New Registrations
Unique Materials and Approaches by Vermont Printmakers
Co-Curated by Rob Hunter and Mark S Waskow Frog Hollow Craft Gallery September, 2016
New Registrations Unique Materials and Approaches by Vermont Printmakers September 2016 Frog Hollow Gallery Burlington, VT
Co-Curated by Rob Hunter and Mark S Waskow
Frog Hollow Craft Association Inc FROG HOLLOW IS DEDICATED TO THE EXPOSURE AND APPRECIATION OF VERMONT FINE ART AND CRAFT. THROUGH SALES, EXHIBITIONS, AND EDUCATION, IT EXISTS TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, AND TO PROMOTE THE AWARENESS OF THE ESSENTIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE HANDCRAFTED.
Staff Rob Hunter
Frog Hollow Craft Association Board of Directors Carol MacDonald- President Lynne Bond - Vice President Rachel Morton - Secretary Eileen Blackwood - Treasurer Susan Raber Bray
Frog Hollow Gallery Board of Directors Liz Lawrence - President Cody McKibben Kevin Ruelle - Secretary
***Prices listed in this catalogue apply to the listed works only during the duration of the exhibit and are subject to change.
Executive Director
Founder Allen Johnson
Cover image: Double Reach by Leslie Fry
NEW REGISTRATIONS Curator’s Statement
Printmaking, perhaps more than any other type of visual art, requires the artist to not only be creatively and aesthetically gifted, but also technically proficient. This art form as a discipline requires a great deal of practice with and dedication to the process of creating an image via a variety of printing techniques. Therefore, many artists who use printmaking become very expert from a technical standpoint, often pushing the boundaries of this activity. While working towards perfecting their art; new techniques, materials, tools, and combinations of processes often are developed, both intentionally and accidentally. This exhibition celebrates printmaking that is “outside of the nine dots.” That is, those works of art created either by non-traditional methods and/or non-traditional materials and/or unusual combinations of techniques. There is probably more of this work being fashioned than one would imagine, and yet I have never seen another show that dealt with this topic. The only constraint on the selection of work on display here, was the intent to show works made by Vermont-based artists or those made by artists with substantive Vermont connections. This was done to help fulfill the Mission of Frog Hollow. Even though Vermont is the second smallest State by population, as you will see, there are many artists creating works in ways that are consistent with the underlying premise of the exhibition.
Some, like Jeff Feld, used a standard printing methodology, in this case, screen printing. Here, with this body of work however, instead of ink on paper, he used water on a large sheet of French sponge. As the underlying narrative was a series of Madonna and Child(ren) after the Masters, he used Holy Water on Sponge. Others like Carleen Zimbalatti, have created their own printing surfaces. In this case, she fashioned a series of patterns from string and glue, and rather than inking them to do a series of relief prints, made a collagraphic plate, which she then used as an intaglio and created a small edition of unique works of art. Also, Claire Van Vliet executed numerous works using glass plates to create lithographs, instead of traditional stones or other materials. These prints are known as vitreographs. These glass plates can be printed in a planographic manner as Claire did, or they can be printed as intaglios, wherein the glass plate is a surrogate for the traditional metal etching plate. Finally, there are some artists like David Bumbeck, who use a variety of techniques, sometimes quite extensive and complex, to contribute to a finished work of art. In terms of techniques, there can be manipulated photo-etching further modified by aquatint, line etching, open bite etching and engraving, as well as blind embossing. Further, one print may involve multiple plates arranged to create a complete narrative on the paper. The purpose of a curated show, is to display artworks in a manner that enhances the opportunities available to viewers to appreciate the work not only visually/aesthetically, but also as a consequence of the context created, to gain an awareness of the art historical or current cultural connections, have an extraordinary experience, and most of all, act as a catalyst for further thought and/or activity. Historically, some exhibitions have acted as cabinets of knowledge. Both Rob Hunter and I hope that at some level, this show will move you in one or more of these ways.
Mark S. Waskow, Founder/Director The Waskowmium, Burlington, VT Co-Curator, New Registrations
Works
John Anderson
Constellation, 2000 Monoprint, Ink on Plywood, Nail Impressions, Rust, Snapped Chalk Line, Graphite Pencil 22� x 30� $950
John Anderson
Insulation, 2000 Monoprint, Ink on Plywood, Asphalt Shingle, Spun Fiberglass Insulation, Dry Pigment, Snapped Chalk Line, Colored Pencil, Roofing Tar 22” x 30” NFS
David Bumbeck
Ancient Wind, 1990 Multi-Plate Intaglio – Photo Etching (manipulated), Aquatint, Line Etching, Open Bite Etching, Engraving 11 ¼" x 15 ¾" $850
David Bumbeck
Enchantment, 1993 Multi-Plate Intaglio – Photo Etching (manipulated), Aquatint, Line Etching, Open Bite Etching, Engraving, Blind Embossing 15� x 20" $1,150
Bill Darling
Big Tree, 2016 Intaglio – Plein-Air “Drawing” w/ Kerosene on Hard Wax Ground, Open Bite Etching, Variable Ground Effects, Aquatint, Spit Bite ' Etching, Selective Sanding, Chine Colle 27” x 21” – $750 (Framed) 12” x 9” – $500 (Unframed)
Bill Davison
Bullet, 1976 Screenprint w/Gunpowder 24” X 13” $700
Bill Davison
Plume, 1998 Archival Pigment Print, Screenprint Collage 22” X 30” $1,400
Jeff Feld
Madonna and Child (after Crivelli), 2003 Screenprint w/ Holy Water on Sponge 42" x 33" $3,000
Leslie Fry
Duplex, 2009 Monoprint on Paper and on Silk 16½“ x 12½“ x 4½“ $900
Leslie Fry
Double Reach, 1999 Monoprint w/ Organic Plant Material, Ink and Gouache on Paper 12½" x 30" $900
Philip Godenschwager
Wild Bill Takes the Hill, 1994-Present Digital Prints, Wood, Plywood, PVC Pipe, Mucilage, Hardware 15' x 4' x 6' $15,000
Photo by Jack Rowell
Rick Hayes Untitled, 2004 Decalcomania 3" x 4" $300
Rick Hayes
Untitled, 2004 Digital Print of Altered Waterless Lithograph 11" x 9" $450
Carol MacDonald
Orb VI, 2016 Experimental Monoprint 24” X 24” $1,500
' Michele Ratte
Island 5, 2011 22kt Gold + Palladium Monoprints on Silk, Linens and Velum, Fishing Line, Archival Acrylic Box 4� x 6� $2,100
Sue Schiller
Elephant, 2009 Sculptural Montage (Toner Etchings, Drypoint) 8 ¼” x 7" $500
Sue Schiller
Asia II, 2006 Sculptural Montage (Toner and Sugarlift Etchings, Dry Point) 11 ¾" x 9” $750
Daryl Storrs
Broadbrook/Daybreak, 1984 Lithograph - Analog Black+White Photograph shot and developed by Artist, Collaged w/ Iridescent Mylar, Photocopied and then Transferred to Litho Stone 9” x 18” $395
Daryl Storrs
After the Snowfall, 1985 Lithograph - Postcard, Collaged w/ Iridescent Mylar, Photocopied and then Transferred to Litho Stone 15” x 10” $395
Claire Van Vliet
Basalt Reef, Moeraki, New Zealand, 2009 Vitreograph 15” X 30” $750
Claire Van Vliet
Capitol Reef, Utah, 2008 Vitreograph 15” X 30” $750
Carleen Zimbalatti
Movement in Four Parts, 1998 Intaglio from Reverse Collagraph of String Relief 21" x 84" $2,360 (Framed) $1,715 (Unframed)
Detail
Artist Bios
John Anderson Ferrisburg, VT John Anderson creates a wide variety of fine art, architectural murals and custom art tables, while also tackling creatively challenging residential architecture projects and product design work. John brings 43 years of professional experience to bear on both his art and design work. Today, John's primary focus is his art work. Some of John's art relates to architecture and construction, while others reflect his travels and experiences over the years.
David Bumbeck Middlebury, VT David Bumbeck was born in 1940 in Framingham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Framingham High School in 1958 and won a full scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design. He studied with Gordon Peers, Robert Hamilton and Gilbert Franklin and was awarded the R.I.S.D. Scholar Award and the European History Program. In 1963 he studied painting under Walter Murch in the Boston University graduate program. He was awarded a full scholarship to the Syracuse University graduate program, receiving his M.F.A. in 1966. He went on to teach at the Massachusetts College of Art before accepting a position at Middlebury College. His career developed over thirty-five years culminating with him attaining the rank of Professor of Art and Chairman of Studio Art. He retired in 2002. David Bumbeck's resume lists fifty one-person exhibitions, over three hundred group exhibitions and prints in fifty museum collections. He has won numerous awards and is a member of the National Academy of Design.
Bill Darling St Johnsbury, VT Bill Darling was born in White Plains, New York in 1955. He studied painting and printmaking at The Art Students League of New York and was the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards including two years of consecutive study from the Sherwood Foundation. Bill received grants from St. Johnsbury Academy to attend printmaking workshops in San Francisco at Crown Point Press and with Keith Howard In British Colombia, Canada. Notable commissions include a four by six foot oil painting painted on location at Shirakawa, Japan, a designated Unesco World Cultural Heritage site and a life size bass wood sculpture of the crucified Christ for the main altar, St. Johns Catholic Church, St. Johnsbury , Vermont. Bill works in diverse mediums but intaglio printmaking is his passion. He teaches drawing, painting and printmaking at St. Johnsbury Academy, St.Johnsbury, Vermont. He is co-owner, with his wife artist Kim Darling, of Gatto Nero Press Studio and Gallery where they host exhibitions, teach work shops and create and publish intaglio prints.
Bill Davison Burlington, VT Bill Davison was born in Vermont in 1941 and educated at Albion College and the University of Michigan (Master of Fine Arts). Now Professor Emeritus, he taught at the University of Vermont for forty-two years. His work as a visual artist has been acknowledged in the past four decades through numerous international and national invitational print exhibitions. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants and has been reviewed in catalogues, magazines, and books, including Thirty Years of Print-Making at the Brooklyn Museum. Bill's Prints are included in fortyfive museum, university, and private collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Dartmouth, The University of Michigan, Wesleyan, and the Franklin Furnace Archive of Artist's Books in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Jeff Feld Ridgewood, NY formerly of Burlington, VT Jeff Feld’s work speaks to the problems that lay at the core of human relationships: promises are broken and the actual falls short of expectation. This vision is largely informed by his experiences as a child protective social worker in Northern Vermont. His work both investigates and represents how we navigate, sustain and sometime see anew the dissonant circumstances we confront every day. Jeff Feld lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. His sculptures and drawings have been featured in both national and international exhibitions, including White Columns, Artists Space, The Drawing Center, The Brooklyn Museum and the Queens Museum of Art in New York, the Rokeby Gallery in London and Dunker Kulturhus in Helsinborg, Sweden. His most recent solo exhibition A.F.O.T.D.T.D. (a failure of the day to day) took place at the Fresh Window Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Leslie Fry Winooski, VT Leslie Fry’s sculptures and works on paper are inspired by basic human needs: food, shelter, clothing, love, and consciousness. Her art has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the globe including Artists Space and Exit Art, New York; Kunsthaus, Hamburg; Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul; Windspiel Galerie, Vienna; Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and Centre des Arts Visuels, Montreal. Public projects have been specific responses to architecture, history, and landscape. Commissions include Wave Hill, New York; International Sculpture Festa, Seoul; Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Housing Vermont and Burlington City Arts, Burlington, Vermont; and Pinellas County Cultural Affairs, Tampa Public Art Program, and Broward Public Art Program, Florida. Originally from Montreal, Fry earned a B.A. from the University of Vermont, an M.F.A. from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and attended the Central School of Art and Design in London.
Philip Godenschwager Randolph, VT Phil is a multi-faceted artist with a background in drawing, design and sculpture, having more than 35 years of experience working in the art and design fields. He has operated from his studio, Atlantic Art, Glass and Design in Randolph, Vermont since 1988. His work often deals with social and political issues, current events and observations about everyday life. Growing up in a military family, he moved more than a dozen times before graduating from high school. The experience gave him a unique perspective on the variety of cultures in the world as well as the innumerable number of ways one might see any situation. This perspective continues to inform his art to this day. He graduated with honors in art from Fort Knox High School in Kentucky, received his BFA in Graphic Design from Ohio University and his MFA from Vermont College of Norwich University, with an emphasis on glass as a medium for sculpture. Phil has designed packages for Procter and Gamble, Rock-n-Roll concert posters, Auto shows for Chrysler, restored a turn of the century amusement park in Pennsylvania, designed numerous wood and gas stoves in Vermont, art directed a 30' clock tower for FAO Schwarz in NYC, designed and built the world's second largest Kaleidoscope, installed amusement rides in Japan, and instructed an Italian company how to make 3-D animatronic characters. He has taught continuing education classes to adults in stained glass fabrication and architectural board drafting to college freshmen. He has illustrated for magazines and designed several houses. In short, a life lived making art.
Rick Hayes Middlebury, VT Following a short career as an attorney, Rick became an acknowledged expert on horse racing and a published author before receiving his BA at UVM in Studio Art. Since then Rick Hayes has embraced the existential mindset and lifestyle of an artist. He has been a member of Arts Caravan in Burlington during the 1990's, acted as curator for the Mezzanine of the Fletcher Free Library and traveled extensively throughout North America, Asia and Europe in search of beauty. Rick has been included in many local and regional group and one-man exhibitions. Former Seven Days fine art reviewer, Marc Awodey, wrote of Rick's work: Many of [his] images seem like postcards from a strange world too complex to be comprehended or fully described.
Carol MacDonald Colchester, VT Carol E.S. MacDonald is an artist, and master printmaker living and working in Vermont. She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Lake Placid School of Art. Recent exhibitions include: Etui Fiber Arts, Larchmont, NY; Madelyn Jordon Fine Arts, New Rochelle, NY; The Drawing Room, Cos Cob, CT; Washington Printmakers Gallery, Silver Springs, MD; Galerie Maison Kasini, Montreal, Quebec; Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT. She has been a featured artist at Vogue Knitting: LIVE in New York City, Chicago and Seattle. Her work was shown in Foot Print International at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, Papier 12 Contemporary Art Fair in Montreal, Quebec and Parallax Art Fair in New York City and Miami. MacDonald has been an artist fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She received the 2008 Barbara Smail Award from Burlington City Arts, an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Vermont Arts Council in 2007 and the Susan B. Anthony Award in 1999 from the YWCA for Leadership in the Arts. Her work is in many private and corporate collections. Including: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT; Johnson & Johnson Corp, NJ; Champion Paper International, Stamford, CT; San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA; Gelman Library, George Washington University, Washington DC; Shearson Lehman, American Express, NY, NY.
' Michele Ratte Brattelboro, VT Educated at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction), Ratté was the recipient of the College’s Marcus Heiman Award for Achievement in the Arts, as well as, the Marcus Heiman Project Award. She furthered her study at the Broadbrook Mountain School, Royalton, VT with master printmakers Ray and Holly Nash, and at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center with Michael Mazur. Ratté established a printmaking studio at Vineyard Arts on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts where she taught printmaking and exhibited her prints and collages. In 1989, she was awarded a month-long residency at the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York. Following the residency, Ratté’s textiles were sought-out by a fashion accessories buyer from Barneys New York, initiating a business venture that became Michele Ratté Fabric Design, Ltd (MRFD). For a decade Ratté owned and operated a workshop that produced her art on hand-printed textiles. MRFD textiles were featured in many magazines, including Womens’ Wear Daily, New York Magazine, Mirabella, House and Garden, and Travel and Leisure. In 2000 Ratté resumed a full-time fine art practice. She relocated to southern Vermont in 2009. Shortly after, she won the Bennington Museum’s Regional Arts Program competition for a one-person show ("Michele Ratté-Splendent Earth", June 25 – August 7, 2011). Vermont Public Radio aired a review of the show on their program "Picture This" by commentator Anne Lawrence Guyon, July 18, 2011. In 2013 Ratté was awarded a Dune Shack Residency by the Outer Cape Artist Residency Consortium in Provincetown, MA.
Sue Schiller Norwich, VT Sue Schiller graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Michigan State University and subsequently received a Bachelor of Professional Arts degree in Advertising and Illustration from the Art Center School in Los Angeles, CA. She worked for several years as an art director in New York ad agencies, then decided to leave the commercial business and began working as a printmaker and painter. In 1969 she received the outstanding artist in Greenwich Village Art Show scholarship to the National Academy of Art where she studied woodcuts and wood engraving during 1969 and 1970. In 1970, Sue was awarded an additional scholarship by the National Academy. Her work was shown in a few small galleries in the city. In 1977 she was hired to art direct some projects for Sesame Street which led to her doing free lance work for them until 1981. While continuing to work independently on her painting and woodcuts, Sue studied printmaking at the Art Students League with Michael Pelletieri . From 2007 until 2011, Sue worked with Vijay Kumar, master printer at the Manhattan Graphics Center. She has been a member of the Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT for the past 10 years.
Daryl Storrs Huntington, VT While studying at Middlebury College Daryl discovered printmaking. “The creation of hand made multiples appealed to both my artistic and practical sensibilities. I knew this was something I wanted to do, but how would I proceed?” Her answer came in the form of a Vermont Life article about Sabra Field which mentioned that she hired an assistant every year. Daryl wrote to her, interviewed, and 6 months later was working in her studio, learning about woodcuts and the business of art. After a two year apprenticeship, Daryl went to U. Mass, Amherst where she earned a Masters in Printmaking while focusing on lithography and teaching art to undergraduates. Returning to Vermont, she continued to make prints and to teach art while waitressing to pay the bills. “I started to make earrings and began to sell them to customers when they saw me wearing them in the restaurant. This began the jewelry business and thankfully ended my waitressing career.” Daryl moved to Huntington in 1990 and renovated an old barn next to her house which now serves as a beautiful studio. “My time is divided between making prints, jewelry and pastels which all focus on the Vermont landscape and color. The pastels have an immediacy and the added benefits of working larger, using more color, and getting me outside on a beautiful day!”
Claire Van Vliet Newark, VT Claire Van Vliet is widely recognized as a master artist bookmaker and printmaker and has won numerous awards including election to the National Academy, two Honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts and the prestigious MacArthur Prize Fellowship. Born in Ottawa in 1933, she spent her childhood in Canada and England, and moved to California in 1947. She graduated from San Diego State College and earned her MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Van Vliet founded Janus Press in 1955, through which she has published handprinted books illustrated with original prints and pulp paintings. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as the rest of the world and has been featured in numerous publications, books and articles. Janus Press moved to Vermont in 1966, and has produced approximately 110 publications, some of which have been selected for the AIGA annual Fifty Best Books and the New York Type Directors Club exhibitions.
Carleen Zimbalatti Plainfield, VT Ms, Zimbalatti has a MFA from Bennington College and a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design. She has shown her work in the US and abroad, most notably at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, Parallel Space and lorimoto in Brooklyn, NY, Westbeth Gallery in NY, Spheris Gallery and AVA Gallery in New Hamsphire, Goddard College, Helen Day Art Center, SEABA Gallery, The Southern Vermont Art Center and Bennington Center for the Arts in Vermont, 263 Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, England, and Galerie Look and Listen in Marseille, France. While Ms. Zimbalatti’s work has been featured in many online curatorial projects and exhibitions both nationally and internationally, her last solo exhibition, Plane Division: Sustained Meditation showcased her most recent line paintings on repetition. Ms. Zimbalatti is also recognized for her curatorial work, group exhibitions which include The Significance of Detail, Beyond Measure, Linear Obsessions, Geometric Strategies, Overlap, Distil, and A Fundamental Aspect of Pictorial Language As Expressed in Line. These shows created platforms to invite dialogue on contemporary issues in art and nonreferential concerns in painting. Ms. Zimbalatti lives and works in Vermont where she has taught painting, drawing, printmaking, and metal-smithing at various colleges (including Dartmouth, Goddard and Vermont College), adult education programs, and at Stowe High School.
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