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CHRIS PIG WORKSHOP & LECTURE Join us for these two events with British printmaker Chris Pig, presented by Atlanta Printmakers Studio and SCAD Atlanta Printmaking Department. Chris Pig will also be in an exhibit at Vinson Gallery in Decatur from Feb 1 - March 3, 2007.   "The Secret is in the Inking" Workshop Saturday, February 3, 2007 10am-4pm at Atlanta Printmakers Studio $75 APS members / $85 non-members Workshop is full Join British printmaker Chris Pig at the Atlanta Printmakers Studio for this one-day linoleum block workshop. He will demonstrate cutting a block and the use of fine V gouges. His focus will be to guide participants through the process of printing a linocut. “This may seem simplistic,” says Chris, “but there is always something to learn from other people’s methods, be you novice or master.” The award winning artist uses a system of primary, secondary and tertiary inking beds. Printing will be done by hand using traditional Japanese methods and also by using a press. He will also teach retouching techniques. Participants should bring their own linoleum block that is carved and ready to print.   "The Life of a Printmaker and his Influences" Lecture Sunday, February 4, 2007 at 7:00pm SCAD Atlanta Campus 1600 Peachtree St. NE - Printshop, Room 517 Free and open to the public. Chris will present a talk about how art history affects a practicing artist. This lecture will be of interest to those who want to know more about Chris, his artwork and his printmaking influences, but also to all artists, not just printmakers, who want to think about their own art in relation art history and their personal influences. “I am not an art historian, I am a practicing professional printmaker,” he says. “Therefore my emphasis on art history in lectures has always been about its practical application rather than its context. I like to explore the lives of the artists, their day-to-day survival, their personal relationships, their political leanings and so on. The anecdotes can be quite entertaining.”  ARTIST STATEMENT: My work now vacillates between subjects that are narrative to the point of didactic, to images that are solely devoted to form, mark making and rhythm. The former are almost biblical in their preoccupation with vices and the venal side of life. The latter serve as ciphers for stillness and meditation. ARTIST BIO: Born: 1965 in Hemel Hempstead, England Education: Hertfordshire College of Art and Design Foundation Course in Art and Design Exeter College of Art and Design BA(Hons) Art and Design 2:1 Winchester College of Art MA (Soton) European Fine Art Selected Exhibitions: 2007 IMPRESSED – group show with M.C. Escher, Anne Desmet RE & Fernando Feijoo ARE, Vinson Gallery 2005 Jealousy, a one-man-show of engravings, etchings & linocuts, Vinson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2004 Made in England – 4 British Printmakers, Vinson Gallery, Atlanta 2004 ATLart(04), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta 2001 National Print Open, Mall Galleries, London 2001 Show with Julius Breeze, Fitzroy Galleries, Melbourne, Australia 2001 Atrophy, group show, The Froge, Shoreditch, London 2000 National Print Open, Mall Galleries, London - Cumberland Paper Mills Award: printmaker of outstanding merit 2000 B&Wx3YBA, group show, Vinson Gallery, Atlanta 1999 Group Show, Start Gallery, Fulham, London 1999 National Print Open, Mall Galleries, London 1998 Group Show, Start Gallery, Fulham, London 1998 ‘Empty Bottles, Full Ashtrays’, Solo Show, Sussex Arts Club, Brighton 1998 Solo Show, The Rosemary Branch, Islington, London 1997 Group Show, Sussex Arts Club, Brighton 1996 Show with Julie Bennett, Vincent Gallery, Exeter 1995 Stoke Newington Festival, Solo Show and Group Show 1994 ‘Artists in Spain’, Stormont Studio, Rye, East Sussex 1993 Open Studios, Barcelona, Spain 1993 MA Group Show, British Institute, Barcelona 1993 MA Final Show, Winchester School of Art 1992 ‘Low Life’, Solo Show, Vincent Gallery, Exeter 1990 Show with Julie Bennett, sculptor, Harlequins Centre, Exeter 1990 Artists Against AIDS, Group Show, Hobart Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania Selected Gallery representation: Arte 21, Cordoba, Spain Stone & Press Gallery, New Orleans, USA Vincent Gallery, Exeter, England Vinson Gallery, Atlanta, USA McShane Gallery, Buckie, Bannfshire, Scotland Awards: Somerset Paper Mills Award for a print of outstanding merit The Rupert Acott Prize for figure drawing Illustrations in Publications: I Couldn’t Paint Golden Angels, autobiography by Albert Meltzer, AK Press, 1997 Despite Anything, short stories & other writings by Mark Whittaker, Ozymandias Books 2004 |