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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
On display in the
Gallery of the Rhodes Art Center
Northfield Mount Hermon School
Gill, Massachusetts.
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
The show runs from October 16th – November 23rd
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Matt
Phillips

This
print is now available! Contact
us for more information.

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Guitar
(Tele), 2009
Aquatint with scraping and burnishing
22 x 30 plate size
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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Walton
Ford

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Nantes
Hard ground, spit bite aquatint, aquatint, scraping and burnishing
30 x 40 plate size
2009
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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Ahmed
Alsoudani

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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