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NEWS OF HUIPRESS ARTISTS

HuiPress is pleased to announce the opening of Sandow Birk’s The Depravities of War at the Koa Gallery, Kapi`olani Community College in Honolulu. The show runs from June 24th to August 6th.

Robert Kushner has a new exhibition of paintings titled Caravansarai at Bella Artes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show opens July 3rd with a reception for the artist and runs through July 25.

Photogravure artist Lothar Osterburg is featured in a summer show at at Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho, from July 4th to August 31.

Kara Maria's exhibition Inviting the Storm is in its final week at b. sakata garo Fine Art in Sacramento, California, closing July 4th.

Max Gimblett has a new exhibition of paintings Parade--The Presence of Beauty in Berlin, Germany at Hamish Morrison Galerie through August 1st.

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HuiPress is proud to announce the release of the Guggenheim Enso series of sugar lift aquatint etchings by New Zealand artist
Max Gimblett. The set of four prints is our first project with Gimblett, who lives in New York City and was Artist in Residence at HuiPress in July, 2008.

Gimblett Enso

With these elegant and powerful prints, Gimblett continues his lifelong fascination with the form of the Japanese Enso. In Japanese Zen calligraphy, the Enso, or circle, is considered one of the highest artistic manifestations of the contemplative mind. Famous examples of the Enso have been handed down by monks for generations, dating back to the Patriarchs of Rinzai and Soto Zen Buddhist practices.

In his work, Max Gimblett follows the philosophy of first thought, best thought, practiced by Zen priests, and popularized in American Beat culture by poets like Allen Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac. Gimblett's approach to calligraphy is meditative, spontaneous, and charged with energy.

In this series of etchings, Max faced the challenge of working not directly on absorbent paper with a brush and Japanese sumi ink, as he is accustomed, but directly on hard, polished, copper plates using a thick solution of syrup and India ink in the traditional technique called sugar lift aquatint. It is an extremely difficult jump from free-flowing sumi painting on paper to premeditated printmaking; the rigid copper and viscous sugar lift solution differs greatly from the supple paper and watery ink calligraphers spend their lives learning to manipulate.

During the plate-making process, the Ensos were drawn over and over again, and through a series of random operations some of the images were discarded, the plates washed off with water and prepared again for drawing. Upon choosing the final image, the sugar lift solution is allowed to dry, the whole plate is coated with a thin asphaltum ground called hard ground, dried again, then soaked in hot water until the sugar dissolves, exposing the bare copper where the mark once lay. The entire plate is then aquatinted--covered in a thin pine rosin dust, which is then melted with a torch to allow the rosin particles to act as a resist to the acid--and then etched for over an hour in a solution of ferric chloride.

The plates are printed in the traditional chine collé style whereby a thin sheet of Japanese gampi paper is simultaneously printed and adhered in the press to a larger, heavier backing sheet of handmade Sekishu kozo paper made specially for this project in Shimane Prefecture, Japan.

For pricing and availablilty, please contact HuiPress Director, Paul Mullowney by email. Or by telephone at 808.573.2921

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