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Bedrock Art Editions

Lithography, Woodcut, Monotype

Recent Works

Seven Shredder Monotypes

This grouping of seven shredder monotypes was made in context of an analogous relationship between the mechanics of a paper shredder, and that of a lithographic press. The results are surprisingly rich, enabling random data to be distorted in the creation of these new works, and the concept they are founded on…

Inserting paper into a paper shredder initiates the motor to shred, via sensors that tell when to begin shredding and when to cease shredding. This action of shredding I discovered analogous to the action of the lithographic press at the Bedrock Art Editions studio, in that this press uses magnets that pinpoint where to start and end the motion of the press bed, functioning in a similar manner to the start and stop sensors of a paper shredder. Adding my data to paper in varying colors and sizes of ink dabs, which were then run through the press thereby squashed, pressed and dragged and/or pushed by the scraper barsi, according to where I had placed the magnets on the press bed, made the major part of the mark making of these pieces.

Ouroboros Shredder

In my experience, great creations speak for themselves, and speak also, to their predecessors. Such were my aspirations as Andrzej Zielinski and I began our dialog about what to do for his upcoming lithograph.

The evening Andrzej Zielinski and I met to discuss concepts for this print, the studio felt small, as if trying to contain the many ideas Andrzej brought to the table. Ideas were leveraged, but we narrowed them down to a folded print, structurally similar to a few steel sculptures Andrzej was working on at the time.

The concept was electrifying and frightening, and a bit abstract, in that Andrzej’s concept differed from any other folded print I’d seen or read about. Which is something that will clarify itself as you read on…

Two Things Happening At The Same Time

During the first visit I took to Rashawn Griffin’s studio, as we stood in front of a wall covered in his work, he gave me this warning: “What I do looks like it was done quickly, but I labor over these. Most pieces take a long time to finish.”

It’s true. Rashawn’s art does have a fluid, easy going nature to it. Nowhere does this become more apparent than in Two Things Happening At The Same Time, Griffin’s first lithograph, where an unexpected world of composition, interplay of shapes, textures, and color compositions comes alive.

Upcoming Artist Publications:

Asad Faulwell

Asad Faulwell is a Southern California based artist who received his BA from UCSB in 2005 and his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2008. He was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant while at CGU in 2008. His shows have been written about in ArtForum, The New York Times and Harper’s Bazaar Art among others. In 2016 his first monograph entitled “Asad Faulwell: Les Femmes d’Alger” was published by Zero+ Publishing.

Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

Born in a small town on the Flathead Reservation on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Indian Reservation, Montana, Jaune Quick–to–See Smith is an internationally renowned painter, printmaker and artist

Smith has been creating complicated abstract paintings and litographs since the 1970s, employing a wide variety of media, working in painting, printmaking and richly textured mixed media pieces. Smith is known internationally for her philosophically centered work regarding her strong traditional beliefs and political activism.

Larassa Kabel

Larassa Kabel was born in 1970 and received her BFA with honors from Iowa State University in 1992. She has worked as an artist assistant, birth photographer, and an art educator as well as co-founding Chicken Tractor, an artist-centric nonprofit dedicated to increasing the level of professional art practice through education, exhibition and workshops. Her […]

Zigmunds Priede

A native Latvian, after graduating from the University of California, Berkley, Zigmunds was hired on as a master printer for Universal Limited Art Editions, where he collaborated and printed for the likes of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Barnett Newman. After his time at ULAE, Zig went on to teach for 12 years at the University of Minnesota, then later moved to Kansas where he taught painting and drawing at Johnson County Community College. Zigmunds is now retired, spending his time in the studio.

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.