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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, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

 

Recent Works

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…”

Djamila, 2018

“Djamila,” Asad Faulwell’s first lithograph, depicts Djamila Bouhired, one of the female combatants who took part in The Battle of Algiers. Djamila, like her comrades, carried out attacks against the colonial French population in Algiers. This piece attempts to show how these women were both aggressors and victims, victimized both by their French adversaries and ostracized by Algerian society. The image was rendered using traditional lithographic techniques taken to an extreme fruition, afterwards finished with hand applied embellishments.

The Magical City Series

The Magical City series, a vibrant array of woodcuts printed on wood veneer, is based on recurring dreams that arrive in the mind of Zigmunds Priede. Each magical city is a composite of many different locations in the world, arriving just at the distance of the artist’s imagination, in between his native Latvia and the United States. As is the case for many who find themselves living abroad from their native lands, home is no longer the place that has been left behind, nor is it the place one now lives. For Zigmunds, this beautiful series of work is his attempt to deal with these notions of home, using cities as an emotive expression, rendered in many different color relationships.

Current Collaborations

Wendell Gladstone

Based in Los Angeles, Gladstone produces figurative paintings that evoke dream-like spaces, free from logic that pertains to traditional representation. He uses allegory and metaphor to examine a wide swath of cultural references from contemporary politics, art history, and personal experience, allowing psychological mood to govern the narratives over concrete reality. With a bright, often candy-colored palette layered with transparent mediums that subtly reveal the forms beneath, his works immediately seduce the viewer and only later reveal psychologically charged subtexts.

Amy Feldman

Deceptively simple, Amy Feldman’s large acrylic paintings feature loosely geometric motifs set against areas of bare canvas. New York Times critic Roberta Smith once noted “a kind of back-to-basics abstraction characterized by simple forms, not much color and an emphasis on process.” In letting the paint drip where it will, Feldman seeks to retain the casualness of her preliminary sketches, often based on her surroundings, yet she also strives for poise. “I think, the unfinished (or seemingly unfinished) quality in my work feels like it is in a dialogue with the landscape … the forms are carefully articulated yet under-polished,” she explains.

Alexandre Arrechea

Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea, co-founder of the artists collective “Los Carpinteros,” interdisciplinary work reveals a profound interest in the exploration of both public and domestic spaces. His earlier works explore common themes of surveillance in contemporary society, the loss of privacy, and sources of power, though more recent works deal with contemporary social and economic issues like the stock market and migrants in Latin America. His experiential installations like The Garden of Mistrust (2003-5) and Perpetual Free Entrance (2006) in particular deal with issues of accessibility and the qualities of public and private space. His practice includes installation, painting, and the use of what he considers are objects with “elements of truth.”

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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.