Portrait Session

COPY JAM!

This 8.5" x 11" painting/collage on paper, "Chester Carlson, Inventor of Xerography", is my contribution to PRINTERESTING's upcoming event, COPY JAM!

On Thursday March 25, PRINTERESTING will host a reception at Philadelphia's Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. This event will coincide with Mark Remarque, the 2010 conference of SGC International, and the city-wide festival Philagrafika 2010.



"COPY JAM!" will be an interactive print event. During the party, fifty works by fifty artists will be displayed in a grid on the wall. Upon arrival, each guest will be handed a complimentary ticket that can be exchanged for one black & white photocopy of any work the guest chooses. There will be no sales; one ticket equals one copy. Copies will be made LIVE in the gallery for one night only!



I tried to make something on paper that would truly be a printing plate for the xerox machine - a piece that was only artwork when it had turned into a contrasty, black and white xerox. And I also wanted to use materials that seemed very inappropriate to the task at hand - a nice chunky painterly collage. The subject matter is a celebration of innovators and thinkers who made xerographic art possible.

So, March 25th, Philadelphia, be there and get a print. It's an open edition, you make the art when you press "print".

Self-portrait

Self-portrait
disposable camera, 2008

My two year old daughter continues her work in photography, adding this dramatic self-portrait to her portfolio.

Apparently she is concentrating on portraiture, as her first image made with the disposable camera was this unsentimental rendition of her dad.

Her work in crayon, marker, and installation art (tending towards "scatter pieces") continues with gusto.

d. a. levy

Making the Jim Lowell linocut for Bottle of Smoke Press got me thinking that it was about time that I did a portrait of d. a. levy. So, here it is!