“Untethered 1 -5,” 14″ x 16,” a series of five laser-cut woodblock prints with inkjet on Shiramine paper. This series was made at Anderson Ranch in Aspen Colorado with printmaker Jimin Lee, a professor of art and head the print media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
New! Prices have been added (in red) to prints that are available for sale. Email me at jrdleach@gmail.com if you are interested, or have questions on a print. Prices do not include shipping. Local pick up in Cleveland is an option. Pieces without a price are either sold, not for sale, or committed to an exhibition. They may become available at a later date. Some prints are available but not priced, email if you’re interested!
“Nobodies Leftovers 1-3”, a series of 3 collages based on the previous “Pandemia” series. These collages are created from the scraps and shreds and failed prints from the previous “Pandemia” pieces. The figures in all these pieces are called ‘Nobodies.’
Linocut prints, metallic spray paint, various handmade paper collaged onto BFK. 13″ x 13″.
Available framed in black wooden frame, $225 (Nobodies Leftovers 2 and 3 only)
“Shreds of Hope 1-3”, a series of 3 collages based on the previous “There is Hope” series. These collages are created from the scraps and shreds and failed prints from the previous “Hope” pieces.
Woodcut prints, metallic spray paint, various handmade paper collaged onto BFK. 10″ x 11″.
“Hope Against Hope”, a series of 7 collages based on the previous “There is Hope” series. These collages are hand-printed woodblock textures and colors containing a ‘golden nugget’ of hope.
Woodcut prints, monotype, metallic spray paint, various handmade paper collaged onto BFK. 18″ x 24″.
Three from this series are part of Summa Hospital’s Healing Arts Collection in Akron, Ohio.
Above: “Hope Against Hope 1”Above: “Hope Against Hope 2”Above: “Hope Against Hope 3”Above: “Hope Against Hope 4”Above: “Hope Against Hope 5”Above: “Hope Against Hope 6”Above: “Hope Against Hope 7”
“There is Hope”, a series of 10 various size vase forms wrapped in hand printed woodblock textures and colors and assembled into vessels enveloping a golden nugget. The nugget is obscured in the vessels and takes some looking to find.
Glass, woodcut prints, various handmade paper, acrylic paint, thread. Sizes vary from 6″ to 12″ high. Pieces from this series were included in the exhibition Kindred Objects: Ceramics & Glass from the Western Reserve, at the Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, November-December 2021.
Top view to insideTopBottom“There is Hope 1”Side viewTop“There is Hope 2”FrontBack“There is Hope 3”SideTopBottom“There is Hope 4”TopSide“There is Hope 5”SideTop view to insideBottom“There is Hope 6”FrontBack“There is Hope 7”SideDetail, view to insideBottom“There is Hope 8”SideTopInside“There is Hope 9”SideTop view to insideBottom“There is Hope 10”
“100% FUN,” 6″ x 4″ sketchbook, made for “The Sketchbook Project,” a library based in Brooklyn NY that collects sketchbooks from artists all over the world. This sketchbook is now part of that library. See it at the Library’s website: https://www.sketchbookproject.com/library/S4492628
Together and Apart, 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.
Medium size available – $75, large – $100. Email for specific availability.
Uncontained Spread, 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”.
“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.
“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.
“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.
Fifteen prints in shadow boxes – $1,500
“Boxed In” can be be exhibited with varying arrangements. This was the configuration for a show at Heights Arts.
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
“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.
“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.
“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.
“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”.