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Louisa Chase

GLEN E. ALPS b. 1914 Loveland, Colorado; d. 1996, Seattle, Washington

A master sculptor and printmaker, Glen E. Alps is widely known as having developed the collagraph. A collagraph is a print made using a collage printmaking technique where the image is composed of a variety of textured materials glued to a substrate (plate) and printed in either intaglio or relief fashion. The first such prints were made in the 1930s, although it is impossible to say with certainty who invented the process. Glen Alps made collagraphy his primary art form and used the technique in ways that were uniquely his own. He coined the tern "collagraph" in 1956 while teaching printmaking at the School of Art at the University of Washington.

Alps studies at the University of Northern Colorado and was awarded the Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington. He did postgraduate work at the University of Iowa. Professor Alps taught at University of Washington School of Art for nearly forty years. His prints can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum; National Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Seattle Art Museum and may others. 

A retrospective, “Glen Alps: Master Printmaker," was mounted by Loveland Museum/Gallery in Loveland, Colorado in 2009.

Pilchuck Summer,1988   

intaglio vitreograph on Arches, Edition of  40

image size 18 x 24 inches; paper size 26 x 33 inches            $700*

The glass matrices for Pilchuck Summer were created by Glen Alps in 1987 at Pilchuck School of Glass during a vitreograph workshop presented by Harvey K. Littleton and his printer, David Wharton. A bon a tirer was produced during that time. The plates were printed at Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine, North Carolina.

WALTER DARBY BANNARD

Walter Darby Bannard is an internationally recognized abstract painter. He is also a noted writer about art whose articles have been published in Artforum and Art in America. His art work in in the collections of the major New York art museums, including the Museum of Modern Arty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as many other art institutions in the United States and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions of Bannard's work include “Moving into Color” at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery of Edison College in Fort Myers, Florida (2007) and “Walter Darby Bannard: Minimal Paintings 1959-1965” at the Jackson Howard Gallery in New York City.       

Carolina Sunrise, 1987  

Intaglio vitreograph, Edition of 30

 image size 23 x 28 1/2 inches, paper size 30 x 42 inches                 $650*

 Carolina Sundown, 1987   

Intaglio vitreograph, Edition of 30

 image size 23 x 28 1/2 inches; paper size 30 x 42 inches                 $650*

LINDA BLACKBURN b.1941, Baltimore, Maryland

Linda Blackburn received a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Texas and a Master of Fine Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a past recipient of painting grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Blackburn paints landscapes and portraits, often with a southwestern influence. She and her husband, fellow artist Ed Blackburn, visited Littleton Studios in 1986 to create in vitreography.

Carolina Landscape, 1986                                                                                   

Intaglio vitreograph, image size: 11 ¼ x 14 ¼ inches                                             

$ 300                                                                                                                  

Carolina Still Life, 1986                                                                                                                                                                Intaglio vitreograph, image size: 11 ¼ x 14 ¼ inches                                                                                                                        $ 300

CYNTHIA BRINGLE b. Memphis, Tennessee 1939; resides in North Carolina

Cynthia Bringle is a nationally renowned studio potter and teacher. She began her career as a painter but discovered her affinity for ceramics at the Memphis Academy of Art. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art there and went on to study at Alfred University, receiving the MFA in 1964.

The artist's work in ceramics can be found in museum collections such as the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, North Carolina, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Corporate collections holding her work include B.F. Goodrich, Bank of America, Nations Bank, GLAXO, Inc., IBM Corporation and R.J. Reynolds.

Bringle was a visiting teacher at Penland School of Craft through the 1960s and became a permanent resident of the Penland Community in 1970. Cynthia sister, Edwina Bringle, is a textile artist who also has enjoyed a long association with Penland school of craft. Cynthia and Edwina's hard and soft art forms share a common sensibility in their use of color, pattern and texture. Both sister created prints at Littleton Studios in 2005.

With her colleague, potter Norm Schulman, Cynthia Bringle was named a “North Carolina Living Treasure" for 2009-2010. Exhibitions honoring both artists are scheduled for 2009 at Ogden Museum of Southern Art  in New Orleans, Louisiana and at the Folk Art Center in Asheville, North Carolina.

Dye Shed Porch, 2005

vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 20

image size: 15 x 22 inches; paper size: 21 x 28 inches                $650*

Red Pots, 2005

vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 20

image size: 20 x 16 inches; paper size: 28 x 23 inches                $650*

EDWINA BRINGLE b. Memphis, Tennessee 1939; resides in North Carolina

Edwina Bringle is an artist known for her woven textiles and free motion embroidered pieces. She was a radiological technician when, in the summer of 1964, she traveled to Penland School of Craft in North Carolina with her twin sister Cynthia. There she took a hand weaving class and was intrigued enough to continue her studies, eventually becoming a teacher of hand weaving at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. After a 24-year career at the university, Edwina moved to the community of Penland, North Carolina to become a studio artist, working alongside her sister.

Tapestry Ride, 2005

vitreograph with digital transfer on Rives BFK, Edition 20

image size: 13 x 22 inches; paper size: 20 x 28 inches               $650*

Sky Garden, 2005

vitreograph with digital transfer on on Rives BFK, Edition 20

image size: 21 x 15 inches; paper size: 27 x 21 inches                $650*

LOUISA CHASE  b. 1951, resides in New York City

 Like her Neo-Expressionist contemporaries Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischl and Elizabeth Murray, Louisa Chase gained prominence in the art world of the 1980s.  In addition to her boldly painted canvases that translate personal experiences into color and symbol, Chase has often used printmaking to express her ideas.  She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Syracuse University in New York and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art. Her work has been exhibited in museums in Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Tokyo and throughout the United States. 

She was a featured artist at the 1984 Venice Biennale; also in that year her work was the subject of a traveling exhibition assembled by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.  A major exhibition of Chase's creativity as a printmaker was organized by the Madison (Wisconsin) Art Center in 1996. A solo exhibitions was mounted at Goya Contemporary & Goya–Girl Press in Baltimore, Maryland (2008).

Chase's work is included in premier museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Corcoran Gallery and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Denver Museum in Colorado, among others.

Swarm, 1998

Intaglio vitreograph and siligraph on rag paper

image size: 22 ¼ x 16 ½ inches; paper size: 30 x 22 ½ inches     $600

Swarm is a three color intaglio and siligraph (waterless lithography) print from glass plates. The print hums with the intense energy of a cloud of bees, an especially heavy group of which hover in the upper half of the composition like a cluster of ripe grapes.

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