The California Printmaker
The Journal of the California Society of Printmakers
2024
Focus on Black and White
Table of Contents
- Under the Dimmest Light by Tsz-ki Cheung
- Removing Distraction by Tekla McInerney
- Revealing the Essentials: The Achromatic Aquatint by Stephanie Zeiler Martin
- Stayin the Shade by Lu Lee
- Value vs. Color by Lynne Johnson
- An Interior Monologue by Michael Krasowitz
- PhysicaIity of Space by Toru Sugita
- Focus on Black and White by Judy Bergman Hochberg
- Marrying Form and Concept in Conceptual Art by Nanette Wylde
- The Silencing Of Women Is So Loud by Monique Martin
- Creating Powerful Prints Using Tonality by Traci Mims
- Why do I use Black and White? by Fawaz Rob
2023
Changing Gears
Table of Contents
- Shifting Gears by Margaret Niven
- Pale Blue Dot by Oswald Auer
- Speed Shift by John Babcock
- Piecing the Future by Alisa Golden
- Concrete and Sand by Maxine Foster
- Birds on the Edge: Collaboration and Change
- Mistake + Disaster = Enlightenment by Donna Westerman
- Covid Chronicles, A Social Practice by Ellen Shattuck Pierce
- Flipping the Paradigm by Kristina Nobelman
- Cell Projects by Kent Manske
- The Ocean Wave Project by Ariadna Abadal and Teofil Androne
- Creating a Course by Loiuse Bloom
- A Future for Tissue Transferware by Lisa Sheppy
- Paper Doesn’t Have to be Flat by Luz Marina Ruiz
2022
Metamorphosis: Printing Under Pressure
Table of Contents
- Shifting Gears by Margaret Niven
- Pale Blue Dot by Oswald Auer
- Speed Shift by John Babcock
- Piecing the Future by Alisa Golden
- Concrete and Sand by Maxine Foster
- Birds on the Edge: Collaboration and Change
- Mistake + Disaster = Enlightenment by Donna Westerman
- Covid Chronicles, A Social Practice by Ellen Shattuck Pierce
- Flipping the Paradigm by Kristina Nobelman
- Cell Projects by Kent Manske
- The Ocean Wave Project by Ariadna Abadal and Teofil Androne
- Creating a Course by Loiuse Bloom
- A Future for Tissue Transferware by Lisa Sheppy
- Paper Doesn’t Have to be Flat by Luz Marina Ruiz
2021
Printing in Color
Table of Contents
- A Colorist: One That Colors or Deals with Color by Edda Valborg Sigudardottir
- Layer Upon Layer by Roy Willingham
- Color as Memory by Emily Ketteringham
- Color as an Environmental Indicator by Elizabeth Rose
- Colored Woodcuts and Egg Tempera: A Kinship by Donna Day Westerman
- A Confluence of Color by Cathie Crawford
- The Variant Narratives of Color by Prachi Sahasrabudhe
- So Saturated, It Hurts by Myles Calvert
- The Artist’s Lunch by Liliana Esteban
- Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Illusive Color by Suzanne Klein
- New Theories in Color: RGB to RGB by Carrina Parraman
- Narrative Color by Wuon-Gean Ho
- Drawing Multi-plate Color Aquatints by Stephen McMillan
- Let the Colors Sing by Kathryn Greenwald
- Layering Color Using Viscosity by Katherine Levin-Lau
The California Printmaker 2020 - 2015
2020
Variations on a Theme: How Printmaking in a Series Influences the Artist and the Art
Table of Contents
- Seriality as Strategy and Technique by Jill Ho-You
- The Value of Asking “What If?” by Emily Stokes
- Push Repeat and Play by Babette Cooijmans
- Aesop’s Fables Works In Series by Dan Welden
- Evolutionary Robotics: Automatons Across Graphic Media by Nathan Meltz
- Immediately Intimate by Niamh Fahy
- State Proof Lithography as a Narrative by Peter Nickel
- Mixed Emotions—a Series to Grow and Recover by Hailey Quick
- Variations on Variations on a Theme by Jane Gregorius
- The Unfolding Narrative by Caroline Case
- Telling Yarns by Denise M. Smith
- Propelling a Series: Project Volumina by Karen Kunc
- Capturing the 4th Dimension by Toru Sugita
- The Vocabulary of Sadness by Liz Wolf
2019
Social Statements
Table of Contents
- Sugar Blues: Silkscreen Using Chocolate Ink on Sugar Plates by Kamil Zaleski
- Between Image and Text by Rozanne Hermelyn Di Silvestro
- How Politics Impact Printmaking—One Central Valley Perspective by Jared Barbick
- Printmaking as a Vehicle for Social Change by Lars Johnson
- Chicano Hybridity by Tony Ortega
- Transforming Printmaking: From Self-Reform to Social Change by Yasuyo Tanaka
- Welcome to the Game: Human Trafficking in America by Sarah Serio
- Johannesburg Printmaking as Collective Practice by Roxy Kaczmarek
- Printmaking, Politics and Society in New Detroit by Eno Laget
- On Press: Making Visible an Unseen Detroit by Lynne Avadenka and Lee Marchalonis
- Activism and Aesthetics by Robin McCloskey
- The Sleep of Reason: The Woodcuts of Hans Weiditz by Brian D.Cohen
- Resignation by Marcelo Román Kopp
- Polluta, the Floating Paradise by Michelle Kuen Suet Fung
2018
The New Print: Marriage of Technology and Tradition
Table of Contents
- Sensing Surface; Making Sense by Randy Garber
- Under Siege: Strategies of Print, Preservation, & the Variable Copy by Jenn Law
- Technology & Touch: Intention & Serendipity in San Francisco & Reykjavík by Carrie Ann Plank and Robynn Smith
- Between the Archival & the Ephemeral; Thoughts on New Technologies in Printmaking by Masha Ryskin
- The Digitally Created Pigment Print: A Marriage of Technology & Tradition by Sydell Lewis
- Innovation in Action by Liz Chalfin and Sheldon Carroll
- Mark To Impress by Maria G Pisano
- The Versatile Screenprint: High-Tech Tools & Traditional Forms by Pantea Karimi
- Experimenting with Innovations in Printmaking, An Interview with Beth Fein
- Peter Milton: Going Farther, Going Digital by Brian D. Cohen
2017
Evolution of Process
Table of Contents
- Tracing the Arc of Creative Pursuit—The Advancement of the White-Line Color Woodcut by William Evaul
- Echoes from the Past by Ian Chamberlain
- Trusting the Process: Making Etching Images as Poetic Laboratories with Safer Printmaking by John Graham
- Printed Fabric: A Personal and Global Evolution of Process by Tobin W. Keller
- Rolf Nesch and I—The Evolution of the Metal Collagraph by Bill Ritchie
- Finding Crooked Creek by Marissa Angel
- Invoking Mythic Women Project, Project Directed by Barbara Furbush, Reported by Kate Mulligan
- Imprints of spaces by Marine Lefebvre
- An Unconventional Printmaking Process Using Clay by Bonnie Randall Boller
- Aquatint photo-etching with acrylic floor finish by Mike McGovern
2016
Collaboration
Table of Contents
- Sphere Project: A Collaboration on a Grand Scale by Frol Boundin and Mary Robinson
- Book Bombs: Narrative Prints in a Public Space by Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson
- Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here! by Cathy DeForest
- Save the Oceans by Tsvetelina Sprirdonova and Kamen Dragomirov
- Navigating Liminal Terrain by Robynn Smith
- When Printmaking Collaboratesby AV Pike
- Combining Methods: Bob Rocco & Signblast Tape Stencil Relief Printing by Sharon King
- Close Encounter of the Collaborative Kind by Ted Orland
2015
Residencies: A Closer Look
Table of Contents
- CSP AIR
- Carrie Ann Plank / Paul Mullowney, Master Printer: Direct Gravure at Mullowney Printing
- Joanna Kidd / John Gruenwald, Master Printer: Stone Lithography at Gruenwald Press
- Toru Sugita / Thomas Wojak, Master Printer: Screen Printing at The W.O.R.K.S. “Pushing the Boundaries”
- Residencies Remarkable
- Residencies: Evolution of Experience by Barbara Foster
- On Residencies: Dan Welden by Susan Howe
- The Canging World-wise Face of Printmaking by Frances Valesco
- Constellation Studios: New Resideny Program by Karen Kunc
- A traditonal Workspace Alternative by Dana Harris
- 2014 Commissioned Print by Jonathan Barcan
- CSP’s First Annual Print Exchange by Betsy Barnam
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The California Printmaker 2009 - 1998
2009
Table of Contents
- Introduction by Joan Finton
- Angelica Carrasco interviewed by Gloria Morales
- Kim Fink edited by Peter McCormick
- Shari Arai DeBoer interviewed by Linda Yoshizawa
- Calixto Robles by Joan Finton
- Shane Weare interview by Lila Wahrhaftig
- AV Pike interviewed by Ginger Tolonen
- Robin McCloskey interviewed by Linda Yoshizawa
- Sylvia Solochek Walters by Joan Finton
- Anthony Lazorko interviewed by Joe Ramos
- Juan Fuentes interviewed by Gloria Morales
- Sarah Sanford interviewed by Ginger Tolonen
- Alice Gibbons interviewed by Lila Wahrhaftig
- George Woodward interview by Peter McCormick and Joe Ramos
- Mary Tift interview by Joe Ramos
2008
A photo essay
2007
Prints in All the Wrong Places, Art Hazelwood, guest editor
Table of Contents
- San Quentin
- Prison Block Prints, Katya McCulloch
- On the Street
- Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca,
- Calixto Robles
- Celebrating Secret History, Josh MacPhee
- The Industrial Revolution of Street Art,
- Ryan ‘Mose’ Benford
- Graphic Collectives in the Mission, Calixto Robles
- 30 years of political posters, Lincoln Cushing
- San Francisco Print Collective
- Middle of the Road Prints, Jenny Robinson
- Without Housing, DeWitt Cheng
- Exhibitions
- Yo! What Happened to Peace?, Mark Vallen
- Art and Intimidation, Stephen A. Fredericks
- Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex,
- Carol Wells
- Paper Politics, Josh MacPhee
- Propaganda III, Art Hazelwood
- Where Will it End?
- Weaving Prints into Tapestry, Nick Stone
- Screenprint into Billboard, Favianna Rodriguez
- Muertorider, Artemio Rodriguez
- Corn in the Service of Revolution,
- Great Tortilla Conspirators
- Art and Disability: NIAD Printmaking, Joan Finton
- Prints in All the Wrong Places:: In the Paper of Record?
- OP – ed – Art, Frances Jetter
2005
Traces: Chiaroscuro to contemporary printmaking
Table of Contents
- Collaborating Through a Medium: A New Chiaroscuro Woodcut After Parmigianino by Andrew Raftery
- Additive/Subtractive Method with Chine Collé in Four Color Intaglio Printmaking by Yuji Hiratsuka
- David Smith-Harrison: An Unconscious Dialogue Through the Centuries by Mary B. Moorhead
- About Printmaking as an Indirect Art by Herlinde Spahr
2000
Guest Editor: Raymond Wilson
Table of Contents
- Printsaurus and the Nature and Status of Prints:
- Artist Cooperatives in Japan by Koichi Kiyono
- More on Printsaurus by Yuriko Miyoshi
- A Brief Introduction to Modern Printmaking in China and Taiwan by Arthur Mu-Sen Kao
- Important Exhibitions of Printmaking by Taiwanese
- Artists in 1999 and 2000 by Chung You-hui
- The Australian Print Workshop by Anne Virgo
- The Printmaking Scene in Manitoba by Dan Dell’Agnese
- A Brief History of the Print Club of New York by Marvin Bolotsky
- New York City Commercial and Non-Profit Printers and Publishers
- for Printmakers by Roberta Waddell
- The Icelandic Printmakers’ Association by Valgerdur Hauksdottir
- Eastern European Printmaking Trends by Ondrej Michálek
- The Alchemy of Oleg Denisenko or the Knight of the Silver Key by Oleg Dergachev
- “Graphic Life” in the Ukraine by Oleg Dergachev
- Prints and Printmaking at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem by Meira Perry-Lehmann
- Where Did They Eat? by R.L. Wilson
- Of Pressure and Printmaking by Herlinde Spahr
- Pacific Prints 2000 by Edith Smith
- CSP Artist Profile: William Wolff by Louis Girling
1999
Guest Editor: Sandy Walker
Table of Contents
- Interviews: Alex Katz, Janet Bishop, Doris Simmelink, Karin Breuer, Ruth Fine, David Bonetti, Sheila Marbain, Anne Morgan Spalter
- Comments by Pat Gilmour from the Print Collectors’ Newsletter
- Pat Gilmour by Robert Conway
- Portrait of Two Bay Area Collectors: Harry and Herta Weinstein by Robert Dance
- Cooperative Galleries in General: The Washington Printmakers
- Gallery in Particular by Carolyn Pomponio
- The Artist and the Internet: Marketing 101 by Roxane Gilbert
- On the Edge of the Century by Louis Girling
- Faultlines/Watermarks: What’s in a Name? by Laura La Forêt Lengyel
- Reflections on Small Works at the Claudia Chapline Gallery by Joanna Present
- CSP Artists Speak: Robert Brokl, Joan Finton, Art Hazelwood, Daniel Robeski, Herlinde Spahr
- CSP Artist Profiles: Kate Delos by Richard Whittaker, Linda Lee Boyd by Benny Alba
1998
Guest Editor: Robin McCloskey
Contributors: Linda Lee Boyd, Robert Brokl, Leona Christie, Jessica Dunne,
Sherana Harriette Frances, Roxane Gilbert, Jane Gregorius, Art Hazelwood,
Karen Kunc, Jimin Lee, Laura La Forêt Lengyel, Barbara Milman,
Glen Rogers Perrotto, Daniel Robeski, Gary Shaffer, Herlinde Spahr, and
Frances Valesco
Centennial Book
In 2013 the California Society of Printmakers publish a centennial book, California Society of Printmakers: One Hundred Years, 1913–2013.
This 330 page book has more than 380 illustrations. It was designed by photographer and printmaker Joe Ramos. It has seven essays ranging from personal reflections to documented history, from a diversity of authors: Karin Breuer, Curator in Charge, Achenbach Foundation For Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Daniel Lienau, founder and proprietor of The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, CA; Art Hazelwood, printmaker, book artist, and independent curator, San Francisco, CA; Maryly Snow, emerita art librarian UC Berkeley, former CSP Historian, and printmaker; Sylvia Solochek Walters, emerita professor of art, San Francisco State University and renown woodcut artist; Sherry Smith Bell, former CSP President and print publisher; and David R. Jones, Director, Anchor Graphics, Columbia College of Art, Chicago, IL. The essays are followed by a catalog of 2013’s current 250 artist and honorary members, followed by eight appendices, a glossary, bibliography, and index.
California Society of Printmakers: One Hundred Years, 1913 – 2013 was reviewed in the May/June 2014 issue of Art in Print. Read the review here.
It was the 2014 recipient of the Art Libraries Society of North America’s (ARLIS/NA) Worldwide Books Annual Publication Award.
Here are what the reviewers had this to say:
- Fantastic in all ways! Huge project, beautifully executed.
- Well researched and written, beautifully illustrated.
- A wonderful scholarly resource; extensive illustrations, appendices, glossary, and bibliography.
- A major contribution; a valuable resource for individuals interested in print history.
- A super fabulous record of CA Printmakers; an invaluable reference/record of the society that captures the history and the current state of an important organization.
- Editorial work is impressive, in recruiting other contributors and even organizing the submission of artist statements and images from all current members.
• Beautiful publication and an overall indispensable resource to the society.
California Society of Printmakers: One Hundred Years, 1913-2013 is available in the following formats:
Kindle edition purchase
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exhibition catalogs
Printed & Stitched
In Printed & Stitched, the California Society of Printmakers and Studio Art Quilt Associates worked together to examine the overlap between the hand pulled print and the art quilt through work that is both printed and stitched. This collection will tour for through 2027.
Exhibition partners: Exhibit Envoy, Art Ark Gallery, Grace Hudson Museum, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts.
Designed by Kevin Harris. Co-written by Barbara Kibbe, Kate Deak, Connie Rohman, Kevin Harris. Essays by Christine S. Aaron and Carrie Burckle.
Purchase here. Includes free digital download. Free online viewing.
A Dialogue in Print: A Print Exchange Between the California Society of Printmakers and the Print Club of Rochester.
In 2016, two Board members, one from each print organization, the Print Club of Rochester and the California Society of Printmakers, attended a printmaking workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Through several conversations regarding their respective groups, it became evident that both organizations shared common goals and interests, as well as a desire to collaborate in the future. After several years and a worldwide pandemic, the clubs reconnected.
It only seemed fitting that two of the oldest printmaking associations in the country should work together. Most important was the desire to promote the creation of fine art printmaking and the connection between printmaker and print organization. Thus, a print portfolio exchange andexhibition were conceived. This collection of prints reflects each organization’s diversity in subject matter, artistic expression and printmaking techniques.
Featured Exhibitions: A Dialogue in Print: A Print Exchange, Coleen Buzzard/Anderson Arts, Rochester, NY, 2023. Resonance in Print, Sonoma Community Center, Sonoma, CA, 2024.
Designed by Kevin Harris. Co-written by Katherine Baca-Bielinis and Kevin Harris.
Purchase here. Includes free digital download. Free online viewing.
Mono Variations
Mono Variations was shown at Arc Gallery, San Francisco, California in January 2024. This exhibition showcases artwork from California based printmakers. Prints are presented in pairs to explore image making serially through the use of the same template, or marked plate over the course of many prints. The artwork shown is wildly inventive. Artists came to their own interpretations of the prospectus, and process, in ways the organizers could never have anticipated. Ultimately, the singular print became varied. The multiple impressions of each collection of prints tell a story, connected by its own origin and trajectory.
Designed by Michael Yochum of Arc Gallery. Juror Essay written by Michelle Edelman of TintGallery. Exhibition statement by Kevin Harris.
View here at no charge.
Contact Arc Gallery to inquire about a print copy.
Extraction: Response to the Changing World Environment
Exhibition catalog, includes two Extraction themed exhibitions during 2021. Searching for Meaning, Gallery Route One in Pt. Reyes Station, California and Extraction: Response to the Changing World Environment, Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, California.
Designed by Marilet Pretorius.
Purchase here. Includes free digital download. Free online viewing.
Thinking Outside the Frame
Exhibition catalog for Thinking Outside the Frame, New Museum Los Gatos, 2018
Designed by Helene Paulette Cote.
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