PRINT MEDIA
How do you print without a studio, without the usual printing tools and presses? An answer to this question, one brought on this year by Covid lockdowns and distancing measures, is—you look to the world around you, for the world itself is a maker of prints. Students used their bodies, found materials, and turned their kitchen tables and home offices into image-making and printing studios. Previously learned print studio techniques were adapted, new methods were tried. These galleries show intro level to senior level students playing with print and cross-disciplinary methods: print and drawing (rubbings, object printing, stencils, stamping), photo-print processes like cyanotype and scanography, stop motion animation, e-books and desktop printed artist books. The work produced by these students this year is experimental, personal and courageous.
The Print Media galleries include work by students in the courses:
2074 Introduction to Screenprinting
2075 Imprints and Monoprints
3070 Extended Print Practice
4090L Print Media
4000 LEVEL PRINT MEDIA
KEISHA AITCHISON, 4TH YEAR, REMINISCE OF A KISS, LIP IMPRESSIONS USING METALLIC LIPSTICK PRESSED ON BLACK RAG PAPER, 2020
KEISHA AITCHISON, 4TH YEAR, TRACHEOPHYTA, FERN LEAVES STENCIL, SPRAY PAINT ON METALLIC PAPER, 2020
MELLO FANG, 4TH YEAR, PERIOD: THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE WHEN YOUR UTERUS TRIES TO MURDER YOU, STAMPING AND OBJECT PRINTING ON RAG PAPER, 22” X 30”, 2020 - A person with a uterus spends on average 2280 days (roughly 6.25 years) in total on their period throughout their life, yet we are conditioned to associate shame with menstruation and often avoid discussing it.
MELLO FANG, 4TH YEAR, A SELFISH RANT, STAMPED INK ON ARNHEM PAPER, 49.5” X 19”, 2020 - A sort of freestyle rant verse about gender as a social construct, heteronormativity, and society's expectation from women based on gender roles.
MELLO FANG, 4TH YEAR, WHY DO I CARE? HOW DO I NOT CARE?, BOOKWORK: STAMPED INK AND INKJET ON PAPER, 8.5” X 11” (OPENED), 2020 - A collection of personal anecdotes on body image issues, fat shaming, and eating disorders.
DENISA PATRON, 4TH YEAR, ARE YOU THERE?, CYANOTYPE, 24” X 18”, 2021 - My works focus on the idea of soulmates, what it means and feels like to be tied together by fate’s string.
DENISA PATRON, 4TH YEAR, ARE WE?, CYANOTYPE, 12” X 9”, 2021 - My works focus on the idea of soulmates, what it means and feels like to be tied together by fate’s string.
DENISA PATRON, 4TH YEAR, HERE, RUBBING ON PAPER, 15” X 30”, 2021 - My works focus on the idea of soulmates, what it means and feels like to be tied together by fate’s string.
THERISHA SANTOS, 4TH YEAR, IN THE WAITING I, II, III, INTAGLIO ON RAG PAPER, 15” X 11”, 2021 - From a series entitled, Intangible Company, that focuses on the art of waiting. Especially in the face of uncertainty.
THERISHA SANTOS, 4TH YEAR, IN THE WAITING III, INTAGLIO ON RAG PAPER, 15” X 11”, 2021
THERISHA SANTOS, 4TH YEAR, IN THE WAITING II, INTAGLIO ON RAG PAPER, 10” X 5”, 2021
CASSANDRA TREMBLAY, 4TH YEAR, ACQUIESCE, WOODCUT PRINT, 22” X 30”, 2020 - Guttural hand motions and dark colours capture the conflict of the verb “to acquiesce.”
CASSANDRA TREMBLAY, 4TH YEAR, TIME DISTURBED, LINOCUT, 22” X 15”, 2020 - A gestural, emotional linocut exploring the juxtaposition of stillness and movement in personal objects.
CASSANDRA TREMBLAY, 4TH YEAR, NONSENSE, CYANOTYPE, WOODCUT AND STAMPING, 30” X 40”, 2021 - A diptych that combines different processes and stamping techniques to highlight the symbols we see on a daily basis and perhaps the detail in them we neglect to see.
FRANK VARGA JR., 4TH YEAR, WHO’S MASTER? / WHOSE MASTER?, SCREENPRINT, 15” X 22”, 2020 - A diptych exploring our collective anxiety of technological obsolescence. The left pane simulates a human creative process, the right pane utilizes text generated by AI.
FRANK VARGA JR., 4TH YEAR, TABLECLOTH, SCREENPRINT, 66” X 30”, 2021 - A 1:1 scale triptych of a coffee table during quarantine. The piece attempts to visualize the unusual passage of time; morning, day, night, endlessly repeating.
FRANK VARGA JR., 4TH YEAR, INTELLIGENT DESIGN, FOLIO OF PRINTS WITH TITLE AND COLOPHON PAGES, 11” X 8.5”, 2021 - A series of scanned images contemplating a late night of existential fears.
DANIELLE WENGER, 4TH YEAR, NOSTALGIA, FOLIO OF 12 DIGITAL PRINTS, TITLE PAGE AND COLOPHON, 9” X 12”, 2021
DANIELLE WENGER, 4TH YEAR, NOSTALGIA, DETAIL OF PAGE
DANIELLE WENGER, 4TH YEAR, NOSTALGIA, DETAIL OF COLOPHON
3000 LEVEL PRINT MEDIA
JASMINE PLUMB, 3RD YEAR, DECONSTRUCTED STILL LIFE, OBJECT PRINTING ON PAPER, 2020
SABA SHARIFI, 3RD YEAR, UNTITLED, CYANOTYPE (DIPTYCH), 12” X 19” EACH, 2021
SABA SHARIFI, 3RD YEAR, I CRY IN BLUE, ANIMATION (CYANOTYPE, STAMPING), 1MIN 49SEC, 2021 - I Cry in Blue is a stop motion animation created by a group of artists using various experimental printing techniques and showcasing the complex and unique results of creative freedom and uniformity. > CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO <
SABA SHARIFI, 3RD YEAR, UNTITLED, PHOTOGRAVURE, 20” X 15”, 2020
PAULINE BRADSHAW, 3RD YEAR, “A FINE BREAKFAST”, PHOTOGRAVURE, 9.5” X 14”, 2020 - A distinctive porcelain duck foot egg cup deserved to be elevated to a breakfast still life in celebration of its function and charm.
PAULINE BRADSHAW, 3RD YEAR, “S/S 2021 READY TO WEAR”, SCREENPRINT, 12” X 9”, 2021 - A statement about how masks have become ubiquitous and even fashionable during our shared experience of Covid-19.
SARA BURSEY, 3RD YEAR, OCEAN ROCKS, INDIA INK STAMPING ON RAG PAPER, 11” X 8.5”, 2020 - A series of prints exploring the ocean and its quasi-parental relationship with everything found within it. Each print illustrates the rhythmic movement of the stones that find their way into the waves, destined to become sand.
SARA BURSEY, 3RD YEAR, PHANTOM BODIES, INDIA INK STAMPING ON RAG PAPER, 30” X 22”, 2020 - A slightly comical interpretation of the concept of a “body.”
EILEEN JEN, 3RD YEAR, SCRATCHES, E-BOOKWORK, 11” X 11” (OPENED), 2021
EILEEN JEN, 3RD YEAR, ASHORE, CYANOTYPE, MONOPRINT, CHINE COLLE, 30” X 24”, 2021
JESSALYNN RAMGOOLAM, 3RD YEAR, REFLECTIONS, OBJECT PRINTING ON PAPER, 36” X 48”, 2020
JESSALYNN RAMGOOLAM, 3RD YEAR, UNTITLED, OBJECT PRINTING AND INK ON PAPER, 22”X 30”, 2020
JESSALYNN RAMGOOLAM, 3RD YEAR, SOLEMN, STAMPED INK ON PAPER, 22” X 30”, 2020
LEAH SMALL, 3RD YEAR, PURPOSE HIDDEN IN TIME, EBOOK, TITLE AND COLOPHON PAGES, 11” X 9” EACH, 2021
LEAH SMALL, 3RD YEAR, PURPOSE HIDDEN IN TIME, DETAIL OF BOOK PAGE (SHELLS), 11” X 9” EACH, 2021
LEAH SMALL, 3RD YEAR, PURPOSE HIDDEN IN TIME, DETAIL OF INTERLEAF PAGES (RELIEF AND CUT PAPER), 2021
2000 LEVEL PRINT MEDIA
ANDREW ATANASOFF, 2ND YEAR, RECLAIM, FOLIO OF PRINTS (SELECTION OF PAGES): DRIED GRASS/PAPER/INK/GLASS/JEAN PAPER/SCANNER/RECYCLING/THREAD, 11” X 8½", 2020 - This folio shows how recycled objects or garbage can be reused and repurposed to create something new. Each of the images were created by using garbage and ink on the bed of a scanner.
ANDREW ATANASOFF, 2ND YEAR, RECLAIM, FOLIO OF PRINTS - The cover and colophon page are screenprinted on paper I made from old jeans and the pull on the folio is made from beads that I made from broken recycled glass. The folio cover was made of dried grass I collected and sewed together.
ANDREW ATANASOFF, 2ND YEAR, SQUEAK, OBJECT PRINTING, STENCIL AND INK ON PAPER, 30" X 22", 2020 - This piece was created using stamping of a real mouse carcass and a blown tire that I found on the side of the road. Homemade ink made of turmeric was also used.
ANDREW ATANASOFF, 2ND YEAR, UNTITLED, STAMPED INK ON PAPER, GRID: 23” X 31”, 2020 - This piece is representational of body, not necessarily in the subject matter but in the way it was created. When I think of body, I think of many different things coming together as a whole to create something unified.
SOMAYEH NASIRI, 1ST YEAR, SENSATIONAL, INDIA INK STAMPING ON PAPER, 18” X 24”, 2020 - Exploring markmaking to trace a physical gesture: the fabric has given life to an invisible body.
SOMAYEH NASIRI, 1ST YEAR, INTERTWINED, INDIA INK STAMPING ON TRACING PAPER, 18” X 24”, 2020 - Exploring markmaking to emphasise a body image: Stamping different shapes and sizes of foam and tree bark pieces.
SOMAYEH NASIRI, 1ST YEAR, LIFE OF A SEED, FOLIO OF 9 PRINTS, 8.5” X 11”, 2020 - NARRATING A STORY THROUGH SCANNING OBJECTS.
ANNA SADIKOV, 2ND YEAR, FROTTAGE OF TWO FLOWER LILIES FACING EACH OTHER, COMPRESSED CHARCOAL AND RED BALLPOINT PEN ON PAPER, 2020
DENA SALAMI, 1ST YEAR, PARENTS LETTERS, CRAYON RUBBINGS AND ALUMINUM FOIL ON PAPER, 18” X 24”, 2020
DENA SALAMI, 1ST YEAR, PARENTS LETTERS, DETAIL
TARANPREET TAKHAR, 2ND YEAR, PORTRAIT OF MY LATE GRANDMOTHER, STAMPED PENCIL ERASER ON PAPER, 22” X 16”, 2020
SHIRIN TOUSI, 2ND YEAR, FOREST AT NIGHT, ACRYLIC OBJECT PRINTING AND INK ON PAPER, 16” X 25”, 2020
SHIRIN TOUSI, 2ND YEAR, IMAGINE YOUR HOME, ARTIST BOOK: PRINTED WITH UV INK ON PAPER (FROM SCANNED GEL PLATE PRINTS), 4.5” X 6”, 2020
SHIRIN TOUSI, 2ND YEAR, WE CARRY ON, DETAIL OF PAGE FROM: IMAGINE YOUR HOME, ARTIST BOOK, 4.5” X 6”, 2020