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“Pandemia Symphony” series

Waiting, Intermission  18″x 47.5″, large scale linocut print on Hanji paper.

“Pandemia Symphony” series

Together and Apart, Allegro  2.5″ – 11.5″ high, 15 glass vases wrapped in linocut print on various handmade papers. Part of a series of print projects that use the repeating pattern of female figures.

“Pandemia Symphony” series 

Wallpaper Scrolls, Andante  14″ x 70 – 83″, Linocut print with red stamps, string and bamboo.

Detail:

“Pandemia Symphony” series

Pills, Adagio, 3″ – 5″ high, Prescription pill jars wrapped in linocut prints.

“Pandemia Symphony” series

Uncontained Spread, Rondo  60″ x 60″, Linocut print on fabric sewn into a quilt with red thread quilting in large circle patterns. Quilt pieced by Margaret Dobbins, quilting by Diane Wantz.

“Mixed Emotions”,  10″ x 10″, Sixteen individual 2-3 color woodcut prints created with carving and gun shots on masa. New prints from the same set of six blocks used to create 16″ x 22″ “Mixed Emotions” series (see previous post).

Titles in order from left to right: “Afraid, Anxious, Buoyed, Developmental, Dominant, Endangered, Gestating, Growing, Insecure, Invisible, Oppressed, Protected, Shy, Suppressed, Unprotected, Unreliable”.

“Yin |Yang”, 2.25″ x 3.5″, Collage on altered vintage ledger booklet.

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“Which Style Do You Like? Diptych”, two 10.75″ x 15″ prints, two-plate laser-cut woodcut prints on masa paper.

“Which Style Do You Like?”, image 7″ x 8.5″, paper 16″ x 20″, three-plate laser-cut woodcut print on masa paper. Edition of 18. Created for the Print Exchange Portfolio project at the Campana Center for Ideation and Invention at LCCC.

“Quixotica”, 6″ x 8″, artist book, linoleum print and chine college on BFK. Created a while back but posted to compliment some recent work with altered books.

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“Feminine Intuition III” and “Feminine Intuition IV”, 11″ x 8.5″, acrylic multimedia collage on Morgan handmade paper.

“Feminine Intuition I” and “Feminine Intuition II”, 12″x 18″, acrylic multimedia collage on BFK. Shapes are collaged pieces of the cartoon characters Wilma Flintstone, Nancy, and Olive Oyl.

“Climate Change U.S.A.” 17″ x 6″, 2-plate linoleum print on BFK.

“Tree | Paper” 10.25” x 8.5” closed. Woodcut, lino print, toner transfer collage on altered book.

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“Impermanence”, 23″ x 34″, collaged reduction woodcut print on Morgan mulberry and BFK.

“Boxed In”, fifteen 12″ x 12″  woodcut prints in shadow boxes on masa. Original “In a Box” is 65″ x 40″ and was printed with Lyell Castonguay of Big Ink Prints at Artist Image Resource in Pittsburgh.

“In a Box”, 65″ x 40″ large scale woodcut print on masa.

Printed with Lyell Castonguay of Big Ink Prints at Artist Image Resource in Pittsburgh.

Gender Identity Avatar Portraits

Smaller than “Avatar Portraits”, these six white line color woodcuts are 8″ x 8″ on BFK and are meant to be viewed as a group: “Gender Brown”, “Gender Pink”, “Gender Periwinkle”, “Gender Black”, “Gender Gray”, and “Gender Chartreuse”.

These prints were exhibited in The Nicholson B. White Gallery at St. Paul’s Church; “The Salon Shows”, Work of four artists from Cleveland, March-June 2017

Posted Jan 3, 2017

“Veritas Filia Temporis”, 15″x22″, Woodcut print with acrylic wash on BFK. Translated: “Truth is the daughter of time”

Posted July 6, 2018

“Super Real”, 12″x19″, Color woodcut and linoleum print with acrylic wash on BFK.

Posted March 28, 2018

“Super Real Triptych”, Three 12″x19″ prints, color woodcut and linoleum with chine collé, toner transfer, acrylic wash and bullet holes on BFK.

This print won “Best of Show” in the 2018 Valley Art Center Annual Juried Exhibition in Chagrin Falls.

Posted May 30, 2018

“Person”, 13″ x 20”, Woodcut reduction prints on BFK paper. A series of 6 possible versions of a person as suggested by the Apple iPhone emojis. All prints in the series were created from one block.

Posted October 23, 2017

“Thinking of Guns”, two 8″ x 6″ linoleum prints with chine collé on handmade paper and mulberry. Showing at Manhattan Graphics Center in NYC in the juried exhibition “The Print Effect 2018: Small Works/Big Impact” November 1–30, 2018.

“This IS a Yellow Daffodil”, 13″ x 17″ each, Woodcut reduction prints on BFK paper, 3 variations.

This print was chosen by poet Damien McClendon to respond to in Heights Arts’ Ekphrastacy event in May.

“Construct/Destruct/Construct Midtown CLE I-III” , 22.5″ x 13”, Woodcut reduction print on BFK paper. A series of 3 versions of a map of midtown Cleveland. The process of reduction printing (building the map image then destroying what you have built to create the next layer) mirrors the building and rebuilding that has occurred in Midtown during the history of Cleveland. 

“Fading Memory I-IV″, 5″ x 4.5″, Digital photograph toner transfer print and woodcut.

“Silver Lake II″, 24″ x 11″, Woodcut and linoleum print on BFK paper.

Variation on Silver Lake I.

“Truth 2016″, 16″ x 12”, Woodcut reduction print on mulberry paper.

“Cold Comfort 1”, 13.5″ x 10.5″, Linoleum reduction print and toner transfer on BFK paper.

“Media 2016”, 25″ x 6.5″, Woodcut print on BFK paper.

This print was accepted into the Morgan Conservatory Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition “American Fiber”, March-April 2017.

“Unity”,  5″x 7″ on mulberry.

Color reduction woodblock. Print started in moku hanga style, (water based inks) and finished with oil based inks.

“Here and Not”, 8″x 8″ on BFK.

Color reduction woodblock print made on the theme of Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities for a group exhibition of artist’s books at Constellation Studios in Lincoln, Nebraska. One folio page for a collaborative book to be displayed as part of a show unbound, then folded in half and assembled into a book to be donated to a museum or library artists’ book collection. Any edge of this print can be the bottom.

“Submerged”, and “Under Water”, 20″ x 7″ and 26″ x 10″ woodcut and linoleum prints on mulberry paper. Two variations using a mixture of the same plates.

“Ex Libris”, 5″x7″ linoleum and toner transfer print on handmade paper. Made for the Australian Bookplate Design Award competition. The text in the background is from a 1943 edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte set in “Monotype Bodoni with long descenders”.

This is a two color linoleum print of a Dalmation puppy. Printed on mulberry. Paper size is 9″ x 12″, image size is 5″ x 8″.