"Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints" talk about tradigital artists they've worked with

 Sabrina de Turk phD  art historian)  presents the video

Here’s the website of the print place, where she is based

http://www.fineartprint.com/index1.htm

 The artist printmaker mentioned in the video, Abercrombie,  is linked to Philigrafika through their invitational portfolio

Here's their blog  http://philagrafika.blogspot.com/

Oregon Inkspot 2009

About her work Connie Carruthers, says" my artistic investigations focus on the physical aspects of who we are and on the quirky sociology of our habits. The surface of a face, the free flowing gesture of a body, or the silliness of a social convention, all help me understand a little bit more about who we are and why we do the things we do.

My struggle is to capture the texture of our heartbeat in whatever way it wants to be depicted. Regardless of the medium, the core of my work is  humour.  Irony, satire, and puns are a few of the techniques I use to engage people.

 Media used by Connie include documentary photography, silkscreen relief print, painting, photography,  sculpture and books which are for sale through her website.

It's very difficult to find any information about Torben Soborg but I remember he had a print in a previous Inkspot Oregon exchange that I particularly liked.  He seems to work mainly using video.  Here's a link to further info on his work

Dennis Raines, an interesting chap, has been featured in an interview on this blog and discusses how and why he likes to incorporate inkjet into his printmaking.  His favored print process seems to be silkscreen although he also has worked with mezzotint.  He seems to work with various art processes including drawing, photography and sculpture.  To see more of what he has been up to of late check his Flickr photo album, which are organized into 'sets. 
There are also some nice pictures of his 2 lovely cats Elli and Miles.

Jana Jakub, definitely like to create stuff on her scanner and experimenting with photography and composition.   You can see more of her stuff on her Flickr album.  Her print "Waiting Area" here, is made using  relief and inkjet.

Chris Meyer also uses relief with inkjet - it seems quite popular with printmakers creating prints for editions although it might just be that it's the process preferred by the artists concerned. This print doesnt seem anything like the prints Chris usually does which are large monoprints with intaglio.  You can see more of his work at   Chris Meyers website.

Ida Kumoji's print linocut on inkjet features the background that is much more indicative of her interests as an artist." I am trying to create a new medium, by introducing elements from different cultures.  This integration respects both languages, and the new language that is created maintains the forms of each respective culture".  She uses  "the Adinkra symbols were originally stamped in cloth, the repetition of alphabets to form these symbols brings the concept of the stamping from ancient craft to modern times"  Visit the virtual art gallery at St Katherine University to find out more. http://www.stkate.edu/gallery/shows_06_cross/
http://www.stkate.edu/gallery/shows_06_cross/

David Mohallatee's print , "121608"   is made using a bit of everything (well...almost!) here, inkjet, chine colle, stamping and woodcut.  He has a page on Inkteraction but seems fairly busy as he has not uploaded any new work for  along time. To see what prints/artworks are there check his page.

Last but most certainly not least is "Reflections" by printmaker Candace Nicol, who appears elsewhere on this site.  A prolific printmaker, Candace has explored many processes in painting and printmaking as well as making assemblages.  She recently initiated the 6 sides to every story project, an international printmakers collaborative project.

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Oregon inkspot is an international print exchange that has been on the go for a few years now and you do find some good work there, although the standard is variable.  Some printmakers enter just the one time though a few, have participated two if not three times.

It was set up by Deb Hoffnagle and Jo Topholm.  Kathelene Galloway is now the vice chair and always seems to contribute really lovely pieces.

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Elizabeth Catlett

Here's an artist I never knew about until I came across this piece in  IPCNY's archive of exhibitions within its "New Prints Programme  Elizabeth Catlett.  She seems to be held in high Esteem and  has been making art for many a year now.  Sculpture and printmaking being her two preferred mediums.  Heres a link to more of her images and no doubt more information as to her long and illustrious career.  Quite a woman it seems.

Inkjet and Mezzotint - Francisco Souto

With reference to actually combining old and new printmaking technologies Francisco Souto

says " it represents the perfect vehicle to create a body of work where the subject matter is recontextualized and disjointed by pairing objects in sequence of optical moments. It becomes the expression of complex relationships."

Jenny Schmid talks about her work at the Soap Factory

You can see more of Jenny's work on her website Bikini Press

Jo Horswills prints and blog

I rather liked this print I found on Jo Horswill's blog which I clicked on because it came up when I did a search for information  pertaining to the gelatin monoprint process. 

Jo's Blog makes for a 'familiar' feeling read and I like that she talks about her printmaking processes as well as many other things.  The story behind the making of this print of Jo's is really lovely.

  Having seen some videos about the gelatin print technique  on  You Tube I became convinced that it would be worth trying it out after all.    I say this because I initially was dismissive of it.  Maybe it's because I recently, did a few days of water color based monoprinting myself,  following my recovery from my spinal surgery that I now feel more like I want to try it out.

But NO !!  I think it's actually SEEING SOMEONE DOING IT - thats what it is!!

 The video I watched was by Linda Germain.  I am just thinking that this will be a good print technique to combine with inkjet,  as in 'the meeting of high tech with 'kitchen sink' !!!  Check out Linda's blog too which is listed on her main website.

Mary Taylor

http://marytaylorart.com