, David Everett, Sue Heatley, Melissa Miller, Ben Muñoz, Lance Letscher, and Jay Sullivan. Look for daily social media posts of the featured prints and emails featuring each of our artists.
Read MoreYou are cordially invited to come to a small group reception for Richard Armendariz at the Flatbed Gallery on October 3 and tune in at 6 for the “Conversation between Friends” Zoom with Richard and Gilbert Cardenas! Read more for information.
Read MoreFlatbed Press is proud to present Ship of Fools,, our first annual Flatbed subscription print, by the renowned artist, John Alexander. Ship of Fools is Flatbed’s 2020 Friends or Flatbed subscription publication made possible by the Friends of Flatbed who receive an annual print with their membership. A limited number of prints are available for purchase. Link to see this etching in our artists’ collections and purchase.
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