Wood, Aluminum, Copper: Exceptional prints by Toru Sugita (current GAW member), Jenny Robinson, and David Avery (past GAW member). at the Inclusions Gallery. April 1 – May 6, 2018. Artist’s talk: April 18/ 7-8:30pm.
Faculty Lecture at Diablo Valley College in April 18 and April 19.
GAW member Melanie Dorson is showing artist’s books in the Merced County Arts Council 12th Annual California Centered Printmaking Exhibition. Exhibition runs April 10th – May 22nd.
Six GAW printmakers partake in ‘City Hues’ exhibition. The show runs from 1 August through 30 August 2017 at 491 Greenwich Street, San Francisco
The six Graphic Arts Workshop artists participating in ‘CIty Hues’ are Marcia Clay, Alice Gibbons, Eddie Lee, Leslie Lowinger, Sarah Newton, and Toru Sugita. Clay a long-time resident of the city, offers impressions of her North Beach neighborhood and its waterfront; Gibbons, a native San Franciscan, her architectural renderings of charmed vistas and Telegraph Hill. Lee with his relief process captures the ebullient spirit of San Francisco, its moods and colors; while Lowinger contributes smoldering high-rise visions of the city by night. Newton explores scintillating underground with her Bart series and midnight hours with liquor shops while Sugita brings the Bay Bridge in eerie states of deconstruction along with a groundbreaking new suite of collages.
August at GAW – Love is Still Here exhibition of 12 GAW printmakers continues, gallery hours Fridays and Saturdays from 1:00 – 5:30
This eclectic selection from our 12 graphic artists commemorates the Summer of Love and reminds us too that Love is Still Here!
Recent Work by Eddie Lee, March 3 to 31, 2017
We had a great time with show and thanks for all that attended the opening and participated in the print demo. We got some great pieces out of the demos. If you find the demo process interesting and will like to have more, please leave us your comments.
OPEN STUDIOS 2016 (Oct. 22-23) featured eight GAW printmakers: Jean Capron, Marcia Clay, Melanie Dorson, Mariko Jesse, Eddie Lee, Clare Metague, Andrey Semyonov and Barbara Stikker.
The event was a big success! Bustling with visitors from start to end, the workshop never looked livelier. With wine, food, music, and above all ART in plenty, viewers delighted in the confluence of talent and pleasure. From Barbara Stikker’s wild-eyed images of owls to Melanie Dorson’s dreamy little girls in dreamland (that those wild-eyed owls seemed to stare at from across the studio) wonderful images abounded. Every wall dazzled the eyes, with Mariko Jesse’s world of delicately etched teatimes, Eddie Lee’s meditative suite of colorful shapes like an expression of consciousness itself, Andrey Semyonov’s poetic renderings of places you cannot place but feel, Clare Metague’s linocuts so redolent of tropical joy that they seem to breathe, Jean Capron’s exquisite and sometimes impossibly tiny depictions of graceful goddess-like women, and Marcia Clay’s lively San Francisco full of city dwellers–the 2016 Open Studios collection truly showed off what we do here at the Graphic Arts Workshop.
And lots of sales, of course, kept us smiling!
On November 14. 20-15, Susan Rockrise, former creative director of Intel Corporation, delighted gallery guests and GAW members with a sparkling, anecdote-rich presentation.
Ms. Rockrise, a gifted storyteller, regaled the audience with a spellbinding account of her long-term friendships with Pele de Lappe, Emmy Lou Packard, and other artists in her collection.
De Lappe and Packard, founding members of Graphic Arts Workshop, shared a passion for fine art and political activism. We are grateful to Susan Rockrise for so vividly reviving their memory and inspiring today’s active members of GAW to carry on with the high standard of printmaking that these founding artists established at the workshop’s inception back in 1952.
Sunday Music by Pele de Lappe
View of Mendocino by Emmy Lou Packard
Javier Chalini, Melanie Dorson, and Peter Doolin at their beautiful magic etchings show.
Our last show: Too Strange to Believe had a great run. Thanks for those who attended the reception.
The Prints and Paintings show by member artist Eddie Lee and guess artist See See Lo had a great opening reception last Saturday, June 13. A good crowd of visitors came by to see the exhibit and enjoy the live music and refreshments. The exhibit will be on until July 3rd. Open to public every Friday and Saturday from 12 noon to 5pm. Private viewing are also available with phone or email requests. Please stop by and enjoy the artwork while get to know members of the workshop.
There will be a live print demo by artist Eddie Lee to show his technique on June 20th from 1pm to 4pm. Bring your own paper and love of printing and join the fun. You may be able to bring one of your own art home.
Where draws on highly distilled aspects of the natural landscape and touchstones of the virtual landscape—map pointers, speech bubbles, placeholder avatars—to elicit a sense of the emotional and physical distances between people. Silences, doubts, connections, and misunderstandings hang in the blank spaces.
Work from this project will be up in the Graphic Arts Workshop Gallery as part of a new monthly series for the Dogpatch art cooperative. See more Where, including microzines and animations.
Elisabeth Nicula is a San Francisco-based artist and designer. She was selected as a top-ten San Francisco Open Studios artist at ArtLaunch 2014, and this is her first solo show in San Francisco.
GAW Open House 12-5:30, with reception for artist Maren Salomon’s works on paper exhibited in the front gallery. Exhibition will continue through May 9th, with open hours on Fridays and Saturdays from 12 noon to 5 pm.
Maren Salomon was born in Hamburg, Germany but spent the majority of my adolescence in California. In 2011 I received my B.A. Summa Cum Laude as Department Honoree from San Francisco State University’s Studio Art Department with an emphasis in printmaking.
