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BIG NEWS! Studio Arrabbiata has moved operations to the Jersey Shore Arts Center in Ocean Grove, NJ. The historic building (on the right) is the former Neptune High School, built in the 1890's and recently restored as a center for arts related businesses and groups of all kinds- visual artists, theater, dance. Studio Arrabbiata is is sharing space with Social Animal Press . Photos of the studio space are on the Home page.
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Jersey Shore Arts Center
Ocean Grove, NJ
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The entrance to Studio Arrabbiata
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I've started a blog devoted to life around the studio. It provides an inside look at what I'm up to- new work in progress, information about exhibitions, workshops and studio events, and whatever else I feel like. Besides the many links to it on this site, you can go to it directly at http://studioarrabbiata.blogspot.com. Social Animal Press hosts a discussion/critique group in the studio on the first Monday of every month, from 7 pm to 9 pm, or whenever it breaks up. Artists in all media are invited to bring a piece or two and join the professional level discussion.
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My print on the right was part of the 3rd Fine Art Adjunct Faculty Exhibition at Kean University. The show was on display this past September and October in the James Howe Gallery at Kean University in Union, NJ.
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A History of Art
hand colored woodcut
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The Floating World: Tattoo Studio hand colored woodcut
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The print to the left is part of the 35th Annual Printmaking Council of New Jersey Member Exhibition, called Where Have We Been? The show will be on display at the Somerset County Courthouse Galleries from March 1 through April 9, 2010. The show is split between two very close locations in Somerville: 20 Grove Street and 40 N. Bridge Street. I don't know in which space my piece will hang, so check them both out. The whole show will also be shown at the PCNJ Main Gallery from May 15 through July 24, 2010.
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My most recent solo exhibition was in the Bing-Davis Memorial Gallery in the Edgar Fine Arts Hall at Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa, from November 13 through December 18, 2008. The print to the right was among the 44 woodcuts that I had on display. The show also included selections from my Everyman, Ecclesiastes, and Scenes from the Grand Opening series. Examples of some of those works and the stories behind those series can be found here. More gallery information is available at www.uiu.edu/art.
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Employee woodcut
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Demonstrating woodcut at Georgian Court University in 1999
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I recently taught a two day woodcut workshop at the Printmaking Council of New Jersey. It's a workshop that I have taught there several times before. I show some representative examples of my work, as well as prints by dozens of other relief printmakers. Then students start on their own blocks. Over the course of the weekend I demonstrate basic cutting and printing, as well as discuss the wider possibilities of woodcuts. I'm there to help students turn their ideas into finished prints. Information about future woodcut workshops will be posted here as they are scheduled.
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