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Wingate Studio is pleased to announce an upcoming show of work from the studio. Printer’s
Proof: Selections from the Wingate Studio Archive The show features work that spans thirty years of prints made at Wingate, from Sol LeWitt and Louise Bourgeois to some of our most recently published projects, including Walton Ford and Ambreen Butt. Opening Reception is
Friday, October 16th at 6:30 pm
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This print is now available! Contact us for more information.
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Guitar
(Tele), 2009
This May we began working on a pair of large aquatints with the painter Matt Phillips. We are excited to announce the completion of the first of these images. Guitar (Tele) references one of Matt's paintings, and has retained the visual architecture of the painting. But in this aquatint, Matt has introduced more color and changed formats. This print pushes the image further. It has become as much a portrait as an exploration of geometry, tonal color shifts, and the aesthetics of quilting. Collage plays an important role in Matt's work, both as a practicable technique as well as a means of smelting conceptual infrastructure. Matt's interest in music and the relationship between sight and sound come together, as he visualizes the theoretical language of musical composition. Matt uses intaglio printmaking to collage these oblique ideas with a homey visual language. Disparate elements on different plates are sewn together through printing as colors weave their way between layers. With scraping and burnishing, Matt directly references these stitches. Guitar is a clever homage to traditional quilting: it fuses the abstract thought behind much modern painting with the aesthetic comfort of your grandmother's quilt. Matt has shown work extensively in the U.S. on both coasts. His work is currently on view in Los Angeles at Cerasoli Gallery in L.A. He teaches painting at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA.
Matt at work on his plate map here at Wingate. Matt's prints rely on the accurate tracing and transfering of complex triangluar forms. |
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Nantes In the last few months Walton Ford has been back at Wingate Studio working on a new etching entitled Nantes. For the first time in his intaglio work, Walton has limited his pallete in the manner of 16th century chiaroscuro woodcuts or European Old Master studies. This print is consistent with the majority of Walton's work, preserving the use of historical narrative in the tradition of James Audubon, and like Walton's other prints, the animals depicted are drawn to scale. As a result, Nantes is printed from a large copper plate, measuring 30 by 40 inches. In addition to this new, spare pallette, Walton has replaced the birds that frequently star in his etchings with a diabolical Diana monkey. These changes have made this project particularly exciting for us as we help Walton approach etching in new ways. We hope to have a B.A.T. in November.
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This print is now available. Please contact Wingate Studio by phone or email for pricing and further information. Ahmed Alsoudani is represented by Goff and Rosenthal in New York and Berlin. More information is available here from their website. Follow the links for a full article from Art and Auction discussing Ahmed's work.
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Wingate Studio is proud to announce the completion of its first print with Ahmed Alsoudani. Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1975, Ahmed now lives in Berlin having recently completed his MFA in painting at Yale University. Ahmed's paintings and drawings begin with his own personal visual experiences, and often describe a strange juxtaposition of brutality and the mundane. Deformed figures and ambiguously human shapes mingle in otherwordly landscapes. Gestural smears of charcoal and paint contrast with carefully rendered architectural objects and static planes. A muted pallete is interrupted by explosions of saturated color. Ahmed's work may start with a disturbing image, but in its construction and the repeated reworking of a particular instant, it transcends horror. We are left with a beautiful object that alludes to its ugly source, and the emotions it conjures. Here at Wingate Studio, Ahmed has approached etching with an open mind and his unique style. During this project, he experimented with various intaglio media. In doing so, Amed learned to master many of these techiques while at the same time uniting them in original and exciting ways. The result is a print that is refreshing in its approach to intaglio printmaking. This image exists distinctly as an etching, but ultimately retains the painterly feel that is central to Ahmed's work. Untitled is a hard ground etching with aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, drypoint, roulette, and scraping and burnishing, measuring 27 x 30.5 inches total.
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