Jessica Taylor Caponigro received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and before that she attended Bryn Mawr College where she earned her BA in the History of Art. Jessica runs a small handmade bag and accessory company, Fiori Falsi, where she prints the majority of the fabric. She has taught Printmaking classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Appreciation classes at Olive Harvey College. She currently teaches Printmaking for Educators, a non toxic class, at Harold Washington College. Jessica has been an instructor at Spudnik Press since 2011.
Website:
www.jessicacaponigro.com/
Residency Period:
Jun 2010–Aug 2010
Project Statement:
Taylor Caponigro examines the psychological affects of seemingly faux luxury materials and artificial domestic items. she is interested in the dichotomy of synthetic materials and their ability to maintain beauty while inherently retaining a sense of their own failure. Taylor brings into focus the indistinct space between the intention of ideals represented by authentic goods and the misguided interpretation of their synthetic counterparts. Taylor finds printmaking’s inherent ability to create multiples, makes prints very accessible and directly relates to the affordable faux goods.
During Taylor’s residency at Spudnik she explored issues surrounding pattern, repetition, and reproduction. Taylor printed a subtly complex edition of etchings; wallpaper patterns inspired by class differences in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1874).
Press/Reviews:
MDW Fair Fall Showcase , October, 2011
Classes by this Artist:
Screenprinting on Fabric
Falco received his MFA in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University in 2006, and has since been teaching art at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg. He has most recently had solo shows at Art and Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Lee E Dulgar Gallery in South Holland, Illinois, and Morton College, Cicero.
Residency Period:
Sep 2009–Nov 2009
Project Statement:
Dan Falco is interested in physical and psychological changes that occur in humans and animals and questions whether these changes are natural or unnatural. Through his work, Falco records his observations of everyday life and attempt to comprehend how we may be affected by the choices we make. Falco addresses issues of hybridization, mutation, and modification, popular culture.
While at Spudnik, Falco created a suite of intaglio prints that posed senarios 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.
Paul Nudd was born in Harpenden, England in 1976. He graduated in 2001 with an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Recent exhibitions include: Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, Western Exhibitions, Chicago and the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Website:
westernexhibitions.com/artist/paul-nudd/
Residency Period:
Mar 2009–May 2009
Project Statement:
Paul Nudd and Onsmith are a collaborative printing team. Nudd and Onsmith each have developed individual styles of illustration that are engaging in their own right. When the two join forces, a dialog is created between the opposing styles and imagery, and the art takes a turn towards the witty, surprising, and refreshing. It is clear that the two artists are being pushed an pulled in ways that can only strengthen their own artistic abilities.
During their residency, three separate suites of prints melded these two artists’ signature styles into a cartoonish netherworld of darkly comic doom. These prints resulted in mushy quadruple-stacked heads that form menacing totem poles.
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Stan Shellabarger’s performance and book work addresses issues relating to the body. He often takes mundane, everyday activities like breathing, walking and writing to extreme measures in endurance-based performance work: walking from sunrise to sunset on solstices and equinoxes, counting every breath he takes in an 8 hour time span, filling notebook after notebook with his signature.
Shellabarger’s work amplifies the traces humans leave on the earth, as in his walking performances, or on objects, as in his Lightswitch and Mousepad books. The repetitive nature and long durations of Shellabarger’s performances lead to massive accumulations of marks and residues that record discrete units of time and space, elegant testimonies to the ephemeral and transient nature of life. The repetition of activity is necessary so that the extremely subtle marks left by these activities emerge as clearly visible artistic interventions. Despite their laborious process of transcription, the marks left by his performances are, like the body itself, ephemeral and transient in nature.
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Website:
westernexhibitions.com/artist/stan-shellabarger/
Residency Period:
Sep 2008–Nov 2008
Project Statement:
Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger’s first collaborative show occurred at Western Exhibitions in the Spring of 2007 and was reviewed in TimeOut Chicago and the Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago-based couple has been creating collaborative works since they starting dating years ago, this work creates a distinct body of work separate from their individual studio practices.
Miller’s personal work is often paintings or collages with themes of hardcore gay, hyper masculine, body-centric images, rather than focusing on partnerships and domestic.
In his solo career, Shellabarger is best known for his performance work, which reflects on the universal actions of man, such as breathing and movement repeated to test the limits of his endurance.
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Aaron Smith graduated from The School of the Art Institute in May 2011 with a BFA. Printmaking and photography are his main areas of focus. Obsessive layering and the commonality between opposites are re-occurring themes of his offset prints.
Classes by this Artist:
Subsidized Offset Apprenticeship
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David works all the time and is never home—
much to the dismay of his family members.
While on the road, he serves as principal of another studio, an agency where branding & strategy is the name of the game. When he does inevitably cross the threshold, the air fills with laughter, talk of old-school modernist designers, and tales of the days when he tanned on the lawn of a certain East Coast art school.
Website:
www.davidsieren.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Design as Process; Design as Craft
Type Design 101 with David Sieren
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Heather R. Buechler is an interdisciplinary artist currently based out of Chicago. Since receiving her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007, she founded Polka! Press, a community printshop in Madison, WI, where she also taught a series of workshops and classes. Currently, she is pursuing her M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago where she teaches letterpress and works as a Print Production Fellow for the Journal of Artist’s Books. Using prints, drawings, and sculptural objects, her work examines the history of agriculture and industry, and its relationship to current ecological and social concerns of rural midwestern America.
Website:
www.hrbuechler.com, www.oxbloodpress.com
Classes by this Artist:
Stratography: Letterpress Monoprinting
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Kaitlin Kostus (b. 1984) is an artist and self-publisher from Chicago, IL. She received her BFA in Painting from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2006, and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Art at Columbia College Chicago in 2012. Her work has been shown previously at ARC Gallery Chicago, Woman Made Gallery, and at the 1st Printmaking Triennial of ULUS in Belgrade, Serbia. Her publications are featured in the libraries of the University of Chicago, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, St. Ambrose University, The Marguerite Duras Public Library in Paris, as well as on the Chicago Publishes blog.
Website:
kaitlinkostus.com/
Classes by this Artist:
Block Printing on Fabric
Carrie Lingscheit’s original intaglio prints exploit the subtleties of etching and mezzotint technique to explore human behavior and the malleable nature of memory formation and recall, creating dubious narratives characterized by omission, distortion, and hyperbole. Her work has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions and in dozens of invitational exchange portfolios. Recent exhibitions include The 2nd International Mezzotint Festival in Ekaterinburg, Russia; and Fusion – International Contemporary Intaglio Print Exhibition in Guanlan, China. Lingscheit holds a BFA from The University of South Dakota (2006) and MFA from Ohio University (2010.) She currently lives in Chicago, IL.
Services Offered:
- Printmaking Commissions
- Exhibition Opportunities
Website:
carrielingscheit.com/home.html
Classes by this Artist:
Mock Mezzotint: Reductive Drypoint on Copper
Etching Explorations
Intaglio Printmaking: Multi-level (WI2015)
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle is an artist and educator who recently moved to Chicago from Mumbai, India where she was a 2012-13 Fulbright Fellow. Skillin-Brauchle’s multidisciplinary studio practice spans printmaking, bookmaking, installation, performance, and social practice. Her work has been shown at venues including Future Tenant in Pittsburgh, PA; JDK Gallery in Burlington, VT; the Rotunda Gallery in Bangkok, Thailand; ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus, OH, and most recently at the Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, India. Skillin-Brauchle earned a BA from Beloit College (2006) and her MFA in Printmaking from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (2012).
Website:
www.caylaskillin-brauchle.com/
