Exhibition 2009: Steamroller Prints
Each year in partnership with the Salt Lake City Main Library, the Utah Arts Festival features the work of an artist with an artist reception and exhibit during the month of June.
Featuring Saltgrass Printmakers
June 6 – July 18
In a celebration of LARGE relief prints, Saltgrass Printmakers will present a show of woodcut prints at the Library’s 4th Floor Gallery that were created using a Steamroller. The woodcut prints started in a very traditional way: the artists carved images into wood, then applied ink to the raised surfaces for printing -- however, they were printed in a distinctly non-traditional, and indelicate way: using a steamroller. The large woodcuts were inked up outside on a hot August day in 2008, paper was laid carefully over the inked wood, and covered with protective blankets. The artist then drove over the inked woodcuts with a 1.3 ton steamroller. The pressure from the steamroller transferred the image to the paper.
The fi nished prints and some of the large boards that were used as the woodcut
matrices will be on display at the Saltgrass gallery.
Participating Artists
Paul Vincent Bernard
Erik and Sandy Brunvand
Stefanie Dykes
Tyler and Emaline Huntzinger
Chris and Carter Lippard
Catherine Mataisz
Deborah McDermott
Maura Naughton
Lisa Nichols
Jared Nielson
Tia Sheppard
Patrick Smith
Shawn Young
Saltgrass Printmakers
2126 S 1000 E
Salt Lake City UT 84106
Phone: 801-467-1080
Website: www.saltgrassprintmakers.org
Artist Reception
Please join us for a public reception for the artists at the Library’s 4th Floor Gallery on Thursday, June 25, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
STEAMROLLER PRINTING DEMONSTRATION
Saltgrass Printmakers will demonstrate relief printing including Steamroller Printing at the Festival. In addition to demos in our booth, twice a day (at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.), we'll fire up the steamroller to make some BIG woodcut prints on 200 East.
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