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Artemio Rodriguez
November, 2007
The Triumph of Death by Mexican artist Artemio Rodriguez is a stunning woodcut in nine panels measuring 8 x 12 feet. Carved in birch plywood during his two-week residence at HuiPress in May, then over several weeks at La Mano Press which Rodriguez founded in Los Angeles, the piece refers in exact composition to Pieter Breugel’s famous work by the same name, painted in 1562. Artemio Rodriguez is well known in California for his iconic relief prints that play on traditional themes of death, romance, and human folly that are the mainstay of Mexican folk and contemporary art. The Triumph of Death incorporates in intricate detail the popular Day of the Dead imagery to play on Breugel’s vision of an existence of an earth turned upside down, in which skeletons torture the living. Rodriguez employs his typical wit and criticism with a masterful carving skill and attention to detail in the amazing work. The edition size is ten with six sets published in a deluxe wooden case designed by the artist.
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Brad Brown
November, 2007
Ripeness Begins Corrupting every Tree is the new set of four unique prints by New York artist Brad Brown. With these large-scale prints Brown continues his work in cutting and reassembling his work in a constant process of chance operations, fragmentation, mystery, and what the artist refers to as game playing. Using woodcut and etching, Brown draws from source material fragments of Krazy Kat cartoons, airline safety cards and Japanese Shunga. Proofing takes place over several days on very thin Japanese papers, some dyed with persimmon juice, called Kakishibu, which are then layered, collaged, cut, reassembled, and in some cases burned, in a process of fragmentation based on specific numerical chance operations. Four large prints become sixteen, sixty-four, then finally two hundred and fifty-six small squares which are assembled together in to make one 4 by 4 foot print.
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Sandow Birk
May 2007
After the 2005 publication of his portfolio of etchings, The Leading of Causes of Death in America, Sandow Birk returned to HuiPress in the spring of 2006 and began a monumental print project inspired by a series of etchings called The Miseries and Disasters of War by Jacques Callot, printed in 1633.
The project consists of 15 large-scale woodcut prints, each measuring 48 x 96 inches. Printed in collaboration with Master Printer Paul Mullowney, and assisted by HuiPress printer Casey Neumann, and Rhode Island School of Design interns Samuel Carr-Prindle and Nichol Markowitz, the images follow the course of the Iraq war.
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Lothar Osterburg
January 2007
While on Maui Lothar Osterburg continued his practice of photographing site-specific installations of small models he fabricates from tin cans, plaster casts, bamboo, leaves—anything he can find—which he sets up as photographic props in nature.
At first glance, the image Return from Kaho`olawe resembles perhaps a 19th century view of a traditional outrigger canoe next to a Hawaiian hale, or house, at a romantic evening beach. The anachronistic feel to the print is enhanced by the fact that Osterburg distresses the copper plate with scratches, and doesn’t bother with correcting blemishes in the photo process. Knowledgeable observers, however, will notice right away that something is amiss with not only the design of the boat, but that the hull seems to be to be a palm leaf and the outriggers are bamboo. The waves in the background are ominously large and Hawaiians familiar with Maui would know immediately, too, that the island in the distance is the sacred island of Kaho`olawe and the waves are the famed shore break at Makena Beach. The hale and canoe are in fact only about twelve inches high.
The Lost City of Ho`okipa takes us to the other side of the island, to the north shore and famed surfing beach of Ho`okipa. There in the shallows of the water, inside the reef at low tide, Osterburg went under water to photograph a mysterious plane that bears a strange resemblance to a Japanese Zero fighter, crashed in the blue water with a sunken Greek city in the distance. The image is printed on thin blue gampi, adding to the underwater feel. Braving strong winter waves on his first trip to Maui, Osterburg attempted again and again to photograph his vision of the lost city of Atlantis and finally was successful after finding a break between late summer swells at Ho`okipa. |
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Robert Kushner
November, 2006
Pacific marks the first time in some years that Kushner has worked with traditional multi-color spit bite and aquatint etching. The print started with a sugar lift aquatint for the key plate and after subsequent color plates were added, including a soft ground impression of thrift store lace, the line plate was dropped, leaving a saturated and mysterious image. The rich and aqueous quality of the spit bite process—in which the artist paints with acid on a copper plate—has been a favorite of Kushner’s over the years.
Night Blooming Cereus, depicts the capricious and stunning local flower which blooms at night along the roadways of Maui's upcountry Makawao. The edition is a series of thirty-five unique prints in sugar lift aquatint printed on different swatches of antique kimono silk from the artist's collection. The panels of silk are printed, joined, and backed with layers of thin paper in the traditional manner of Japanese scroll mounting. Kushner then gilds each print with gold, platinum and other precious metals. |
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Joyce Kozloff
Summer, 2006
In June, 2006, Joyce Kozloff made her second trip to HuiPress to work on Voyages: Kaho`olawe, her continuing body of monumental woodcut prints which she began in 2005 and is being shown in Venice, Italy in September, 2006. |
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Kara Maria
Summer, 2006
Kara Maria produced two new direct gravure etchings in 2005, which are now being released as a formal edition of seven.
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Lothar Osterburg
Winter, 2006
Typical of Lothar Osterburg’s photogravure images which challenge the perspective of the viewer, his newest creation published by HuiPress captures the historic landing of his foam and banana leaf model at Hana Bay. |
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Enrique Chagoya
Winter, 2006
Mexican born painter Enrique Chagoya, now living in San Francisco, California, created a suite of three etchings at HuiPress in June of 2005. The set, titled Liberty Club. |
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Timothy Cummings
October, 2005
San Francisco based painter Timothy Cummings visited HuiPress in June to complete seven new etchings which were shown with new paintings at Catharine Clark Gallery from October 13th to December 3rd, 2005. |
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Don Ed Hardy
Summer, 2005
To commemorate the exhibition Wood Skin Ink, the Japanese Aesthetic in Modern Tattooing, HuiPress published a full color Japanese woodcut printed by Yasu Shibata. |
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Sandow Birk
March, 2005
HuiPress is pleased to announce the latest print project by Los Angeles painter Sandow Birk. Leading Causes of Death in America, a suite of ten direct gravure etchings, plus title page, is inspired by the graphic works of George Bellows at the San Diego Museum of Art. The set of prints was shown alongside the Bellows lithographs as a part of the museum's ongoing Contemporary Links program. |
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