Kim Kei
Kim Kei is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California (USA). A sense of searching forms her approach to color, and her approach to printmaking is to listen to and collaborate with the materials themselves. Kim’s biomorphic, membranic work has implied movement. It is created with layered monotype and collagraph print techniques and low-relief sculptural skins, which become drawing partners in the process.
Chadwick Tolley
Chadwick Tolley is an artist living and working in Augusta, Georgia. His approach to color is based on principles of visual hierarchy; starting with light analogous background layers, then moving to split complimentary hues, tones and shades for key images. His approach to printmaking is to treat each print as a visual documentation of process. Currently he is working on various projects that include solo and group exhibitions, zines and portfolio exchanges.
Monika Meler
Monika Meler is an artist living and working in Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA). Her approach to color is intense and experimental and her approach to printmaking is about unlocking the potential of the multiple. Monica’s diffused, abstract and patterned work is created with alternative printmaking processes, collage and installation. Currently she is working on large print-based, paper-cut installations.
Sean P. Morrissey
Sean P. Morrissey is an artist living and working in Fayetteville, Arkansas (USA). Their approach to color is observational and their approach to printmaking is broad. Sean’s critical and research-based work is created with a variety of reproducible media, along with 3D modeling, collage, drawing and painting. Currently, they are developing a body of work for the exhibition Tiny roads that lead to nowhere, with Lenore Thomas, that pairs analog and digital print methods as framed works and takeaways.
Lyndon Barrois Jr
Lyndon Barrois Jr. is an artist living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). Their approach to color is guided by the structures of commercial printing and civic design, and their approach to printmaking is scrappy and vernacular. Lyndon’s project-based work spans across painting, collage, and sculpture, and often makes use of transfer print techniques, and occasionally lithographic or silkscreen processes.
Tanja Softić
Tanja Softić is an artist living and working in Richmond, Virginia (USA). She approaches color as a manifestation of light, time of day, season or emotional tone and her printmaking work is simultaneously grounded in traditional media but experimental and interdisciplinary in approach. Tanja’s polyphonic, layered and evocative works are created with etching, photoetching, digital print and collage, along with mokuhanga, monotype, drawing and painting.
Julie Alpert
Julie Alpert is an artist living and working in Tulsa, Oklahoma (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive, theatrical, nostalgic, and all about relationships (shiny vs matte; saturated vs dull; fluorescent vs earthtones). Julie’s installations, drawings, and collages are created using basic techniques from childhood arts and crafts like cutting, gluing, taping, and coloring. She almost never works from a plan, but with a set of materials and visual symbols, allowing the work to tell her where to go while she’s making it.
Angela Pilgrim
Angela Pilgrim is an artist living and working in Newark, New Jersey (USA). In her work she uses complimentary colors to explores color theory to further connect her language to the viewer. Her precision-oriented prints incorporate abstract shapes, patterns and Black identity/narrative. Angela works with screenprinting, risography, painting and collage. Her current work focuses on a series of risograph prints and a book about the story of black girl(s)/women hairstyle experience, and a risograph book on the connection between mother, son and the world called "black boy warrior".
Lisa Wicka
Lisa Wicka is an artist living and working in Green Bay, Wisconsin (USA). Her approach to color is responsive and her approach to printmaking is both controlled and spontaneous. Lisa’s mixed media work is created with a combination of silkscreen, relief and monoprint printmaking techniques. Currently, Lisa is working on a series that responds to the Covid-19 pandemic focusing on the use of texture in combination with coping language.
Drew Steinbrecher
Drew Steinbrecher is an artist living and working in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). He wings it with his approach to color, and his approach to printmaking is improvisational. Drew’s prints embody a controlled chaos using gelatin plate printing methods, and he also works with collage and sewing. He is currently working on a series of collages with monoprinted layers.
Michael Krueger
Michael Krueger is an artist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas (USA). His approach to color is two fold; as a means toward depiction and as a direct route to mood enhancing. His approach to printmaking encompasses fostering an unbridled imagination within the margins of a process or technique. Michael’s work embodies an insistence on drawing, a generous and open sharing of his inner life and representational subject matter. He uses a variety of print processes in combination with a slippery use of digital technologies. His work has also manifested as animations, ceramics, paintings and collages.
Kelda Martensen
Kelda Martensen is an artist living and working in Seattle, Washington (USA). Her approach to color is decisive and quick and about creating tension and compatibility. Her printmaking work encompasses making puzzles from plywood, printing textures inherent in the plates, discovering surprises through imprecision and finding the right woodgrain. Kelda’s tactile and layered works are created mostly through woodblock and monotype printing processes, and she also works with collaged prints to create edges and motion in her compositions.
Marilee Salvator
Marilee Salvator is an artist living and working in Bowling Green, Kentucky (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive and her approach to printmaking experimental. Marilee’s highly layered, abstract and biology-inspired work is created with a mix of printmaking process including etching, relief, screen-print and monotype. Currently she is juggling a few different projects including a large-scale, modular print installation and several more modest sized traditional pieces that incorporate collaged prints.
Eunice Kim
Eunice Kim is an artist living and working in the beautiful Cascade Mountain foothills of rural Seattle, Washington (USA). Her approach to color is monochromatic and her approach to printmaking is rigorously minimalist. Eunice's newest "Nature Stories" series finds material and inspiration in reclaimed wood.