Browne Goodwin

Board of Directors

Browne Goodwin began collecting art in the 1970s, and has been a champion of emerging artists across the country, specifically in Texas, LA, and Chicago.

JJ McLuckie

JJ McLuckie is a Chicago-based illustrator, cartoonist,  muralist, and Creative Director for Manifest Urban Arts Festival.

Through highly calculated layouts and improvised content based on emotion, he aims to create an experience in each piece that alters depending on one’s point in their life at that moment. The subjects of his work often embrace an abstract or surrealistic quality that floats between child-like innocence and manic obsession, often creating opposing responses of humour and discomfort.

JJ creates in hope of projecting the feelings of excitement and unpredictability that he experiences while drawing onto both people that may have never drawn since grade school and those who do every day.

Services Offered:

  • Graphic Design
  • Illustration

Website:

www.jjmcluckie.com/

Amber Huff

Amber is a Chicago-based graphic designer and illustrator. She has a BFA from Boston University and recently graduated with an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her love for storytelling has recently taken the form of comics, writing, and sculpture.

Website:

www.berhuff.com/

Residency Period:

Sep 2017–Dec 2017

Project Statement:

For my Spudnik Press 2017 Residency, I will create a body of work that combines writing and graphic design with comics, printmaking, and sculpture. This project is largely an extension of works that I began to explore for my MFA Show at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I recently graduated with an MFA in Visual Communication Design. Called Little Tomorrow, my exhibition featured self-contained kits and vignettes that consisted of print-based narrative with video and ceramics. Little Tomorrow featured a strange genesis story of conquest and conflict between creatures of land and sea, a comic about loneliness, and poems about curiosity. This project will work within this universe but with newly generated sculpture, imagery, and writing made during the three-month residency period.

The project I propose will be a small (3-5) edition box kit. Consisting of:

(1) Mini-comic/zine(s)

(2) Fold-out print

(3) Ceramics

(4) Large prints, to be displayed on wall

A lot of research and inspiration will be involved, including ethnopoetics, mythology, totems, icons, board games, package design, elements of ritual, and memory. I am well into this process already, so this will not be a large part of my time at Spudnik. The initial third of the residency will be dedicated to generating written content and illustration, thumbnails/storyboards, sketching, and print experiments & exploration. The remaining time will be dedicated to the production of prints and box kits. Non- print material, such as the ceramics that will accompany each narrative, will be created out-of-studio.

In my two years at SAIC I did a little bit of screen printing, but focused more heavily on offset and risograph printing for larger editions of work for events like Chicago Zine Fest and Chicago Alternative Comics Expo. While I will continue to produce work in this way, at Spudnik I am most eager for the chance to return to more traditional forms of printmaking and bookmaking to create editions that are smaller and more precious.

Jonathan Herrera Soto

Jonathan Herrera is a print-based studio artist and teacher from Chicago, IL. He has recently graduated and holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College in Art and Design. Through his studio practice and teaching philosophy, Herrera engages multiple facets of place-making and thinking in order to express ideas through concept building, process, and materials. He constantly works to create accessibility in both art and education by connecting his studio work, public work, and community engagement. Herrera has recently exhibited work at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN), and Concordia Gallery (St. Paul, MN).

Website:

www.jonathanherrerastudio.com

Residency Period:

Sep 2017–Dec 2017

Project Statement:

As a recent college graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, I am excited to apply for this opportunity and make work rooted in my hometown during the duration of the residency. I graduated this past May with a BFA in printmaking and have a technical background in working with silkscreen, lithography, photolithography, relief, and monotype processes. During the Spudnik Residency opportunity I aim to produce a print based series surrounding issues of bodily disappearance and loss of identity. Through a socio-political lens, I investigate the spaces left behind by bodies to reveal lived experiences, memory, and trauma. The ritual that is preparing a matrix to produce a trace or impression, allows for the process itself to propagate a ceremonial quality—for example, the slicing into wood or the pouring of acid onto soft lithostone echoes and re-animates acts of violence that carries through an art-object’s final presentation.

My most recent work has progressively developed away from traditional means of printmaking. During my last year in college I began experimenting with printing directly on floors and walls with unconventional materials like mud mixtures made with clay, water, and ink. My work has also recently been very formal and direct by using portraits and slogans to convey a certain message. I would like to take some time and explore other, more abstract and quiet, formal methods to tell a story. The character of someone can be captured in different ways outside of using their portrait. In making this new series I aim to construct abstract images by printing multiple layers on fabric to make flag-like objects. I’d like to spend a long duration of time with one object and expect each print to have at least 100 light layers of people, places, and things that relate to my subject matter. I hope to spend each month constructing two “flags” to have a total of six objects to exhibit at the end of the residency. At this point in time I plan on these objects being large, at least 100” in length.

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Marco Giampaolo

A native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design, I have been freelancing motion and graphics and compositing in New York, NY for over 10 years. My career has allowed me to use my talents with top studios and agencies such as Shilo, The Mill, Superfad, CHRLX, Stardust, Gretel as well as working on campaigns for Nike, Netflix, HBO, Cartoon Network, and Samsung.

Born in the suburbs of Philadelphia and a graduate of The Savannah College of Art and design, I left New York City in early 2015 to move to Chicago to explore and experience everything the windy city has to offer.

Website:

www.hellomarcog.com/about/
  • Photo of Hellen Colman with a nipping press

Hellen Colman

Hellen Colman is a Chicago-based photographer primary working on artists’ books. Her work spans several media striving to construct alternative languages depicting multiple realities that are not parallel or alternative worlds but surrogates for an unattainable truth.

She is also a mathematician. Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, she received her PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Furthermore, Hellen holds a Certificate in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she also received her photography and printmaking training.

Her work in mathematics has been published in several scientific journals and her artists’ books were acquired by several private and public collections and institutions, including the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at SAIC.

Website:

www.hellencolman.com/