Exhibition in Asunción - Paraguay

I am so thrilled to share some pictures from my exhibition at the Fundación Migliorisi in Asunción Paraguay with you. It is an absolute pleasure to show my work here and the opening was a total success! Thank you so much to everyone who came to see my work! 

Reconfiguraciones - La vida chaqueña en transición

I would like to invite you to an exhibition of my prints at the Fundación Migliorisi in Asunción, Paraguay. The opening is on July 25, 7:30pm. My exhibition runs parallel to an exhibition by indigenous artists from the Chaco, which is curated by Ursula and Verena Regehr. Most of these artists are the same that participated in my printmaking workshops in 2013 & 2015 and I'm very pleased to show my work in this parallel exhibition under the same umbrella title.

2018 ROC Taiwan update

I found a picture with my print in the background of the photo below at ROC 2018 International Printmaking Exhibition at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art. (Photos: Wojciech Tylbor-Kubrakie).

My printing press

My printing press is in my studio! I am so very excited! We still have to mount the gear box cover and calibrate the pressure gauges. However, I'll have to wait with the inaugural printing till I get back from my exhibition in Paraguay (more about that a different day). Anyways, the press has arrived and is here to stay. I'm happy!

Moving the Press

Last week we got my Charles Brand Press out of storage. We had borrowed a truck and trailer. A forklift had lifted the press onto the trailer. Remember, it weighs about 1 metric ton. Since we had to take it apart anyways to bring it down into the basement, we decided to disassemble it on the trailer. With the help of a friend and a neighbour, Terry lifted the press down in four parts. The next few days I spent the few days in hot hot weather removing all the rust from the bottom and top rollers, the press bed and wearplate. I used a product called Krud Kutter for the rust removal which worked quite nicely along with lots of scrubbing with scrubby dish sponges and steel wool. I did some polishing with steel wool and waxed all the clean steel parts with turtle wax. It took a lot of elbow grease, but I'm really pleased how nicely the press cleaned up in the end. Below are some 'before' (at pick up) and 'after' (after rust removal prior to final polish) pictures.

(At pick up in 2016)

(Lower roller before)

(Upper roller after rust removal)

We had taken the press apart into four pieces to get it down the stairs with three guys (Chris and Terry: thank you so so much for helping!). Terry had build some support structures and rigging to help manoeuvre the pieces down the stairs, which was really helpful. Lets not think about how we'll ever get it up the stairs again quite yet.

(Moving lower roller)

Moving the press bed. We estimate that it weighs somewhere between 300-400kg.

Terry's moving jig to lower the press bed down the stairs with a rope. A nifty yoke construction kept the heavy press bed from tilting sideways.

My very own studio

Two weeks after moving into our very own first house in Winnipeg, my studio is starting to take shape. Here's the first half of the main studio and part of my storage space with vertical plate and tube storage. Can't wait to get the press in here! (Thanks to Larry and Bruce in Edmonton for two of the flat files, the work tables and the vertical storage! Thanks to Terry for building the tube storage inspired by Highpoint's storage!) I'm so happy to finally be able to settle down and to set up my own print studio where I can work to my heart's content. More updates to follow as the studio comes along.

2018 ROC

I am delighted to have my work selected through two jury rounds to be part of the International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2018 ROC in Taiwan! 2018 ROC will be exhibited at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts from June 23th to September 2nd, 2018.
For more information, please visit the 2018 ROC website.