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Bedrock Art Editions

Lithography, Woodcut, Monotype

Permanent Collections hosting Bedrock works

Hallmark Art Collection, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Ulrich Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, and the Spencer Museum of Art

 

Recent Works

Loose Truths Series, 2019

(To be released May 21st, 2019.)
Bedrock welcomes Amy Feldman in the creation of a portfolio of seven lithographs titled “Loose Truths.” From neutral grounds to fluid and punchy figures, Feldman’s bare bones approach presents a powerful conversation of form and color. In her first lithographic series, the artist delivers her signature gray-on-gray abstract sign system with remarkable advance. Typical of Feldman’s hand, each resulting lithograph comes alive with personality, humor, presence, and stark elegance.

Chain Reaction Series, 2018

The “Chain Reaction” Series, Wendell Gladstone’s first project with Bedrock, is a variable edition of nine embossments treated with custom-colored, pearlescent powder. A gorgeous dance of image, color, ingenuity, and hard work, “Chain Reaction” evokes feminine strength and liberty from the central figure’s personal prison. Though Gladstone’s image is referential to his canvases, the embossed treatment he created in collaboration with master printer Aaron Shipps results in a series of distinct, sumptuously rendered prints: a triumphant contribution to Gladstone’s body of work.

Scanner Monotypes, 2018

“Exploring technologies we as humans use to communicate, scanners in particular have a symbolic parallel with the print mediums, as both use surfaces to transmit and transfer data. This being the case, both monotypes were initiated using Bedrock’s lithographic press to drag, press, and pull printing ink across the paper without the use of stone or lithographic plate. This technique, used in the creation of the background of each piece, brings to life a luminous backdrop which is rich, dimensional, and very tactile, each one to be anchored by the geometrical body of the scanner itself. The bodies of each scanners were printed with the more exacting transfer of ink to paper from a lithographic plate overprinted several times, building up increasingly thick layers of ink…”

Current Collaborations

Neal Ambrose-Smith

Bedrock is proud to welcome contemporary Native American artist Neal Ambrose Smith in the creation of a new lithograph, full of humor, wit, and vibrance. Neal Ambrose-Smith, descendent of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana, is a contemporary Native American painter, sculptor, printmaker, and Professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work is included in the collections of many national and international museums and institutions, including the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Galerie Municipale d’Art Contemporain in Chamalières, France, and Hongik University in Seoul, Korea. He received his BA from the University of Northern Colorado and MFA from the University of New Mexico.

Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

Bedrock Welcomes the iconic Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith in the creation of an ambitious seven foot vertical diptych lithograph. Created in the Bedrock Studio and in progress, this project proves to evolve one of Jaune’s tricker figures to lifelike presence and present political relevance.
A Native American of French-Cree, Shoshone, and Salish blood, New Mexican artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith creates paintings and drawings that reflect her upbringing in a household where art and horses were equally important. In the initial stages of her career, Smith’s painted landscapes inevitably contained a “portrait” of her horse Cheyenne shown with tepees, tools, pottery, and other Indian artifacts. Eventually Smith began to incorporate collage elements into her paintings, adding bits of calico and muslin fabric and wire mesh over which she lavished paint. The result was surfaces that acquired a texture and topography reminiscent of the landscapes she was depicting. Smith is part of the new generation of Native American artists who are helping to redefine their culture’s relationship to contemporary American life and its problematic past. She lives and works in Albuquerque, in close proximity to the land that inspires much of her art.

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Bedrock Art Editions is a professional collaborative print shop, owned and operated by Aaron Shipps. While publishing new works by contemporary artists, Bedrock Art Editions also offers contract printing services to artists in the mediums of lithography, monotype, and woodcut.

Bedrock Art Editions is a professional collaborative print shop, owned and operated by Tamarind Master Printer Aaron Shipps. While publishing new works by artists on a national level, Bedrock Art Editions also offers contract printing services to artists in the mediums of lithography, monotype, and woodcut. Now accepting projects for the summer of 2016.