Prints – Limited Editions and Monotypes

Opening Reception: Wednesday January 11, 2006. 6-9pm.

Exhibition Date: January 11 – 25, 2006.

Bai Xincheng (China) – Limited Edition lithographs prints on paper

Julia Nee Chu (China/USA) – Limited Edition Archival Glicee prints

Donald Damask (USA) – One-of-a-kind Glicee Prints

Terrell James (USA) – Etching Prints and Monotypes on paper

Rick Lewis (USA) – Monoprints on paper

Pablo Posada Pernikoff (Japan) – Unique Mono Engraving on Paper

Sin Sin Fine Art is proud to present its first exhibition solely dedicated to artist prints for six talented artists from China, Japan, and USA.  An opening reception will be held at Sin Sin Fine Art on Wednesday January 11, 2006, from 6pm-9pm.

Beijing artist Bai Xincheng (b. 1957) has always devoted himself to the study of lines. The unique position of line in his art stems from his unorthodox training in his formative years and his training in calligraphy.  Bai’s line serves as a connection between Chinese tradition and Western modernity.  For him, lines are a highly individualistic language that creates highly expressive images and in a state of confusion.

Julia Nee Chu was born in Shanghai and currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California.  Nee Chu’s focus has always had to do with nature or rather, the processes or movements of nature.  She states:  “For a Chinese, the purest form of art is calligraphy.  The spirit of the brushstroke, also called touch, is spontaneity and finality.”  Nee Chu’s act of painting is a dialogue between the conscious and the unconscious, and the orientation of herself to the world.

Born 1953 in New York City, Donald Damask’s aesthetic interests are focused on the colors and textures in life that are passed by and taken for granted.  He is inspired by the subtle details of wall surfaces, nuances that chronicle the movement of time: lights, darks, shadows, hot, cold, wet, dry, smooth, rough, organic, living and decaying.

Born 1955 in Texas, Terrell James is primarily concerned with the spatial layering revealed by a study of landscape using natural and organic forms. In her work every line has a purpose and is solidly placed. Her compositions possess a dreamy, ethereal landscape quality that pulls the viewer into a dreamscape of etched fields of abstracted nature.

Rick Lewis’ works are about the stark impermanence and beauty of the natural world, especially the vague territory of remembered experience.  The pieces are an “analog of physical experience, where a remembered landscape or event leaves us with sensations and associations of our own.”   Born 1960 in Texas, his 2002 Artist in Residency in Bali, Indonesia has influenced his works with an ever-greater sense of spirituality, filled with harmonious earth-like colors.

Pablo Posada Pernikoff was born in 1964 in Pamplona, Spain and now lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.  His works are based on the natural phenomena of matter flowing through space and time and are carved, pressed or engraved using glass, paper, metal, pigment and ink. Each paper relief also creates lines of light and shadow conveying movement, however the centre metal component traces movement frozen in time.

Reference to printing technique:

Monotype - A one-of-a-kind print made by painting on a smooth metal, glass or stone plate and then printing on paper. The pressure of printing creates a texture not possible when painting directly on paper.

Lithography: a method of printing from a design drawn directly onto a slab of stone or other suitable material.  The most recent of the major graphic techniques, it was invented in 1798 by Aloys Senefelder.  The process is based on the antipathy of grease and water, the design being drawn with a greasy crayon.  After this has been chemically fixed, the stone is wetted and then rolled with oily ink, which adheres only to the greasy drawing, the rest of the surface, being damp, repelling the ink.

Archival digital print: Printing through computer technologies. They are printed with archival Ultra-Chrome 7 color ink, 1440 X 720 dpi (droplets per inch). Printed on archival museum rag Velvet paper or watercolor paper. They are color permanent, water proved and durable, not to be confused with inkjet color.

Etching - A printing process in which an etching needle is used to draw into a wax ground applied over a metal plate. The plate is then submerged in a series of acid baths, each biting into the metal surface only where unprotected by the ground. The ground is removed, ink is forced into the etched depressions, the unetched surfaces wiped, and an impression is printed. Also, both the design etched on a plate and an impression made from an etched plate. Too often confused with engraving.

Monoprint: One of a series of prints in which each has some differences of color, design, texture, etc. applied to an underlying common image.

Engraving: A method of cutting or incising a design into a material, usually metal, with a sharp tool called a graver. In engraving, a print can be made by inking such an incised (engraved) surface. It may also refer to a print produced in this way. Most contemporary engraving is done in the production of currency, certificates, etc.