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33rd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition

David Mazure — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:07:57 +0000

For those of you who may be in Peoria, IL on March 5th, you can check out the 33rd Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition at the Heuser Art Center Gallery in the Contemporary Art Center at Bradley University (there’s an Art Chantry poster exhibit preceding the Bradley International in the same gallery!). The reception will be from 5-7pm. I am excited to be a part of this show because the focus is on experimental prints and drawings. The piece that was accepted into the show is, Jungian Whim (seen here) from 2007, my favorite traditional print that I still continue to get some mileage out of!

Angelus

David Mazure — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:07:02 +0000

Here’s a screenprint that I made in 2009 at ETSU under the guidance of Master Printer & Professor Ralph Slatton (read an article on his recent retrospective here). The image below is the vector (digital) art for the actual screenprint that did not come out as well as I had planned. The registration on the screenprint was a little off, that is why I’m showing you the pure, untainted vector art in its stead. Surprisingly, I don’t think I ever gave it a title. If I remember correctly, I believe the inspiration for this screenprint came from a famous Salvador Dali painting, Angelus (also known as Millet’s Architectonic Angelus) from 1933, which I have had an affinity for (and used as inspiration) since my undergraduate days. I enjoy the simple relationship of forms. Dali’s inspiration for this painting (which is evident by its title) is Jean-Francois Millet’s Angelus from 1859 (both of which are pictured below).

Salvador Dali, Angelus, 1933

Jean-Francois Millet, Angelus, 1859

K.A.S. Gallery: Black & White Exhibit

David Mazure — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:07:07 +0000

And. . . another show! Not a big surprise that I would enter a show titled: Black & White, huh? I will have one piece at the K.A.S. Gallery in Louisville, KY for their Black & White Exhibit which runs from October 29th – December 10th, 2010. I’m very excited about this show because this will be the first time the below piece has ever appeared in an exhibit. It is a monotype etching (intaglio) titled Incoherent Thought-Pattern:

The Morrison School

David Mazure — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:07:42 +0000

The Morrison School in Bristol, VA is having an auction! (I do not yet have the exact date and time of the auction, but will post a follow-up once that information becomes available). They will be auctioning off artwork to support their school whose mission is: “. . .prevent attention and learning disabilities from becoming lifelong handicaps that interfere with educational, job, and personal success.” For more information on the Morrison School go here. I have donated the two pieces of artwork you see below. If you are an artist and interested in donating artwork to the Morrison School auction, send an email to morrisonschool@bvunet.net, to the attention of Chandra Morse.

Charm Quark • Lithograph • 2008

Inprimitude • Etching (Intaglio) • 2007

New Gallery Added!

David Mazure — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:07:03 +0000

A new gallery has been added! Just click on the Galleries link above (then scroll down to Miscellaneous Artwork) or just click here to view it. The Miscellaneous Artwork gallery contains a several prints and drawings that I kind of forgot about over the past few years. Most of them have only been on exhibit in one or two shows (or not at all!). One of my favorites is Oblivination (from 2007?) pictured below. Oblivination is a series of five framed intaglios with clear & translucent vinyl (thanks Logan!) adhered to the glass.

Remnants of Taurus

David Mazure — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:07:27 +0000

Only a few more pieces of artwork from my current exhibition Cohabitants at the William King Museum

left to post!

The piece pictured below is a series of lithographs with a large amount of custom mat cutting (thanks to Betsey-Rose at American Folk Art & Framing for letting me use your robotic mat cutter!). It is titled, Remnants of Taurus (lithography, mat board, and rubylith) and, from what I gather, is the least popular piece I included in the show.

*The video is not part of Remnants of Taurus.

Taurus M1

Taurus HR1457a

Taurus HR1346

Taurus HR1409

Feero Molaf Duul (Part 2)

David Mazure — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:17:28 +0000

This part of Feero Molaf Duul consists of a long strip of grey paint extending to the ceiling with two white vinyl prints (thanks Logan!) adhered to it. Other than that, I don’t have much to say about this portion of the installation. I am much more interested in hearing what you have to say! Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

Feero Molaf Duul (Part 1)

David Mazure — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:07:17 +0000

Now we move on to the large wall painting/digital print/graphite drawing/lenticular print/vinyl print installation titled Feero Molaf Duul (the entire piece is shown in the first image below). The first part I’m going to talk about is the framed digital print portion of the overall installation, although technically untitled, I will be calling Microscopic Inspection (for reference purposes). As with every piece in the exhibit (besides Rosetta and RSTT) this entire installation is based upon my own observational figure drawings. Most of this piece is based off of my drawings of two close friends, TJ & Jessica (thanks guys!). Microscopic Inspection represents the deepest investigation and the furthest abstraction from my original drawings that appear in this show. It was all hand-drawn in Adobe Illustrator (except for the text, of course) — yes, hand-drawn! — no fancy computer 3-D shortcuts for me!

Interesting side note: After I had printed this piece out, framed it, and hung it, I noticed that one small, black shape was missing — it was just a blank white space! The reason for this is because I ‘hid’ (Illustrator users will know what I’m talking about – Command/3) the shape in question before I printed and didn’t ’show’ it when I actually printed. This is what most people call a ‘happy accident’ because the solution I devised to rectify the situation (creating and applying a vinyl print directly to the digital print) is much stronger and adds another intriguing dimension to the print (the detail of this is shown in the second-to-last image of this post).

The text in the final image below directly correlates to the vinyl word installation Rosetta which will be discussed at length in a future post.

For your viewing pleasure I have included pictures of the actual print and some of the digital file below.

I’m sure there are going to be some questions regarding this piece, so, please, ask away!

Shot from Infantree

David Mazure — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:44:15 +0000

Here’s a nice shot from the Organism show at the Infantree Gallery two months ago:

Pictures from Organism

David Mazure — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:37:18 +0000

Thanks to Timothy Hoover at the Infantree Gallery for taking some quality pictures of my show last month! Here are a few of them: