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woodcut / mixed-media

From the exhibit
Collaborative Appropriation
Sfai, 2013 Diego Rivera Gallery
in which student printmakers exchanged their matrices,
each printed their own piece, then utilized the exchanged;
screen, block, etc.to create another unique print. This
is my original block print to which I added gouache
and gold leaf.

PrintAustin 2015

PrintAustin, held annually from January 15 to February 15,
is a month-long event celebrating the art of original printmaking,
 educating the public about the traditions of printmaking as well
as showcasing the innovations of the contemporary approach.

Wonderboom!

some of my prints on Etsy

pause ..

"I watched and waited with a steadfast will:
And though the object seemed to flee away
That I so longed for, ever day by day
I watched and waited still."

- C. Rossetti 


 

A mordant muse

new serigraph prints by yours truly
in IV color.


"`Hear Icenian, Catieuchlanian, hear Coritanian, Trinobant.."

a tour of Arion Press

"The Arion Press remains small, employing about ten people as printers, bookbinders, editors,and in other publishing roles. Part of the team are the highly skilled and long-experienced typesetters of Mackenzie & Harris, the oldest and largest surviving typefoundry in America,which was bought in 1989. M & H Type, as that division is also known, supplies lead-alloy  type to printers and schools around the country and provides typographic services in computer-generated composition as well.

Arion Press is a self-sustaining business and has never been subsidized by grants. It has survived through hard work, perseverance, and devotion to excellence in the crafts of bookmakingand to imaginative presentation of worthy literary texts and visual art."

The Arion Press & Grabhorn Institute 

Interview with Timothy Berry

I recently caught up with Artist Timothy Berry at his San Francisco studio, where he has been entertaining & creating for more than 11 years.. here is a brief excerpt from that visit. 

I'd like to discuss your most recent work.. How has it been informed by your Printmaking practice? This work seems like a departure from " straight-ahead " printmaking.  

It's really a chicken and egg situation as my approach to working. No matter what the process with which I am engaging might be, it has always reflected traditional ways of print creation. I’ve always felt it had a direct correlation to my dyslexia. Of course these new works actually have a formal printed element within them, so here it’s an obvious observation.

Can you discuss your process, how do the pieces evolve and when do you consider them finished? 

Simply put my process is one of tearing down and rebuilding. I cannot be linear as I don’t ever trust my initial  gestures, it's in the reconfiguring that it all makes sense. I’m looking for something I won’t recognize until I see it, and it's in that recognition that finality can also emerge. 

What / Whom inspires your work?   

I have a genuine belief that words, tales, stories, and spells have an extraordinary force in the world, that in life if you feel you’ve been beaten you can win back some measure of what you’ve lost through language, in my case a visual language.

The content of your work seems to have a narrative thread, would you consider these pieces to be evidence of memory or a specific place?

I don’t believe there is always a difference. As an example: melancholy & loneliness are feelings most people consider the same. However I feel you are lonely when you miss something you once had  & melancholy when you are missing something you never had.

 What are your future plans / where might we see these works in a completed series?  

The future is now, in that I am in the process of hand painting six of the trial proofs to be reconfigured as triptychs. The collaboration with myself that is happening between hand to computer and back to hand is very exciting and very Tim Berry.

The works are available to view online at the Magnolia Editions site & you can view the actual paintings at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA.

About Timothy Berry:

Timothy Berry has been an active and accomplished artist for over 30 years. His paintings, drawings, and prints have been exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe, including 21 solo and 75 group exhibitions.His studio practice extends to his artist’s collaborations in print as Teaberry Press. He is the department chair of Printmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and faculty at the University of California Davis.

 




Detail images from work(s) past & present
by Artist, Printmaker & Professor Tim Berry
photos: savanna snow

A mysterious seductive blackness

Horsefly

1996-2000. Wire mesh, tar, glass, and wood,

 8' 1" x 6' 7" x 7' 11"

Untitled 

2008, color aquatint etching, with chine collé
35" x 28"


The work of Martin Puryear

" Brides " Serigraph

" Brides "  by Savanna Snow , 2012
4 color serigraph, 22 x 30"

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