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".
Keiko Hara
Keiko Hara was raised and educated in Japan and came to the USA to pursue her art, completing an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1976. She has lived and worked in Walla Walla, Washington, for many years. She taught art at Whitman College, Walla Walla, and also was chair of the Department of Fine Art there. Keiko’s art embraces many mediums—painting in oil and watercolor; installations using glass; and printmaking using a wide range of techniques.
Nicole Pietrantoni
Nicole Pietrantoni is an artist living and working in Walla Walla, Washington (USA). Her intuitive approach to color involves CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) halftone printing process and she takes an experimental and expansive approach to printmaking. Nicole’s colorful folded paper installations explore how humans relate to nature through using inkjet printing, CMYK and silkscreen processes and bookbinding, along with photography, text and ongoing collaborations with poets. Currently she is working on a new series of work for a solo show at Platform Arts in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2021.
Karen Lederer
Karen Lederer is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive and her approach to printmaking is experimental and painterly. Karen’s still-lifes, made with monoprinting techniques, emphasize the role of curation, artistic influence, consumerism, point-of-view and aesthetics in our daily life.
Jessie Van der Laan
Jessie Van der Laan is an artist living and working in Knoxville, Tennessee (USA). Her approach to color involves transparent layers and her approach to printmaking is “everything in variation!”. Jessie’s layered, textured and transparent work is created with monotype, relief and screenprint printmaking techniques along with drawing, watercolor, colored pencil and fiber-based materials. Currently she is working on a series reflecting on the experience of motherhood, layering figurative elements with real and constructed landscapes.
Karen Kunc
Karen Kunc is an artist living and working in Lincoln, Nebraska (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive, nuanced and intense, and her approach to printmaking is traditional with contemporary innovations. Karen’s nature-based and lyrical abstraction work is created with color reduction woodcut printmaking techniques and she also makes artists books. Currently she is working on a new series of large woodcuts with metaphoric imagery, as well as a new series of small-scale etchings for a book project that is still in the incubation stage.
April Flanders
April Flanders is an artist living and working in Boone, North Carolina (USA). Her approach to color is intuitive and expressive and her approach to printmaking is experimental. April’s intricate and often large-scale work is created with monotype, screenprinting and lithography. Currently she is working on a series of mixed media monoprints that address aquatic invasive species.
Ana Bianchi
Ana Bianchi is an artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay area (USA) in her home studio in Walnut Creek. Her approach to color is AnaLovesColor and she identifies as a printmaking phoenix–in that, whenever she returns to printmaking in her art, it is with fire and intensity. Her colorful, detailed and line-loving work is created with a variety of printmaking techniques, including: etching, aquatint, drypoint, chine-colle, xylography, linocut, rubber stamps and monoprint. In addition, Ana creates mixed media works on paper and canvas, and she works with digital tools and photography.
Ruben Castillo
Ruben Castillo is an artist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri (USA). His approach to color is minimal and monochromatic, and his approach to printmaking is slow and meditative. His intimate, quiet and sensitive work is created with intaglio-based methods such as etching and engraving. Ruben also creates work in the mediums of drawing, video and installation, and his research has a focus on queerness and the ordinary. Currently Ruben is working on a portfolio of etchings titled, “One Week in Spring”.
Matthew T McLaughlin
Matthew T. McLaughlin is an artist living and working outside of Washington, D.C., (USA). His approach to color is instinctual and his approach to printmaking is meditative. His reflective, environmental and abstract work is created with screenprint and monoprint printmaking techniques along with spray paint, colored pencils, paint pen and graphite. Matthew’s current work pushes how he thinks around color and texture as it relates to mapping and meditative practices focusing on landscape imagery.