Class Description

NEW This workshop uses a range of new and traditional techniques based in the monotype process. Artists will develop skills while completing a series of print works. Participants will develop an image, transfer the image to paper, and print with primary emphasis placed on the development of each participant’s aesthetic concerns. The class will begin with group demos covering basic oil-based ink monotype techniques then move to more advanced techniques and processes. We will also be working with multiple plates, second pulls (ghosts), stencils, wet and dry paper and a variety of color mixing approaches. *includes 6 hours of open workshop time About the Instructor Master printer, Marina Ancona, (born 1971, New York, NY ) opened 10 Grand Press in 1999 in Brooklyn and has steadily expanded operations since. She moved to a larger workshop in Brooklyn in 2004 and opened a satellite workshop in Santa Fe in 2005, and continues to work in both locations. She has collaborated with a range of artists, including Nicole Eisenman, Jose Maria Sicilia, Jeff Gibson, Leidy Churchman, Nicola Lopez, Carrie Moyer, Rosy Keyser, and Harmony Hammond. Ancona is known for her ability to work in a variety of media and her dedication to experimentation and process. Editions are often variable and frequently incorporate innovative techniques or materials. Before opening 10 Grand Press, Ancona worked in print shops in Santa Fe, Paris, and New York. She studied at the Boston Museum School and the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, where she took master classes with Helen Frankenthaler, Ken Noland, Susan Rothenberg and others. Ancona has given lectures and workshops at Bard College, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY Purchase, and Pratt Institute. Her projects have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Leo Koenig Gallery, Art in General, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.