First Person: Explorations in Printmaking

Artists include:

Eileen Macdonald, head of Printmaking at CSU Chico, started treating paper in the same way that she would treat a copper etching plate during the mezzotint or etching process. Her works combine printmaking with paper cuts and pinpricked paper.

Ulrike Theusner’s etchings and monotypes depict humans “trying to control the beast, the wilderness, the natural being of animals – but they can’t”. Theusner, originally from East Berlin/Weimar, currently has a solo exhibition up at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Leipzig, Germany.

Eunkang Koh, head of Printmaking at University of Nevada, Reno, often depicts half-animal and half-human figures. These hybrid creatures represent a portrait of us as social animals and the society that we live in.

Ben Beres, professor of printmaking at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and 1/3 of the well- established collaborative trio SuttenBeresCuller, explores text and process in his hand-marbled, high-key color monotypes.

Solange Roberdeau, 2023 Mendocino Arts Champion and new adjunct faculty in printmaking at Mendocino College, includes natural phenomena to make the work – for instance by applying ink to sheets of paper and leaving them out in the rain or allowing the wind to create patterns in suminagashi prints.

Explorations also features a selection of student work from Solange Roberdeau’s Introduction to Printmaking class here at Mendocino College.