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Also on Friday April 6th, the WVU MFA program exhibited their recent work. Thomas Stollar, Erica Passage, Vlad Bassarab, Morgan Milders, Mike Loop, Lei Meng, Kofi Opoku, John Baker, Sarah Olsen, Silas Spellman, Meghan Olson, Kristine Synowka, and Lindsey Estep all showed work at AIR. We have a really great program with some great students!... Continue Reading →
From Feb. 16th to the 18th I was in Roanoke, Virginia to participate in the Marginal Arts Festival. Hollins University Porfessor Jennifer Anderson asked Alan Skees and myself to make some 8'x4' woodcuts and steamroll print them during the festival. We cut wood for about two days, with the help of some Hollins students, then... Continue Reading →
Below is my print for the "50 Places" national print portfolio organized by University of Colorado Boulder Professor of Printmaking Melanie Yazzie. There are 50 printmakers in the portfolio, one from each state; and they are ALL really great! The portfolio will be shown at various locations across the country and will be included in... Continue Reading →
Below are pics of a series of prints based on full page layouts of the Iron Man comic book I have been working with for some time. All imagery has been removed with only the frames and solid black talk bubbles remaining. All 23 pages of the original comic is printed with silkscreen on grey... Continue Reading →
Below is my print for the "East/West" national print portfolio organized by University of Louisiana at Lafayette Professor of Printmaking Brian Kelly. There are 50 printmakers from the EAST and 50 printmakers from the WEST; and they are ALL really great! The portfolio will be shown at Central Connecticut University starting Sept. 07 and at... Continue Reading →
All the prints are in, and I am now in the process of packaging up portfolios and shipping them off. Thanks to everyone involved, I think we made a really great portfolio. "Printmaking and the Mundane" was organized by Janet Marcavage and myself. It was inspired by the 2010 CAA Panel of the same name,... Continue Reading →
Below is my contribution to the "Reflections of Dunkard Creek" exhibition that will be shown here in Morgantown. The exhibition is being organized by Ann Payne. The purpose of the exhibition is to raise awareness of new challenges to the Monongahela Watershed. To quote what Ann has written about the exhibition: "Reflections is a collaborative... Continue Reading →
Below is the print I created for the portfolio exchange/exhibition titled "Flash Gordon", celebrating the film version of the cartoon released in 1980. The portfolio was organized by Pittsburgh based printmaker Gene Marsh. The exhibition version will be shown at Judson College in Alabama. The image was taken from a Flash Gordon comic strip published... Continue Reading →
I recently visited Artists Image Resource with my students who were interning there last semester. I took this picture of the mural I painted in 2006...it is 15 feet high and 33 feet long, and time has taken its toll... then... now...
Melissa Harshman is organizing a portfolio of UGA Graduates called Black Sheep due this March...Below is my entry... "Best Friends" CMYK Silkscreen 2"x9.5"
Joseph Lupo 