Cynthia Protzman       Baltimore Blocks, colograph on paper, $650 ($750 framed)

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January 8^th th – Feburary 4th 2010

Opening reception: 7pm to 10pm Friday, January 8th with live performance by DJ Dyl Sauce.

Printed Surroundings is an art exhibition dedicated to local printmakers.  Many of the prints include images of Baltimore’s urban landscapes and the city’s various animal inhabitants.   Exhibiting artists include:

Matt Muirhead, Spoon Popkin, Val Lucas, Cynthia Protzman, Cris Cimatu, Katherine Fahey, Carlos Vigil, Mattye Hamilton, Sherry Jeniewicz, Julia Kostreva, Matt Fouse and Kyle Van Horn.

As residents of Baltimore we are affected every day by a checkerboard landscape of poverty and privilege, reflected through the neighborhoods we past though, visit or live in. Printed Surroundings includes imagery of neighborhoods like Hampden, Charles Village, Mt. Vernon and Pig Town.   A variety of birds swarm the walls, such as The Raven by Val Lucas and The Early Bird by Dylan Salmon.  Check out the printed Natty Boh and Utz’s potato chips printed across doormats by Spoon Popkin or the T’s by Carlos Virgil that also incorporate the infamous Boh logo.

Prints are a great type of art for people to collect.  Compared to a painting, prints are more readily available and often less expensive, because they usually come in editions, meaning there are multiple copies of the same image. Typically, prints are printed on to paper from a (wood, metal or plastic, etc.) matrix.  We want to expose a wide verity of prints being made in Baltimore.  Printed Surroundings extends beyond traditional printmaking to include images that are printed onto doormats, trashcans and fabrics.  We even include lazar jet computer prints.

In this exhibition, the act of printing stands as the art.  These are not printed versions of art, these are art as print.

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Katherine Fahey       The Morning After the Ice Factory Burned Down, screen print on paper, $80 (18′ x 18″ framed)

Val Lucas      The Raven, woodcut and letterpress, $125 ($175 framed) 15×21

Julia Kostreva     Fox in the Flower Bed, screen print on paper, $50 15 x 22

Spoon Popkin       Owl, stencel on doormat, $50

Cynthia Protzman

Cris Cimatu      Hampden, lazer jet computer print, $9.00

Spoon Popkin     Believe, Stencil on doormat, $50

Cynthia Protzman       Street Cornor, screen print, $115 ($175 framed)

Julia Kostreva     Dirty Projectors, screen print on paper, $50 ($80 framed) 15″ x 22″

Spoon Popkin   Pride of Baltimore, stencil on doormat, $40

Katherine Fahey       Rose of the Winds, acrylic and screen print on paper, $60, (18″ x 18″ framed)

Val Lucas  H is for Hummingbird, handcolored woodcut and hand-set type, $100 framed, $65 unframed, 6.5′ x 9′

Sherry Janiewicz       View from Union Square, reduction linocut, edition of 10, $170 unframed, $190 framed

Val Lucas       Rowhouses, $110 framed, 4-color reduction woodcut,  $75 unframed, 11×15

Spoon Popkin       Stretching cat, stencil on doormat, $40

Cris Cimatu       Pig Town, lazor jet computer print, $9.00

Carlos Vigil       Krylon Boh, screen print on America Apparel T shirt,  $25,  ($35 framed)