Printmaking Collaboration / Diane Fine

Diane Fine and I have known each other for over twenty years. We first met when I was a taking her Introduction to Printmaking class at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. That was the first of about eight or nine printmaking courses I completed under her guidance. I went on to earn my MFA at the University of Wisconsin in 2006, years after Diane earned her MFA at the same institution.

We have had residencies together, first, in 2006, at Venice Printmaking International Studio in Italy and later, in 2014, at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. But, it wasn’t until the summers of 2014 and 2015 that we actually began our first collaborative venture. We held our printing sessions in the studio at SUNY Plattsburgh, which was a return to my roots (my hometown) and, for both of us, a return to the origins of a unique and nurturing relationship that has moved from teacher/student to colleagues to collaborators.

Alterations & Revisions

This is the most recent body of prints created between 2016 and 2017. Prints began with barely started (one layer) or unresolved prints from previous printing sessions.

Sideshow

In the Summer of 2016, Diane and I got together to collaborate on a new project. Our process led us to begin a more complex project, and to complete prints of six states of a single linoleum block.

Riffing

Riffing is a series of thirty 11 x 11 inch relief prints created from one or both of two linoleum blocks that we each had a hand in carving. There are thirty prints in the series. There could be sixty…ninety---the simple building blocks are there. Ink color, stencils, ghosts, printing order = an infinite number of possibilities.

Advice

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

After Hours

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Angle of Repose (After Stegner)

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Asylum

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Canapé

2017
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Climate

2017
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Curriculum

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Frame of Reference

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Guide

2017
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Helm

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Jitterbug

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Latitude

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Premier

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Strategy

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Tally

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Zest

2017
Relief, monoprint | Relieve, monograbado
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Incidental Anatomy 1

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Incidental Anatomy 6

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Sideshow: State 1

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Sideshow: State 2

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Sideshow: State 3

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Sideshow: State 4

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Sideshow: State 5

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm

Sideshow: State 6

2016
Relief | Relieve
11 x 11 in | 28 x 28 cm