LAPS 21st NationalSupplement to Newsprint Spring 2014

When the Los Angeles Printmak-ing Society invited me to be the sole juror of its biennial, 21st

National Exhibition, I was certainly hon-ored to be part of a long history and join its roster of distinguished past jurors who have presided over this important print invita-tional. I wasn’t, however, quite prepared for the great many conflicting notions I came to consider during the several months be-tween my juror duties and the writing of this statement.

The art world is undergoing an as-tounding, and as of yet, indefinable shift away from its historical precedent. Some might question if the art world’s very raison d’être isn’t under siege. In many academic circles today (and by extension, their prog-eny of countless MFA acolytes), aesthetics has become marginalized and the object devalued in lieu of conceptual projections. The disconnect, of course, is that anyone

By Jack Rutberg, Juror

Barbara Salanitro, left, LAPS Hospitality Chair and Poli Marichal, right, 21st National Chair, with CSUN MFA student Carl Eugene at the opening reception.

From the President

New Year’s Intentions

I ntentions are often set at the begin-ning of the year, with the span of the following twelve months holding

possibilities yet to unfold. Artists may set out to realize projects already in the works or to start fresh with a new direction.

Our community of printmakers provides a group and forum to share your creative efforts with, through the LAPS website gallery, social media, Interleaf, LA Print Space exhibitions and openings. I encourage you to update your personal LAPS online gallery page to share your most recent works, to share your efforts in the next issue of Interleaf, and to submit to the upcoming exhibition opportunities.

The Give and Take exhibition and exchange portfolio will showcase the work of printmakers nationwide, with all submitted print editions exhibited from the national printmaking com-munity, including both LAPS members and non-members. Print editions are due by March 4. The May/June LA Print Space exhibition LAPS Juried Membership Exhibition 2014, juried by Judy Chan, offers a terrific exhibition opportunity to LAPS members. March 15 is the deadline for submission of entries for jurying. A complete prospectus for both of these opportunities can be found on www.callforentry.org.

The beginning is also a good time to celebrate. Two LA Print Space exhibitions do just that, welcoming in new juried members with the LAPS New Members 2013 exhibition and presenting Los Angeles printmakers with The Press is my Paintbrush exhibition. The Press is my Paint-brush showcases prints from Francesco Siqueiros of El Nopal Press and John Greco of Josephine Press, along with work produced by artists in their shops.

I wish all of you the best of luck ful-filling your creative intentions this year, and I look forward to seeing the results of your efforts both online and in print.

Michelle Rozic

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Aspacia AnosMiguel AragonJanet BallwegCarlos BarberenaJonathan BarcanMatthew BarnesCurtis BartoneRachel BaxterNash BellowsShirley BernsteinAnnie Bissett

Cynthia BackKellie CannonRaleigh ChesneySuzanne ChouteauHarry ClewansAaron ColemanDouglas CollinsHolly DowningBarbara DuvalLin FiedlerKirsten Flaherty

Kevin FrancesOlga GerdjikovLisa GrossmanDirk HagnerVanessa Hall-PatchFlorin HateganCandace HicksWilliam HostermanRaluca IancuKathryn Jacobi

Barbara Bouman JayAmanda MearJonathan NicklowKristin NowlinBill PangburnFrancis PavyNicole PietrantoniPatricia PostCheryl RogersMichelle Rozic

Bill SalcilloJerry SchutteNeil ShigleyGrace SippyShawn SmithKelsey StephensonSylvia TaylorVinita VoogdMimi WilliamsWendy Willis

Artists in the LAPS 21st National Biennial Exhibition

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LAPS 2014 Award Recipients

1st Place aaron coleman, Heaven’s Dogs2nd Place curtis Bartone, Murano Triptych3rd Place Kevin Frances, New Apartment, New City: Scene laPs Foundation award shawn smith, Shoot Firstleonard edmonson award suzanne chouteau, Black Water HorizonHonorary mention Jerry schutte, Green ShirtHiromi PurcHase award michelle rozic, Lines In the Sand: 1toBey c. moss Gallery PurcHase award michelle rozic, Lines in the Sand: 2

who thinks great art predating post-modernism was not conceptual, has missed the point entirely.

So here we go again! For print-making in particular, this upheaval has a ring of familiarity. Having its historical beginnings in the realm of craft through engravers of armor, then reaching unprecedented artis-tic heights in works by artists such as Albrecht Dürer to Jacques Callot and Rembrandt, printmaking ultimately would generally fall fallow in the 18th century as guilds (another form of academy) throttled the very notion of original conception in printmaking (oops, there’s that “conceptual” thing again). During this period printmak-ing was generally reduced to a form of highly crafted reproductive technique. Of course, there were great excep-tions in this period. Tiepolo, Blake and Goya’s brilliant prints come most clearly to mind.

The death knell of printmaking

“should” have happened in the mid 19th century with the invention of the camera, given printmaking’s century-long, nearly moral imperative to being journalistically narrative. In fact, the very opposite hap-pened! Guilds lost their sway, and artists were liberated to investigate their works more adventurously and the Print Re-naissance was born. Original prints were valued for their originality, conceived of and executed specifically for their medi-um, and not as reproductions of works in other media.

Those attributes have served as the criteria and definition of what constitutes an original print, in spite of printmaking today again coming under siege; this time via the post-modernist strategies of “any-thing goes”. Tragically, it’s the academy

unwittingly in concert with the market-place, which has given credence to prints with no original artistic merit. Consum-erism has overtaken connoisseurship. Museums often play their role in this downward spiral as well.

The Los Angeles Printmaking Society and its international counterparts, thus by default, have a hugely important role in addressing this latest siege on printmak-ing, and by extension, the history of art.

In judging this exhibition, I couldn’t help thinking about some of these no-tions. One aspect of frustration was the requirement to choose works for their quality through a virtual process – digi-tal images on a large high-resolution computer screen. This then, was my own culpability in confusing virtual and actual, which I continuously rail against. Heaven’s Dogs by Aaron Coleman.

Michelle Rozic, winner of the Hiromi Pa-per and the Tobey C. Moss Gallery Purchase Awards.

View of the 21st National Exhibition at CalState Northridge.

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One of the special events for the LAPS 21st National was a Panel Discussion: Printmak-ing in the 21st CenturyModerated by Betty Ann Brown, CSUN art historian whose recent book, Afternoons with June, an intimate conversation with artist June Wayne in the last years of her life. The panel consisted of the gallerist and juror Jack Rutberg, artist and educator Ruth Weis-berg of USC, gallerist Tobey C. Moss and artist and master printer, Francesco Siquie-iros, whose press El Nopal Press participated in the 21st National. The panel discussion was filmed and will be available on the LAPS website soon.

There are obvious limitations in guess-ing about the touch of a line and the transparency of tone, etc., but then, one does the best one can. After looking at more than 1,300 images, some attributes became quite clear, and while there are no doubt inclusions and exclusions that would have been slightly different, I’m very pleased with the final group of 56 works chosen for this exhibition. Each of these works evoked my response – wish-ing that I could see another work by the artist. That’s nearly the best compliment I can offer to an artist whose works I’ve not seen before. I think the viewers of this exhibition will feel the same way.

Some final observations: In reviewing so many works, I noted how many artists were obsessed with loading up an image with various and disparate techniques in-cluding traditional and digital processes. Invariably they were the least interesting, and showed little regard for the needs of their composition. These were the easi-est works to eliminate. Also, there was an unusual absence of authoritative sump-tuous line. Seldom did I see a line that evoked the beauty of richness in how a line can swell and taper with elegance and nuance… chiaroscuro effects non-ex-istent and drypoint unseen. Instead, lines too often looked abraded and coarse. Be it in lithography and particularly in etch-ing, there seemed to be a lack of richness of tone... an amazingly consistent use of anemic blacks. Put down the books and get off the computer screens and make an appointment at the closest museum print department and look at the amazing vari-

ance of what a lithograph might offer… the stupefying lithographs of Bresdin, Odilon Redon’s velvety blacks, Fan-tin-Latour’s ephemeral scenes, should humble any printmaker. Indeed those qualities can be found today in a great many lithographs emerging from some of the major ateliers around the world. But in terms of etching, re-ex-amine the lines of Callot, Rembrandt,

Millet, Villon, Klinger, Kollwitz, Picasso, etc. Virtually every major printmaker of the early modern period might serve as a tech-nical model to aspire to.

I strongly suspect that the artists select-ed for this biennial 21st National Exhibi-tion, and shown here, have found their in-spiration in that legacy, and hopefully they too might serve that example for others in the future. n

Printmaking in the 21st Century

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LAPS 21st National: Another View IIISaddleback College Art GalleryMission Viejo, CA, Oct. 23 – Nov. 15, 2013Rick Reese, Vinita Voogd, Professors of Printmaking and Bob Rickerson, Art Gallery Director/Curator

Artists selected for the 2013 LAPS National Satellite Exhibition:

Anne ChernowLuca CruzatMariko IshiiMagda AudifredDavid AveryCharissa BakerMichael BarnesDouglas BosleyPatricia BrokawNathan CatlinMatt ChristieRandy ClarkSusanna DavyMollie Doctrow

Jan DorrisLaura DrapacJessica DunneRon FundingslandDonald FurstRon GarrettPaul GentryJessica GondekDavid GravesKarla HackenmillerBay HallowellYuji Hiratsuka

Vivian HordesAnita HuntGail JacobsGesine JanzenAnn Johnston-SchusterRyan KowalchikTony LazorkoEmmy LingscheitSusan MakovMichael MarshallSukaro MaruDavid MollettMeghan OConnor

Nicholas RuthBrandon SandersonJohn-Mark SchlinkDori SpectorDavid Teng-OlsenCaroline ThoringtonWilliam WaitzmanArt WergerLinda WhitneyJudy YoungbloodTeresa Zepeda

Photos by Mary Sherwood Brock

diane divelbess, Crossing Boundries, Sammamish City Hall Commons Gallery, Jan. 21 - Apr. 25, 2014, Sammamish WA.

dirk hagner, Impact and Impressions, Jan. - Feb. 22, 2014, Laguna College of Design Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Broadsides 2013, Atelier 6000, Nov. 1 –28, 2013, Bend, OR.

donna Westerman will demo at KALA Institute during SGCI’s

March 2014 “Bridges” conference in San Francisco, and have her 30 x 14 feet 6-panel print Generation dis-played, Berkeley, CA.

Jennifer Anderson, Attuned, Jan. 15 – Feb. 14, 2014 E. Taylor Greer Gallery, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA; All the Remnants, Feb. 4 – 26, 2014, Holy Family University Art

Gallery, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA.

Janet mackaig, Is this Insanity or Reality?, Ventura College Art Gallery, Jan. 22– Feb. 14 2014, Ventura, CA.

Yuji hiratsuka, New Comers, Yuji Hiratsuka and Norimasa Mizutani, Novosibirsk State Art Museum ,Novisibirsk, Russia, Opened December 24, 2013.

Joyce harris mayer, Rondels, Art Gallery, Jan. 10 - Feb, 20, 2014, Connelly Center, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

diane mcLeod, Traditional Printmaking: Pushing the Limits, The Central Coast Printmakers, San Luis Obispo Museum of Artsan Luis Obispo CA. n

Member News

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LAPS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP AWARDSThe Los Angeles Printmaking Society Foundation will provide the annual scholar-ship cash grant awards in printmaking this March 8, 2014. The competition is open to full time students, and funds will be distributed at the discretion of the jury. Applications for these 2014 grants are available now to students who submit a portfolio of 6 prints, including at least 2 edition prints. All applications must be signed by a faculty member and included within the portfolio to be hand delivered. Each applicant will be notified well in advance about the time and location for delivery when they notify me of intention to apply.If you are a faculty member, please encourage your most promising students to ap-ply. Student members of LAPS are eligible, but regular members of LAPS are not eligible, even if they are students.To request an application, please contact Barbara Frankel, Chair, LAPS Foundation. bmfprntldy@aol.com (310) 472-3261

Inking up a skateboard wood-

cut.

Prints lined the walls around the north parking lot. Students at OTIS College of Art, had worked for weeks on large plates to print.Visiting artist, Sean StarWars, worked tirelessly carving large plates with his colorful characters. He spent the day working with students of all ages, including grade school students who showed up to partake of the event. Otis College of Art provided small wood blocks and tools to encourage anyone passing by to sit down and make a plate to print. A live band added to the lively atmo-sphere. Sean was on campus for a few days carving, doing workshops and spending time with the students and faculty. There are more photos posted on the OTIS Fit to Print blog; https://blogs.otis.edu/otisfittoprint/ and Otis Printmaking Lab Facebook page. A big thanks to Sean, Ramon the master printer and driver for the day and everyone at OTIS, especially Nancy Jo Haslebacher, Linda Dare and Maggie White Lomeli.

Big Ass Prints at OtisPhotos by Mary Sherwood Brock

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As part of the activities and special events associated with the 21st LAPS National at CSUN was MONOTHON 2013 held at the printmaking studios at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) on the weekend of November 9th and 10th, 2013. The monotypes cre-ated during the Monothon were on display in the small gallery and are available as LAPS Foundation Scholarship prints, to support student printmakers in southern California.

By Miles Hochhalter and Zeina Baltagi

www.valleyprintstudio.com

At the Valley Print Studio, Zeina Baltagi and Miles Lewis kicked off the New Year in high style.

We finished renowned pop artist Der-ek Boshier’s Finance Section, New York Times screen print. Zeina currently has other projects in the works with Boshi-er, and also with street artist Alex Kizu, animator and illustrator Dustin Na-thaniel Garcia, fashion designer Jessica Bley, and etching artist Amy Elizabeth Harper.

Miles recently completed the Psychic Shop monotype series with UCLA grad-uate student and painter Nathan Zeid-man. He has also created screen-print posters with singer-songwriter Emily Colombier, and is excited to begin work with watercolorist Gregory Radionov,

Engaged

illustrator Darcy Yates, and with relief artist Alec Dye.

On the educational side of things, printmaking workshops are now on schedule.

You can find further information and register through our shop at www.etsy.com/shop/ValleyPrintStudio

The VPS is proud to announce

Sudden Impact, our first curatorial col-laboration with partner 11:11 A Creative Collective. This showcase features over 30 San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles printmakers, painters, sculptors, videogra-phers, photographers, illustrators, and in-stallation artists. Whether emerging artist or seasoned, Valley Print Studio’s goal is to trigger synergy between the Valley’s rich but relatively isolated artistic communi-ties.

Sudden Impact opened on February 21st, 2014, and runs through March 9th. The exhibition will be held at 18640 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana CA, 91356, 11:11 ACC’s traveling venue. Gallery hours are Thurs-day through Sunday 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., with extended hours for special events. Visit their website for more at 1111acc.org. n

2013 Monothon

The Monothon 2013 was guided by master printer and owner ofJosephine Press, John Greco, and Camilla Taylor, studio manager, gallery director and instructor at Josephine Press.

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The Press is My Paint BrushBy Mary Sherwood Brock

On view until March 7, 2014, at the LA Print Space of the Los Angeles Print-making Society is a selection of prints

from Francesco Siqueiros of El Nopal Press and John Greco of Josephine Press. Both are master printers who work with a range of established and emerging artists, and use collaboration and exper-imentation in all their projects. They are unique as master printers in that they are also artists in their own right and continue to make their own work alongside their collaborative projects and publications. The press is my paint brush is an explo-ration of recent work from these shops, highlight-ing the personal projects of John and Francesco and focusing on unique print processes, includ-ing a variety of monoprint approaches that both of these master printers encourage and foster at their shops.

Artists included in this exhibition are Stas Or-lovski, Michele Winkler and John Sonsini from Josephine Press and Lisa Adams, Anita Bunn, Gronk, Dr. Lakra, Ruby Osorio, Renee Petropou-lis, and Analia Saban from El Nopal Press.

The press is my paintbrush runs January 31st – March 8th at the LA PRINT SPACE of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society. It was organized for the LA Print Space of LAPS by Linda Lyke and Mary Sherwood Brock. n

Top right: Artist Stas Orlvoski working with John Greco at Josephine Press. The full story is available from the blog of visiting Montreal photographer, Marcel Hurtut, in “Printmaking LA!”; http://www.marcelhurtut.net/printinLA/josephinepress.php

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Above: Francesco Siqueiros working at El Nopal Press. Photo by Lisa Adams

Far left: John Sonsini, with text by Bia Lowe, Untitled, monotype.

Left: Francesco Siqueiros, Apparition of Resortes (Watercolor Series) 22 x 34, Lithograph monoprint.

Renew your Membership for 2014!Among services offered on the web is an online gallery, where

each member in good standing may post up to six images, a curriculum

vitae, and an artist statement on an individual page. You join the gallery

when you join LAPS.

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January 1 of each calendar year and become delinquent after March 10.

The only exception are members who joined LAPS in November. They

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In this issue:• LAPS 21st National• 21st National: Another View III • Members News• Monothon 2013• Big Ass Prints at Otis College • The Press is My Paint Brush

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LAPS members wanting to post your print images in the gallery section:Directions are posted on the Gallery section sidebar. You begin by contacting the website coordinator and requesting a member login account and password. We are constantly working on improving the site for our members. We encour-age every member to take advantage of your membership page on the LAPS website. And if you have a page already- then keep it updated! Your art work will be getting a lot of attention in the coming months, so take time for your LAPS membership page! Please see LAPrintmakers.com.

Please send members activities or other items for Interleaf as a plain text file to: dirk@dirkhagnerstudio.com

ATTENTION MEMBErS!Newsprint editor, Mary Sherwood requests that members interested in working on articles for the next Newsprint journal, which will have a theme focusing on “Printmaking Communities”, should contact her at: studiosherwood@sbcglobal.net