Radcliffe Bailey + Victoria Rowell

A month or two ago I had designed the print collateral for a visiting artist event at Rochester Institute of Technology. After the dinner reception and chatting with Radcliffe for a while, Colby and I gave him and Victoria a tour of the College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at RIT. This was a snapshot from the Gallery r exhibition and auction that night before they left back to Atlanta. They were both really great!

Special Effects, Andrew Davidhazy

Things have been so bussssyyyyyyyyy, just wanted to throw these up

Remnants: Within an Age of Digitalism (Pre-Reception)

Remnants: Within an Age of Digitalism

Synthesis No. 2667 Ureilassius (24" x 36" Intaglio-Type Series)

Synthesis No. 2187 Aenon

Synthesis No. 2047 Nanai

Synthesis No. 2030 Susano

Synthesis No. 2054 Xairon

Andrew Davidhazy, Special Effects

Printmaking Monotypes with Ron Pokrasso

Die Cuts, Embossing, Projections, Digital Media

Thesis work has been in the works for sometime, although I don't think I will end up showing a key piece or two due to setup of the gallery and lack of time on my part. I don't really see this show as an end all, only the beginning, so that's ok. I have been working with technology since at least 1995 when I studied graphic communications at my high school and downloaded my first version of Photoshop. Actually, it was all an "accident" I never had an art class until my senior year of high school, and I had only transferred to Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School because the day before classes started in the 9th grade I had gone to the dentist and one of my best friends James was there. He told me that he was changing schools... So I asked my father if I could too, I didn't even know what a vocational school was. I remember being called down to the cafeteria to sign up for "shops"... later I learned that this meant that I only had to study "academics" every other week, but really it meant so much more. I changed shops three times while I was there, Electronics, Information Technology, and Graphic Communications.

Actually, I really hated commercial printing, I found it to be so boring at the time. Printing calendars and brochures was not fun at all, but luckily somehow I learned enough which transferred over to my Printmaking as an undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology. My first real experience with fine art printing was when I met Keith Howard and David Jay Reed, that changed everything. I miss those years because I used to do everything that you weren't supposed to do, when you're young and clueless you just don't know any better. I remember asking Keith if I could develop a photograph (photo paper) in the developer... which turned out to be "soda ash" and not photographic chemical. He looked at me and said he didn't know whether to laugh or not because he couldn't figure out if I was being serious.

The way I work has changed and evolved over the years but in general it starts with sketches/drawing that I redo in Photoshop or Illustrator. Using scanners, commercial printing techniques, and photographic processes... They all usually end up being mixed up together. I really do not see a difference between any of them and I never have. I've had this discussion a lot lately... it always ends up really abstracted and people telling me that this is not that or that is not this.

Silkscreen Photography

Before break I was approached by Sergio Gomez from Columbia, a first year graduate in the photography program to help with some silkscreen. After figuring out a few variables in the studio during open hours, our troubleshooting paid off. I can't wait to see his graduate walk through. The first screen was underexposed (the emulsion completely fell apart) so we redid the exposure time and degreased the screen again just as a precaution. Not bad for his first silkscreen print ever! (2oo mesh count, 1 min.)

Thesis Exhibition Exploration

Testing out the light units... fun times!



I hope I exported the right dot gains... argh...

3D Printer, Interdisciplinary Collaboration

School for American Crafts: Glass Blowing

Keith Howard Exhibition, Non Toxic Printmaking

Massimo Vignelli

How often do you look out a window and see Massimo Vignelli?

Design Boom at Rochester Institute of Technology

A review of Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Design & Innovation Center, Interdisciplinary

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/15346/rochester-institute-of-technology-school-of-design.html

RIT 2011 Graduate Research Symposium

What a great summer! The feedback and turnout for the Analog to Digital show was more than what I had expected, I was very fortunate to have been included in this innovative exhibition at LACDA! (I never thought my work would be amongst Baldessari's, one of my favorite artists and educators of all time.) Most recently I was a presenter on the topic Hybridization: Paradigm of the 21st Century at Rochester Institute of Technology where I presented my thesis progress work and writing at the Graduate Research Symposium 2011. It was a great experience and I was really happy to see a lot of the topics that discussed a vast arrangement of contemporary themes including papers on claycraft, algorithm generation, and video/digital installation. My "Vision Aviators" print was used within its program and signage throughout the event space; it's great to see the collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts from all of the students who attended the symposium which included the school of art, engineering, computer and information sciences, applied sciences, and multidisciplinary studies. There is so much potential with the new Innovation center! http://www.rit.edu/innovationcenter/aboutus