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.
