NEW ARTWORK AVAILABLE AT eve-N-odd GALLERY

Jennifer Kosharek, owner/curator of eve-N-odd Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida has a new show opening up on April 9th. The theme: THE STUFFED BUNNY SHOW.

I've been wanting to try something a little different with my linocuts, so the challenge to make a stuffed bunny with a linocut image as both the front and back was a welcome challenge. I ended up with an edition of 12 printed, sewn and stuffed BERUBE BUNNIES. Each comes with a hand-printed signed linocut tag with the edition number. Not wanting the bunnies to escape, I also created a small coat hanger wire basket to keep them safe until they find their new homes. Please contact the Gallery for purchases. The bunnies are only $20/ea and there's a limited quantity. Get them while they're still available.







Also available for purchase is a small edition of the BERUBE BUNNIES linocut on 100% acid free paper. $30/each



As part of a collaborative effort with eve-N-odd Gallery, I also created and printed up a Berube-Bug celebrating the Gallery. A small edition of the print is also available while we print some t-shirts up to also have for sale in the Gallery. Print $30/each

EVE-N-ODD GALLERY

I wanted to do something fun to commemorate my friend Jennifer Kosharek's opening of EVE-N-ODD GALLERY in St. Petersburg, Florida in the Crislip Arcade.

Stay tuned, we're looking to have this printed up on t-shirts to sell at the Gallery.

PRINTED PIECE



SKETCH ON LINOLEUM



PARTIALLY CUT LINO



FROM THE GALLERY

JENNIFER KOSHAREK / eve-N-odd GALLERY OPENING

645 Central Avenue #11, St. Petersburg, FL

My good friend and fellow MailArtist Jennifer Kosharek is opening a gallery space in Saint Petersburg Florida this weekend, featuring outsider, whimsical, folk, etsy, mailart, fluxus, emo, and handmade ART, and some specially chosen vintage pieces

JENNIFER KOSHAREK / SELF PORTRAIT



Please show your support for an amazingly tough cookie and a roster of incredibly talented artists by visiting her sites, checking out the items available and buying something special.

THE FIRST GALLERY SHOW


A SMALL SELECTION OF GOODIES AVAILABLE


Please check out and "Like" her FACEBOOK page

And follow the gallery's very own BLOGGER page.

MUNCHER CUCUMBER SEED PACK ARTWORK - Mention In NEW PALTZ TIMES & HIGH FALLS MERCANTILE ONLINE SHOP

I somehow missed this mention in the New Paltz Times.

And Also on the online shop at HIGH FALLS MERCANTILE

"FINLANDIA" PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION

Early last summer I was asked by Ron Abram, Associate Professor of Drawing & Printmaking at Denison University, Granville, Ohio if I'd be interested in contributing to a printmakers portfolio addressing the subject matter of Equilibrium using Tom of Finland as the jumping off point. The portfolio will be exhibited as part of the SGC (Southern Graphics Council) International's conference being held on the campus of Washington University at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, March 16-19, 2011.

Needless to say, I was more than thrilled to be given the challenge of creating my response to one of my favorite Artist/Illustrators.

Here is the direction I chose.


Initial Pencil Drawing Directly on Linoleum


Inked Linoleum


Hanging to Dry


Final Print

HOLIDAY PRINTS THROUGH THE YEARS

MIMZY JOY - 2010



I started printing up my own Holiday cards in 1995, having been to design school but never taking a printmaking class I decided to teach myself how to print linocuts. I can't quite remember exactly what inspired me to work with linocuts other than the fact that I believed by using this medium I would be forced to work in a less detailed fashion than what I was used to doing with many other mediums including, graphite, pen and ink and acrylics. As you can see with time, I found a way to work around that perceived notion of a"less-detailed" medium.

Not knowing what the proper tools were in order to do an actual linocut, I bought a piece of wood-backed linoleum and when the time came to actually cut the image out, I grabbed what I was used to working with, an xacto-blade and got to work cutting out my first piece. That became the 2-color self-portrait holiday card I created while still living in Boston in 1995.

I continued to work like this until I moved to NYC the following year and just happened to meet Javier Cintron, a brilliant artist in his own right who at the time was working in the printmaking workshop of Bob Blackburn. Through Javier, I discovered that there were proper tools to cut linoleum with and places where they actually had printing presses to print editions out on. I'd sneak in when Javier was monitoring the shop and work on my own projects while observing the rest of the artists. Eventually when I became comfortable enough with the environment, I became a monitor and as part of the job, I was allowed to use the presses during my shifts.

As time passed, I was able to purchase my own medium-sized press and the rest is history. I'm pretty sure at this point I have a few hundred images printed up over the years.

The following prints represent the work I've created as Holiday cards as well as gift tags between 1995 and this week. I look back at the images and I'm amazed at just how personal and revealing they really are. Although the subject matter changes each year, they have all become self-portraits allowing a glimpse into my state of mind at the time of creation.

I hope you enjoy checking the images out and HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!

1995 - SELF PORTRAIT


1996


1997


1997 - GIFT TAGS


1998 - NEW YORK'S INFLUENCE (One Of My Favorites Too)


1998


1999 - (A BUSY PRINTMAKING YEAR)








1999 GIFT TAGS


2000


2001 ( A Very Sad Year Here In The City)


2002


2002 - GIFT TAGS


2003 - SANTA CLAWS


2004


2004 GIFT TAGS


2005 - BETHESDA FOUNTAIN / CENTRAL PARK (Image Part of "1-A-DAY" Series)


2006 - ROBOSANTA (Image Part Of "A FACE A DAY" Series)


2007 - HOLIDAY WHIRLING DERVISH

2008 ROBO-SNOWMAN

HAPPY HOLIDAYS 2010

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

I decided that it would be mutually beneficial to have my friend Joshua Fennell over to carve and print our Holiday linocut cards. This was his first time to ever cut a lino out, and it inspired me to work on an image as well.

As you can see, my dog Mimzy is an amazing subject to have. ;0)


MIMZY - JOY




CUTTING THE GOLIDAY LINO




JOSHUA'S HOLIDAY CARD




JOSHUA AND HIS NEICE, "MIMZY"

MY SEED PACK ART MAKES IT ON "THE HUFFINGTON POST"

MY SUBMISSION TO THE SEED PACK ART COMPETITION

"But Greene and Muller--an ambitious, passionate team--aren't content to simply revive the art of seed-saving and preserve rare regional varieties of fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs. They're out to revive and preserve another endangered species while they're at it: artists. So, every year, the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which offers an ever-growing variety of seeds through its online catalog, commissions original artwork for the its Art Pack seed collection, a botanical bonus that makes the packaging as distinctive and worthy of preservation as its contents."

THE FULL ARTICLE HERE:

Please check out THE HUDSON VALLEY SEED LIBRARY for a wonderful selection of original Holiday Gifts.