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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, 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

Amy Feldman

Bedrock welcomes Amy Feldman in the debut creation of her elegant portfolio of seven lithographs titled “Loose Truths.” From neutral grounds to fluid and punchy figures, Amy has powerfully continued her conversation between layering and form with her fist works in the medium of lithography. Speaking to her relationship with shades of grey, Feldman further explores her signature abstract sign system, speaking to systems of writing and the transmission of information, often alluding to anthropomorphic explorations. Typical of Feldman’s hand, each resulting lithograph comes alive with personality, humor, presence of form, and stark elegance.

Vincent Valdez

Vincent Valdez is most recognized for his monumental portrayal of the contemporary figure. His drawn and painted subjects remark on a universal struggle within various socio-political arenas and eras. “My aim is to incite public remembrance and to impede distorted realities that I witness, like the social amnesia that surrounds me,” states Valdez. Exhibitions and collections include Ford Foundation, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Smithsonian Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; among others.Valdez was born in 1977 in San Antonio, TX. Valdez currently lives and works in Houston.

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Welcome!

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.