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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 →
The guys at PRINTERESTING are editing a future edition of "The California Printmaker". They asked artists to write articles or create comics for the publication. Below is my offering, "Printmaking Splendor"; an homage to Harvey Pekar's "American Splendor". My comic tells the true story of a WVU high school recruitment event and the reaction I... 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 an image I have been working on for about a month now. It is an image for a future CMYK Silkscreen. I thought I would use this post to show a little bit of my process. I am currently taking all my imagery from the same comic book "Iron Man" Issue 178. In... 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 →
This semester WVU printmaking students participated in an exchange portfolio with University of New Mexico print students. There were a number of really great prints included in the portfolio, but below are some of the highlights. A huge thanks to Professor Shaurya Kumar at UNM for organizing this, from the looks of the prints his... Continue Reading →
My work is included in the "31st Annual National Print Exhibition" at the Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The exhibition will be up from April 15 to May 25th. The opening reception is on April 15th from 6-7pm.
I love Artists Image Resource (AIR). Since moving to West Virginia in 2004, I have gotten to work with and know Bob Beckman and the AIR staff. It is a great facility with a strong educational and outreach mission. They are located in a very large space on Pittsburgh's North Side, by the Mattress Factory.... Continue Reading →
Well, in a jam packed night, AIR also showed the "From the Muddy Banks of the Monongahela" portfolio. This was portfolio was organized by me and features some of the great alumni and past professors that have worked in the Printmaking Program over the years. Below is the portfolio... Michelle Moode, “What, like a parade?”,... Continue Reading →
Aaron Williams was the other WVU students showing work at AIR last Friday. Aaron is also an undergraduate student, primarily he works with sculpture; but Aaron is the kind of interdisciplinary student we love to have in the Division of Art and Design. His show was called "somnwhere" and was made up of digital prints... Continue Reading →
Joseph Lupo 