Featured Artists:

Nate Cubeta
Elise Forer
Tara Zanzig

Dates:

June 12 – July 12, 2014

Location:

The Printshop @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday, June 28, 4:30-8:30pm

Press Release:

The inaugural artist’s of Spudnik’s Studio Fellowship Program are Nate Cubeta, Elise Forer, and Tara Zanzig, co-ordinated by Vanessa Delamorte.

“As pioneers of the program, we adopted PROOF as the theme for our concluding exhibition. PROOF references a printer’s prototype, a document of a step taken, and a collection of evidence. The exhibit will feature select individual works culminating through the fellowship and a collaborative installation of process and studio ephemera.”

Join the fellows to celebrate their work and get a taste of their process through live printing workshops and demos lead by Nate, Elise and Tara.

Artist Bios:

Tara Zanzig, under the moniker Tararchy, is a multi-disciplinary artist with an emphasis on non-traditional screen printing. Raised in South Florida, Tara moved to Chicago in 1998 to attend The School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago. She received her BFA in 2001. Post graduation, Tara immersed herself in the t-shirt printing industry for more than a decade, returning her focus to fine art in 2013.

“My work explores the concept and connection of mind-body-spirit to our existence and the natural world. It’s about an ideal state of being and our expression of this state through activities we are passionate about. The practice of yoga informs my work literally, while the concepts are symbolic and universal.”
www.tararchy.com/

Elise Forer is a printmaker and Minnesota native living and working in the Chicago area. Forer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) in Moorhead, MN in 2013. In her time at MSUM she served as Studio Intern and Teacher’s Aide under John Volk in the printmaking studio, and the resident intern at the Hannaher Studio in the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND. Forer’s work has been shown in several exhibitions, including student shows juried by Curator Lisa Elder Melander and Michael Byzewski of Aesthetic Apparatus. Forer also operates Take Aim Press and Bindery which offers stationary, prints, and handmade boxes and books.
www.eliseforer.com

Nate Cubeta is a print artist from Boston, MA he received his BFA in Printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art. His recent work comments on the sensation that role is sports in our society, with a visual focus on both the architectural and cinematic. He has interned at Spudnik in 2011 and taught a class on screen printing with photos in 2013.
http://cubetaprints.tumblr.com/

This week we have added a significant collection of artwork by Jeremy Lundquist to our online store. Lundquist was the Artist in Residence at Spudnik in the summer of 2009.

Lundquist’s work in print, drawing, installation, and cut and collaged paper examines and organizes decay, specifically, the mundane and outmoded objects of Middle America. During his time at Spudnik he utilized the subtle line work of etching and soft ground. Each state of etching was printed from the same plate and the image and text scrapped out to create a ghost image and a new print. His suite of prints resulted in a body of work questioning contemporary notions of progress and cleanliness by presenting images of loss and disillusion/ dissolution.

Our poster collection has expanded! Head on over to our online store to check out new posters celebrating an assortment of Spudnik and Chicago-area events from years past. Designed and printed by many of Spudnik’s own artists and printmakers, each poster is an example of excellent printing and graphic design. Take one home today and own a part of Spudnik’s history!

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Curator:

Elise Forer, 2014 Studio Fellow

Featured Artists:

Kellie Hames

Dates:

05/10/2014 – ???

Location:

The Printshop @ Spudnik Press

Opening Reception:

Saturday May 10, 2014
6:00-9:00pm

Press Release:

This week we have added artwork by three of our past Artists in Residence to our online store.

During his Fall 2009 Residency, Dan Falco created a suite of intaglio prints that posed scenarios for what is natural and what is not, as a result of genetic manipulation, advancement of science and technology and the modification of our environment.

Polly Yates was a Resident at Spudnik during the spring of 2012. Yates used ideas of fragmentation and collage to create images that were distorted or hidden, lending to a more abstract effect. Fragmenting an image enabled her to distort it while maintaining it`s integrity. It also allowed her to weave images into one another, giving the appearance of one image melting into the other, so that the boundaries of each is blurred, in flux.

Working in the form of block prints, drawings and monoprints, and using imagery found online, Daniel Greenberg depicted the detail and expansiveness of green forests on or with materials made from wood. Greenberg completed his Residency during the summer of 2012.

For Immediate Release:

Featuring Chip Kidd On Design

 & Pop-Up Performances Curated by 10 of Chicago’s Most Brilliant Readings Series

Saturday, June 28 from 4 – 9 pm

Programs include:

+ A conversation with the legendary book cover designer, Chip Kidd

+ Pop-up performances from some of Chicago’s most innovative reading series including Artificial Ear, Danny’s, Dollhouse, Next Objectivists, Salonathon, The Swell, Urban Sandbox, Write Club, and Young Chicago Authors.

+ Hands-on printmaking and artmaking demonstrations with local printmakers and artists, including Leah Mackin

+ Beer Garden curated by Maria’s Package Goods

You may have seen artwork by two of our Resident Artists, Sanya Glisic and Nudd & Onsmith, in the store before; however, now their collections have grown!

Nudd and Onsmith are a collaborative printmaking team that completed their residency in the Spring of 2009. They found great success combining their individual illustration styles into a various sets of screenprints. During their residency, three separate suites of prints melded these two artists’ signature styles into a cartoonish netherworld of darkly comic doom.

During her Fall 2010 Residency, Sanya created a series of screenprints to illustrate Struwwelpeter, a German set of children’s tales. Her illustrations are available both as a bound book or as individual prints.

All of these and more are available in our online store, which we will continue to update in the coming weeks.

Each session, we offer our core printmaking classes to share the wonder of screenprinting, letterpress, etc. But we also offer special topics classes lead by artists and designers in our community. Would you like to share your area of expertise?!

Proposals for Fall 2014 Community Workshops and Special Topics Classes are due Sunday, April 29 at midnight.

For all the details please download our Call for 2014 Class Proposals.
To apply, download and return our 2014 Class Proposal Form and our 2014 Class Supply Request. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.

This week the online store expanded its collection of work by Dawn Gettler. Gettler was our Artist in Residence in the Spring of 2011 and used her residency to examine the sustainability of mundane daily actions. Saying “thank you”, replying “you’re welcome” are actions we take because we have been conditioned to. Gettler questions our ability to live with this compliance in social relationships and the sugar-coated and contrived dialogs that are expressed. She wonders at her own ability to be compliant, at the control compliance exerts over her understanding of ideals.

Our collection of Gettler’s art consists of etched text-based work and a series of delicate woodcuts. Check back next week as we expand the collections of two more of our resident artists!

This week we are excited to add our collection of artist books to the online store. Each book was created to accompany an exhibition of art displayed in Spudnik’s gallery space, The Annex. They contain prints, sketches, and words in an artistically hand-bound format. Each book provides you with a glimpse into the work of each artist while allowing you to view their art in a well-presented and compact form.

The artists you can explore through their exhibition books are as follows:

Daniel Luedtke

Hannah Ireland

Veronica Siehl

Charlie Megna

Daniel Mellis

Spudnik Press Cooperative is thrilled to announce yet one more opportunity for emerging artists to gain access to Spudnik while building their professional portfolio! Over the winter, we welcomed our first batch of studio fellows, Nate Cubeta, Elise Forer, and Tara Zanzig. They did an astounding job monitoring our open studio sessions, making beautiful prints, and curating some pretty great exhibitions (including Good Vibrations, Tenebris, with a reception on Friday April 18, and two more forthcoming).

What is a Studio Fellow? Fellows act as Studio Monitor for one Open Studio session per week, as well as curate one exhibition in The Printshop during their fellowship period. Fellows will also take on leadership roles at special events, member meetings, and outreach efforts. Fellows will meet regularly to share artwork and support each others projects. The program creates accountability for each fellow as they set personal goals, create healthy studio habits, and develop their portfolio, and culminates in an exhibition in the Printshop, featuring new work by each fellow.

Ready to apply? Download our Call for Studio Fellowships 2014 and our Studio Fellow Proposal 2014 and return to veronica@spudnikpress.org.

Important Dates:

Deadline to Apply: May 1, 2014
Required Fellowship Orientation: Thursday, May 22, 6-9pm
Required Monitor Training: Friday, May 23, 12-5pm
Fellowship Begins: June 1, 2014
Fellowship Ends: November 30, 2014