33 1/3: For the Record
George Marshall Store Gallery, York, Maine
October 12- November 17, 2024
To commemorate our 33rd year as a cooperative printmaking studio, our members designed editions of six prints and two artists’ proofs in the format of vinyl record albums. Each artist created prints that were 12 ¼” x 12 ¼” in format, using techniques from traditional etching to cyanotype. With this portfolio, we mark a moment in our history as a creative group and add our individual voices to the spin of time.
Peregrine Press is the oldest non-profit printmaking cooperative in Maine and among a few of its kind in the nation. From a shared studio in Portland, members work in a variety of printmaking techniques including collagraph, woodcut, monotype, etching, photo-etching, lithography, and other mixed media processes. Learn more about Peregrine Press.
My piece, “Sea Change”, imagines water columns in the sea full of phytoplankton, teeming with new life, but also rife with plastic. The color shift from cool to warm in the first stage of printing suggests the warming of the Gulf of Maine; in the second stage, all pervasive plastic is embodied by printing from actual plastic bits I saved from bread ties and bottle caps, as well as rafia for the miles of nylon rope tangled in ocean gyres; third stage is a paper lithography of a brush and ink painting of stone patterns on the sea floor.