AVA - Reminder: 1 Week left! Fishing parties welcome Nov 20, 2009
FISHING PARTIES WELCOME THREE ARTREACH FUN(D) RAISING EVENTS TOMBOLA. TICKING AND THE EXQUISITE CORPSE ETCHING PLATES AUCTION Exhibition closes on Friday 27 November 2009 at 1 o clock pm Tombola in the Main Gallery offers everyone the opportunity to catch a prize ... Janet Botes Etching Plate of ADAM # 1 Chris Diedericks, Judy Woodborne, Paul Birchall Ticking an exhibition of artist-made clocks will employ the Artsstrip ... The Exquisite Corpse etching plates beautifully framed donated by Judy... (AbsoluteArts.com)
AVA - New Exhibition Reminder Nov 10, 2009
The AVA in partnership with Spier invites you to the opening of THREE ARTREACH FUN(D) RAISING EVENTS TOMBOLA. TICKING AND THE EXQUISITE CORPSE ETCHING PLATES AUCTION opening at 6 pm Monday, 09 November 2009 Exhibition closes on Friday 27 November 2009 at 1 o clock pm Tombola in the Main Gallery offers everyone the opportunity to catch a prize ... Janet Botes Etching Plate of ADAM # 1 Chris Diedericks, Judy Woodborne, Paul Birchall Ticking an exhibition of artist-made clocks will employ the... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Beatty art showing at PSC Nov 5, 2009
This time, combining the etching process with hand-coloring allowed her to increase production while still maintaining the unique decorative style of her original paintings. The idea behind this exhibit, she says, is to inspire a visual provocation nudging our curiosity enough that we grownups willingly climb up over those daunting fortress walls we have spent years building to protect ourselves and take a look at ; maybe even enter into what s on the other side. (Lake Wales News, FL)
CCSF auction raises little, but art will help Oct 31, 2009
But college officials say they hope to restore two classes next spring after all, because alongside the books, handbags and decorative hair pins donated to the garage sale were a Jacques Villon drawing, a Philip Pearlstein lithograph, an etching by Johnny Friedlander, and a pair of oil paintings by Zubel Kachadoorian and Jos Rovers. "This is an impressive and generous donation of artwork from prominent artists of the 20th century," said Meredith Tryon Rogers, an appraiser of fine art at Clars... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Mikulski making his mark on art scene Oct 23, 2009
Friday 23 October, 2009. Ted Mikulski debuted his new artwork and his new book at a gallery opening at Tunxis Community College's Barnes-Franklin Art Gallery Oct. 14. (Farmington Valley Post, CT)
David and Barbara Stahl Collection is wide-ranging and captivating Oct 18, 2009
They were two of Georges Rouault s aquatint etchings from Le Cirque, a gorgeous series of eight prints made in 1930 and 1931 ... Just around the corner from that hell hangs another: Picasso s Sueo y Mentira de Franco (Dreams and Lies of Franco), a 1937 etching and aquatint that presaged Guernica, his masterpiece decrying the bombing of that city during the Spanish Civil War ... John Sloan s 1914 etching Love on the Roof, in which a couple embrace amid the laundry flapping on the clothesline,... (Boston Globe)
• 7 habits of highly creative people Oct 16, 2009
Roys is taking one at the University of Alaska Southeast in etching. And both Craver and Law recently took trips out of town to take classes. (Juneau Empire)
RDU to offer free food, prizes at Friday celebration Oct 9, 2009
Each signature collected was transferred to a glass etching. The piece is internally lit and is encased in a wood frame. (Triangle Business Journal)
'Persistence and patience:' Founders Park Plaza project set to begin Sep 14, 2009
Tim Hamilton of Sand Scripts, Inc. will do the etching, Brown said. He said the plaza shows the south half of the original town of Hay Town, which later evolved into Rapid City. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Old Settler’s Day at Bishop Hill Sep 10, 2009
He has previously shown some of his Bishop Hill etchings and the bronze bust of Krans ... Artist Jordan Murray will be available to answer questions on both his bronze works and to sign offset colored prints of his etching of the historic state-owned Bjorklund Hotel. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Paris-themed fundraiser nets $6,000 for MSKI Aug 25, 2009
The Glory of Winter, framed color etching; donated by Tom Gardner (framing donated by Artworks); sold to Diane Stanley. Sunset Cruise on the Mississippi, a river cruise and picnic; donated by Tom and Kathy Richardson, Ed and Jeanene Breitenstein, and Mike and Karen Hickey; sold to Ed Kircher (two boats) and Mike Carr (one boat). (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
Glossary of Antique and Vintage Pri... Aug 23, 2009
Etchings were made by using acid to eat away at the lines traced onto a metal plate that has been coated with beeswax. This is known in the printing trade as "biting." The drawing is scratched onto the coated metal with an etching needle, the metal plate it then bathed in acid and the acid is left to fill in the scratched lines and eat away or "bite" the copper plate in those areas ... The first etchings were created in the 16th century and the medium was pioneered by old master painters,... (Suite101.com)
Turner and his Welsh inspiration Aug 14, 2009
The picture is paired with this famous etching by Italian artist Piranesi ... It is paired with a famous etching of Roman ruins by the 18th Century Italian Giovanni Battista Piranesi. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
* [ART JOURNAL] Adaptation of the artistic Jul 22, 2009
David Salles sensual etching with an Asian motif is US$1,500. At US$350,000, Murakamis 2005 diptych Eye Love Superflat seems overpriced. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Peters, Musser, Lauson earn sweepstake prizes in cultural arts, photography Jul 10, 2009
Decoupage: 1st - Kay Bjork, 2nd - Rebecca Koenig; Dolls (any media): 1st - Sharon Peters, 2nd - Erica Kranich; Glass etching or painting: 1st - Laura Veach; Jewelry: 1st - Shirley Blizek, 2nd - Laura Veach, 3rd - Lois Kressin; Leather work: 1st - Lois Kressin; Plaster: 1st - Vivian McDonald; Pottery: 1st - Nancy McCarthy, 2nd - Rachel Krejchi ... Acrylic, birds: 1st - Lorraine McInnis, 2nd - Mary Beth Smith; Acrylic, floral: 2nd - Judith A. Hayes; Acrylic any other not listed: 1st - Delores... (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
The Neuchatel Institute of Microengineering (IMT) of EPFL and BrightView Systems Announce Collaboration for Solar Cell Production Process Optimization Solutions Jul 8, 2009
PV-Lab infrastructure comprises of all necessary characterization and testing tools, as well as an impressive process technology array of more than 15 deposition reactors, etching systems, laser scribing tools and laminators that allow for the fabrication of complete devices, from layers and cells to finished modules. The IMT has been initially developed within the University of Neuchatel and was integrated in EPFL on January 1st, 2009. (PR Newswire)
Tarble Arts Center to offer August workshops for adults Jul 8, 2009
This workshop will focus on a printmaking technique that allows the user to transfer a photocopied image to paper using an etching press to create a print, which can then be combined with drawing or painting media. Workshop fees are 40 for members and 48 for non-members. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
A photographic vacation at NewTV Gallery Jun 30, 2009
Fisher digitally transforms her shots to saturate the colors and produce images with silkscreen and etching qualities. Myrvaagnes s technique results in a more abstract style described as fluid and intense. (Boston Globe)
Peter Schjeldahl: James Ensor’s irreality. Jun 29, 2009
One of the foremost modern masters of etching ( Hop-Frog s Revenge and My Portrait in 1960 [1888]), Ensor painted like an angel while conceiving like a devil. But it would take a susceptible soul to reward the MOMA show with Ensor s strenuously sought response of laughter out loud. (New Yorker)
Stanley William Hayter : From Surrealism to Abstraction Jun 4, 2009
In Paris in 1927 Hayter set up a print workshop, Atelier 17, where he invited artists to investigate the expressive and technical potential of engraving and etching ... IMAGEStanley William Hayter Centauresse, 1944 engraving and softground etching with stencil inking Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. (AbsoluteArts.com)
David Hannah, William Tucker: pairing of ideas May 31, 2009
The 1924 etching of Chiesanuova appears to mark a turning point, with Morandi proving to himself how much descriptive work an ostensibly rote technique can do. This understanding bore fruit in sparse late graphite drawings that give voids and volumes nearly equal presence. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Ketchum house capitalizes on mountain setting May 26, 2009
Finally, they christened the home Chanteclair, etching the name in stone outside. A Canadian maple leaf on the sign signals David's roots in Canada, where his Welsh grandparents homesteaded near Edmonton. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Citrus Ridge Decorative Artists Meet May 23 May 20, 2009
This month s project is etching on a glass dish. All interested painters, from beginner to advanced level, are invited to attend and join the CRDA chapter. (The Fort Meade Leader, FL)
Spring exhibitions on display at SUNY Oswegos Metro Center (11) May 1, 2009
Seen at the Metro Center are several of his smaller scale drawings that showcase his unique mixed media approach of using etching ink, asphaltum and linseed oil on photographic emulsion. According to Perdiguero, The drawings that I create are free hand renderings of animals and human figures, where chiaroscuro plays a predominant role, and the application of the ink, through a reductive process, gives the work an ambiguous pictorial sense. (Oswego Palladium-Times, NY)
Birds of a feather - in this case, scavengers - gather together Apr 19, 2009
There are hatch marks down the side of the image, intended to deter anyone from making a print of the copper etching, but it served only to make the image more interesting. They traded "a load of firewood" for the piece. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Expressions in Abstract : Abby Jones Apr 15, 2009
"PEGASUS ", Etching, 1988 US$ 400( : 314 UK : 268 en: 37450 ). (online or phone). (AbsoluteArts.com)
Art Gallery Offers Glass Etching Class Apr 11, 2009
Published: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:08 AM EDT Frostproof Art Gallery will host a glass etching class on Thursday, April 23, at 6:30 p.m.. Master etcher Vicki Alley will go through all the steps to show how to create works of art using a safe and reusable etching cr;me ... Ms. Alley plans to offer more etching classes in the future. (The Fort Meade Leader, FL)
A decent proposal at Concord's Old Manse Apr 7, 2009
One of those rare instances occurred as Berens and Tunick toured the room where Emerson and Sophia Hawthorne did some of their best work he writing books against one wall and she etching simple sentences in a window opposite the author s desk. Tunick s smiling face was cast in a saffron hue as she bent forward to see the words Sophia wrote with her diamond ring. (Concord Journal, MA)
‘Arts in the Park’ celebration Saturday Apr 2, 2009
Wickenburg Art Club members will demonstrate in a variety of media, including clay, etching, ink, jewelry, oil paint, pastels, scratchboard, watercolor, carving, and wood turning. The Wickenburg Gem Mineral Society will demonstrate how to carve jewel-quality cabochons. (Wickenburg Sun, AZ)
The strange tale of a Chinese emperor's French prints Mar 28, 2009
Works from a collection of Emperor Qianlong's prints include an etching reworked with burin by Jean-Denis Attire ... Many centuries later, the Mongols overran Uighur lands in the course of their conquests, which embraced territories stretching from the borders of present-day Poland in the west to the Pacific shores of China and included the Middle East ... Directed by the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin, the best masters of the genre executed etchings, and also made prints from the same brass... (International Herald Tribune)
Baltimore museum puts art under the big top Mar 25, 2009
The show includes 36 works by Picasso, most of them drawings and etchings from the museum's collection that were acquired by sisters Etta and Claribel Cone in the early 20th century ... The Cones eventually bought more than 100 of Picasso's etchings and drawings ... Many of the etchings treated subjects similar to "The Acrobat Family," a strange and haunting picture of a gaunt harlequin sitting next to his wife and child, whose pose is meant to evoke classical paintings of the Virgin Mary. (Yahoo News)
The European Fine Art Fair kicks off in a blaze of discoveries Mar 14, 2009
The existence of the picture was known from a 17th-century etching that gives a clue to its rare subject in the Latin caption printed under the image: "Iesus Admirabilis." Done in the 1650s, the picture departs from traditional iconography. An ineffable smile of understanding lucidity illuminates the face of a boy aged 12 or 13 who looks at the viewer from beyond our world. (International Herald Tribune)
Sunaryo's Poetry of Inner Dreams Mar 5, 2009
Nevertheless, batik, he believes, is a local phenomenon, and so the batik motifs in his works are either intertwined with the thumb, such as in Parang in Space - made using silkscreen, pastel and collage on STPI handmade cotton paper - or appear as if sunken in an abyss as in Passages of Dawn C, a collage of silkscreen, collagraph, etching, acrylic paint and paper pulp on pigment-stained STPI handmade cotton paper ... The works range from a somewhat surrealist landscape from which the thumb... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Mexican prints: From posters to art Feb 26, 2009
Regrettably, no details or information could be obtained on the specific type of print: everything was just called "engraving", whereas some of the artists are known for their specialty in lithographs and etchings which differ from engravings by a working method using acid to achieve features such as intricate crevices and lines ... Meanwhile, Maryanto has recently been involved with etching ... While presenting them in combination with the Mexican "heavyweights" may appear somewhat unbalanced... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Part Art, Part Entertainment, Part Education Feb 25, 2009
" Variety of Glass Work Gary Rice founded Astral Glass Studio and Gallery in northern California near Lake Tahoe in 1974. He later met and married Judy, a glass blower who owned her own studio. "He likes to say that he married the competition," she remarked with a grin. They moved the studio to Clarksville, Mo., back in 2003. Astral Glass creates a variety of glass work - handblown glass, glass jewelry, fused glass, kiln formed glass and stained glass. "In California we were really well-known... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
On 'Day of Reckoning' Obama vows US will recover Feb 25, 2009
Obama shook hands and hugged lawmakers before etching another moment of history, becoming the first black president to address lawmakers before a huge American flag in the House of Representatives. "At this crossroads of history, the eyes of all people in all nations are once again upon us, watching to see what we do with this moment, waiting for us to lead," Obama said. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Decorative Painting Class Planned Feb 21, 2009
Alley also plans to schedul a class that will teach the basics of etching on glass. Article Rating. (The Fort Meade Leader, FL)
Dodging and disguise in Gay Outlaw's artworks Feb 15, 2009
Here he contributes a series of pictures that pay homage to Albrecht Drer's famous 1493 etching of rumpled, shadowed pillows. Muniz has re-created the marks made by Drer's burin, almost line for line, using pins and nails. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Museum to bring fragile prints out of hiding Feb 12, 2009
Etchings, engravings, lithograph, linocut, drypoint and fabric relief are all represented in the exhibit, he said ... McGrady said one of the highlights of the exhibit is the Giovanni Battista Piranesi etching "View of the Pyramid Gaius Cestius," a print that dates back to the 18th century. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Offender art on display in Fort Madison Feb 11, 2009
Works were showcased in a variety of mediums, from colored pencil drawings to black graphite portraits and leather etching that resembles lithography. All of this came together after the inmates sold their hobby craft goods last October to benefit the Fort Madison Food Pantry, said Sandy Brown, director of the conventions and tourist bureau. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
Breathe in, breathe art Feb 8, 2009
The exhibit incorporates the many mediums Davies used, Mazow said, adding Davies, a prolific printmaker, also worked with lithography, etching and mezzotint. Davies is usually associated with his role as one of the main organizers of the Armory Show in 1913 -- the first comprehensive exhibition of modern European and American art in the United States, Mazow said. (Daily Collegian, PA)
