One of One: Four Approaches to Monoprints
Alison Judd, The Memory of Leaves XII, silkscreen monoprint on paper
August 21 - September 24, 2021
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13FOREST Gallery is pleased to present One of One: Four Approaches to Monoprints, featuring printmaking by Alison Judd, Robert Maloney, Damion Silver and Dorothea Van Camp.
Printmaking is typically thought of as a process by which artists can create multiple images in less time than it might take to produce an individual painting. For centuries, printmaking’s reproducibility has helped make art more egalitarian. As artists have produced and disseminated larger bodies of work to larger audiences, art collecting has become more accessible to the average person. Innovation has always been vital to the development of printmaking techniques, with artists around the world devising new and ingenious ways to experiment with the form. Albrecht Dürer, working in sixteenth-century Germany, elevated public perception of printmaking as an art form with his deft and elegant woodblock prints and engravings. In the Edo period in Japan a century later, artists perfected woodblock printing with their ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world, which were remarkable for their depictions of modern life.
The four artists in One of One capture the spirit of curiosity and experimentation that has long been a part of the history of printmaking. Intentionally missing from their work, however, is the element of reproducibility. Focusing on monoprints, each of the show's artists combines materials with printmaking techniques such as silkscreen, woodblock and the manual distribution of ink with a roller into works that defy reproduction. There are no copies; they are as unique as paintings.
Monoprints allow for a freeform approach to image making, as seen in the prints of Dorothea Van Camp. Van Camp designs her silkscreens digitally as individual components that she can combine in myriad ways to create unique imagery. Alison Judd uses silkscreens as well, layering organic forms and playing with ink application to create depth in her prints. Combining sculpture and printmaking, Robert Maloney has developed a process of pouring plaster onto his woodblocks and embedding architectural elements to create hybrids that evoke urban scenery. Damion Silver works with sculpture as well, developing cyanotypes on pieces of wood that he then cuts and assembles.
The artists in One of One approach printmaking with expansive sensibilities and demonstrate yet again the rich history and endless potential of their medium.
About the Artists
Alison Judd is a Boston-based painter, printmaker and curator. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Art History from Brandeis University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. In 2019, she founded Gallery Tempo, showcasing local artists through pop-up gallery shows at available retail spaces in Greater Boston.
Robert Maloney's constructions and mixed media prints incorporate elements of the urban landscape, typography, topography and architecture. Many of his pieces straddle the line between a structure being torn down and a structure being erected. Maloney mines the vocabulary of the urban landscape to create imagery that evokes the feeling of crumbling walls, discarded billboards and old warehouse buildings. Maloney received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and is a current faculty member at the college in the Illustration Department.
Damion Silver is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans printmaking, assemblage and sculpture. Both his art and design work have been shown and published throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Silver’s latest work explores the use of form through repetition, subtraction and abstraction. The combination of media and use of space between the works creates a dynamic and unifying dialog across his body of work. Silver currently resides in New Hampshire.
Dorothea Van Camp earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design, and attended the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, for graduate studies in printmaking. She has shown her work extensively, most recently at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. Van Camp’s work is included in numerous collections, including State Street Bank, Federal Reserve Bank, Bank of America, Wellesley College and Mellon Bank.