Contemporary Printmaking

Rachel Chapman

Rachel Chapman is a printmaker working in a variety of techniques, including color woodblock prints. The process of printmaking lends itself to variation within a body of work. She finds inspiration in the twinned lineages of fine art and commercial printmaking. This series captures the natural environment around the artist’s in Western Massachusetts. The images come from drawings based on photographs and memory.

Liz Chalfin

Mark making is intuitive, emotional and free of judgement. It can vary from large scale to tiny, intricate to loose. Liz often creates multiple printing plates that can be used singularly or in combination, printing them on papers of differing weights and colors.

Frank Curran

Frank is a painter and printmaker working in Stuyvesant, New York. He uses both processes to record simple observations as well as to embark on more complex artistic and aesthetic investigations. Paintings can inspire a print project, and printmaking can be a catalyst for a painting series.

Steven Daiber

For two decades, Steven Daiber’s artistic focus centered on Cuba. Starting in 2001 with his family, he made annual trips, spending anywhere from two weeks to a year in Havana. Working in eight different print shops alongside Cuban printmakers, Daiber developed artist book collaborations that recorded the strained politics between the U. S. and Cuba and the toll it took on individual Cubans.

Daiber now returns to themes of environmental issues explored before his time in Cuba with renewed interest in the stories he finds within his personal landscape. Living in rural Massachusetts for over three decades has presented a broad canvas to engage with a changing landscape. Working outdoors utilizing found materials as the matrix, have profoundly influenced his work. These images serve as talismans of the land, formed through years of observation, collecting, imprinting, and collaging.

Holly Hughes

For a number of years Holly’s work has investigated and been inspired by codes for nature as seen in historical decorative arts traditions of wide ranging cultures – particularly ceramics and tile, textiles, metal work, inlay, carpet and architectural relief detail. Employing this inside the arena of printmaking has fed and inspired her painting practice. Printmaking is an inexhaustible and playful experimental laboratory for artists.

Renee Iacone

Renee Iacone works in a variety of media, including ceramics sculpture as well as printmaking. Some of Renee’s most recent printmaking references her work in ceramics sculpture. For example, the prints “Flame Shadow” and “Spike Flames” explore the theme of her clay Spikes and Stacks series.

She holds a BFA from Hunter College, and has exhibited her work nationally as well as throughout the Northeast. She runs the printmaking studio HandShake Press in Ghent, NY, with fellow artist Holly Hughes.

Erin Lobb Mason

Erin Lobb Mason is an artist and musician from Louisville, Kentucky, currently based in upstate New York. She works and teaches in a variety of media including printmaking, watercolor and oil paint, and ceramics. Her work is grounded in a strong sense of place and draws inspiration from the natural world, exploring themes of grief, sensuality, and queerness.

Erin’s paintings and prints have been featured in galleries throughout the northeast including New Era Gallery, AS220, Portsmouth Arts Guild, Pawtucket Arts Guild, Kendal Gallery, and The Collaborative. She works closely with local farming and land trust organizations to bring the joy of being outdoors to her community through compelling images. Though her current art practice includes everything from scientific illustration to portraits, her passion lies in the collaborative and democratic process of printmaking.

Anne Schaefer

Anne Schaefer’s work comprises painting, print and large-scale installation in which color and pattern are paramount to creating optically challenging and perceptually immersive experiences for the viewer. She employs painting, screen-printing and digitally printed surface treatments interchangeably, mining meaning from the tactile act of making.

Anne’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Washington University and a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Schaefer is a former print fellow at the Fabric Workshop and Museum. She has been a member of a number of artist collectives such as Vox Populi as well as Tiger Strikes Asteroid, where she served as director from 2011-2013. She lives and works in upstate New York.

Amy Silberkleit

Amy Silberkleit draws detailed landscapes on limestone blocks and hand-prints limited editions in her lithography studio in Gilboa in the Northern Catskills. The tonal range made possible by the lithography stone’s fine texture lends itself perfectly to her highly detailed representational drawings.

Amy has a B.A. in printmaking and a Certificate in Natural Science Art and Illustration from the New York Botanical Gardens. Her drawings and prints have been exhibited in juried shows, galleries and museums, including the Arkell Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery Store and the Albany Institute, which has two of her pieces in its permanent collection. Her awards include the John Noble Lithography Award from SAGA; the Woodstock Artist Association and Museum Annual Print Edition and Sheila Bloodgood awards; the Deborah Geurtze Award for Printmaking, Cooperstown Art Association.