BFAPF VP Ann Shafer talks with Katherine Brimberry, Flatbed Press.
Flatbed Press is the publishing arm for Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Austin, Texas. Established in 1989, Flatbed Press is dedicated to creating and promoting the art and craft of the original print, and to inform and broaden the audience for it. Over the past 32 years Flatbed has collaborated with over three hundred artists and has a deep inventory which includes work by both established and emerging nationally and internationally recognized artists including Adrian Armstrong, John Alexander, Michael Ray Charles, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Melissa Miller, Celia Muñoz, Nick&Jake, Lance Letscher, Liliana Porter, Dan Rizzie, James Sullivan and more.
Adrian Armstrong, Portrait EV 2, soft-ground etching with viscosity roll and chine collé elements. This impression is #12 of a varied edition of 16 prints, published 2021. Image 36 x 24 inches on Arches cover 300 white gsm 41 x 20 inches with mulberry monotypes collé elements.
Michael Ray Charles, For Ever Free #3: Every World Is a Head, Every Head Is a World, the third image from a livre d’artist portfolio by Michael Ray Charles which includes seven images. Lithograph, aquatint and collaged archival pigment print with penny embossment. Images and sheet size 21 x 16 inches on Fabriano Artisico hot press 300 gsm. Edition of 24, published 2019.
Lance Letscher, Therapy Bird, color soft-ground etching with burnishing and hand coloring, edition of 32, published 2021. Image 20 x 16 inches on 30 x 22 Rives BFK 250 gsm.
Lance Letscher, The Six, color drypoint with aquatint and chine collé, edition of 6, published 2020. Image 36 x 24 inches, sheet size 45 x 36”, Rives BFK 300 gsm.
Melissa Wren Miller, Recovery, lithograph on three joined panels, edition of 10, published 2021. Image and sheet size 11.5 x 68.25. Handmade green Japan Kitakata.
Melissa Miller, detail of Recovery.
Ben Muñoz, Florence, chiaroscuro woodcut, from Las Hermanas a suite of three woodcuts, edition of 22, published 2021. Image 27.75 x 19.75 inches on sheet 38 x 26 inches.
A man smiling and standing in a workshop or factory behind a large flatbed cutting machine. There is a sign that says 'FLATBED' on the wall behind him.
A woman unrolling a large pink and white sheet of paper on a table in an industrial-style workspace.
Woman installs a gold and cream-colored artwork with textured patterns on a louvers or metal surface in a workshop.
Person wearing a face shield and protective suit working with a long tool outdoors at a table.
Interior view of a printmaking studio with printing presses, artwork, and supplies, featuring a large sign reading 'FLATBED' on the wall.
Inside an art gallery with framed artwork on white walls, two chairs, and a person walking past.
An elderly man in a plaid shirt and jeans organizing papers at a long table in an art storage room, with black and white artwork on the walls and metal filing cabinets.
A person wearing glasses, a cap, a face mask, and a white shirt with a blue apron looks at colorful abstract paintings displayed on a white gallery wall.
A young man with glasses, a beard, and a backwards baseball cap, wearing a red and black plaid shirt, smiling and standing next to a pixelated portrait on a white wall.