Heading to Miami

We're off to Miami on Monday to get set up for INK Miami at the Suites of Dorchester. This will be our third year doing INK. We really enjoy the unique and relaxed setting of this fair. There will be thirteen exhibitors surrounding a courtyard with a reflecting pool. INK focuses on contemporary works on paper and we exhibit with our colleagues from the IFPDA.

If you are in Miami come and see us. We'll have new and recent prints by John Buck, Tom Burckhardt, Enrique Chagoya, Roberto Juarez, Robert Kushner and Betty Woodman.

I know it will be beautiful in Miami....but I don't think they'll be able to top this sunset. This photo taken from the studio about a week ago. We always get amazing sunsets around this time of year.

Busy week

After returning from Palm Springs I charged into a busy week of printing in the studio trying to get projects finished before Thanksgiving and INK Miami. Started the week with the final three plates/colors (of 12) to complete the Chagoya book "Historie Naturelle.....". Now the edition is on it's way to the artist for signing.

Next up was the editioning of the last of six small Bernard Cohen lithographs that we are printing for Flowers Graphics, London. My collaborations with Bernard go back to 1968 at the University of New Mexico. Bernard was a visiting artist and I was returning from a summer at Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles and was asked to work with Bernard on some lithographs. We had an immediate rapport. My many collaborations with Bernard have been among the most interesting and rewarding.

I don't often do "contract" projects, but, I always welcome an opportunity to work with Bernard. He came in August/September and we completed ten images....four large and six small. We've been working on the project for several months and it's satisfying to have the group of small ones completed.

Today we had a visit from Cydney Payton, Karl Kister, and Petra Sertic from the MCA Denver to look at prints and finalize plans for the Shark's exhibition there. The show will open February 3rd and be on view until June 28th, 2009. It will feature 85 prints by 10 artists with whom I have had long term and significant collaborations. Artists included will be John Buck, Enrique Chagoya, Bernard Cohen, Red Grooms, Don Ed Hardy, Jane Hammond, Robert Kushner, Hung Liu, Hollis Sigler and Betty Woodman. Watch for more news about the exhibition and programs.

Bud & Enrique: Palm Springs

Enrique Chagoya and I gave our talk last night at the Palm Springs Museum. It went well and we had a very good turn out. We talked about our collaborations which began in 1997 with "Hand of Power". We've done more than a dozen prints together.....many of them books or "codices". The newest one "Histoire Naturelle des Espécies: Illegal Alien's Manuscript" (shown above) is on the press in the studio. I'll be printing the last three of the twelve plates this week.

It was nice to be able to see Enrique's survey exhibition at the Palm Springs Museum. I've been able to see the show at all of the three venues (Des Moines Art Center, Berkeley At Museum, Palm Springs Museum). It's surprising how the look of exhibition varies at each venue. Some pieces stand out at one venue and not another. The relationships between the work change depending on the installations. The work resonates in different ways each time I've seen it. Even the prints that I've printed and am so familiar with take on new meaning in different contexts.

Palm Springs

Just arrived in Palm Springs in advance of the talk I'll be giving with Enrique Chagoya tomorrow. The talk will be at the Palm Springs Art Museum in connection with the Chagoya exhibition here. We'll be talking about our print collaborations since 1997. You can view many of our projects together by clicking here.

It's warm here and I'm sitting by the pool...creating this blog and working on my presentation for Friday.