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On Tuesday, Oct. 09th, the world famous Mark Brickey (of Hero Design Studio in Buffalo) and Billy Baumann (of Delicious Design League in Chicago) "stopped by" our Advanced Printmaking class to record an episode of their very successful podcast "Adventures in Design". Mark and Billy were with us digitally, and recorded what will be Episode... Continue Reading →
On Oct. 2nd at 5.30pm, I will be giving a talk about the history of etching for the WVU Art Museum's regular event titled "Art Up Close!" I will be talking alongside Bernie Schultz, Professor and Director of Education and External Affairs for the Art Museum, for a presentation titled “A Piranesi Print: Process and... Continue Reading →
Below is a link to the recent review of the "Curator's Choice" exhibition at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh. http://triblive.com/aande/museums/2560015-74/art-gallery-berkovitz-dresbold-michelle-untitled-artist-concept-says-curator#axzz278DkOCZl
I was lucky enough to make it to the opening of "Curator's Choice" at Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh. Concept Gallery is celebrating their 40th anniversary by asking regional curator's to select an artist to show. I was asked by West Virginia University Art Museum Curator Bob Bridges to be in the show. I cannot thank... Continue Reading →
Here is a link to my new FLIKR page where I will be keeping images of my work, and posting older work there too... http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephlupo/
10 of my prints, including some of my new work from this summer, will be included in the show “Curator's Choice: Celebrating 40 Years of Concept Art Gallery” at Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh. Over 20 regional curators picked over 20 artists to show in this exhibition. The show runs from Sept. 8 to Oct.... Continue Reading →
It’s the start of a new semester, which means it’s time to get the new interns ready for their time at AIR. Last Friday, we headed up to Pittsburgh for the official start of the internship. The WVU Printmaking Program has been providing internships at Artists Image Resource since 2004. Our students are given the... Continue Reading →
For the last few months, I have been working with Artists Image Resource organizing a new national juried exhibition called PRINTWORK 2012. The prospectus can be downloaded at AIR's website here: http://artistsimageresource.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/prospectus-for-printwork-2012/. We think this is a really exciting opportunity as the juror is Nicholas Chambers, the new Milton Fine Curator of Art at The... Continue Reading →
The other major aspect of my summer research was CMYK printing all 23 pages of the Iron Man issue 178 comic. This series is similar to an earlier series of black and white prints using the entire page of the comic. All imagery is removed, and only the dominant background color(s) remain. In order to... Continue Reading →
As I alluded to earlier, I had a very busy few weeks getting caught up printing all the digital images I had been making over the last six or seven months. With the help of my studio assistant, WVU undergraduate student Joe DeLong, we successfully printed two series of prints. Below are examples of recent... Continue Reading →
Joseph Lupo 