Posts in Artists In the Studio

Alison Byrnes’s “Scientific Theories”

Dec 02, 2013

This is the second of two posts about our Art-in-Education book resident Alison Byrnes’s project Scientific Theories Once Widely Believed, Since Proven Wrong. If you missed our first post, catch up here. “Einstein was either right about being wrong, or wrong about being right, or partially right, or right at the wrong time,” writes Alison Byrnes… View Article

Katrina Kiapos & the Photographer’s Hand

Nov 20, 2013

Katrina Kiapos works caffeinated and alone in the dark for several hours each day. It’s a bit of a lonely and antisocial way of working, but for Katrina it’s the way things have to be. During her four-week Workspace Residency Katrina has set up shop in our darkroom formulating her own emulsion, liquefying it, and… View Article

Destroying & Rebuilding: Lucy Turner in the Studio

Nov 07, 2013

When Irish artist Lucy Turner applied for our Art-In-Education Workspace residency, she knew she wanted to explore ways of translating prints into three-dimensional forms but she wasn’t sure where it was going to go. She arrived five weeks ago with a pattern book for creating folded paper structures and a tireless commitment to following her… View Article

Illuminated Histories: Alison Byrnes In the Studio

Oct 31, 2013

Over the next few weeks, we’re tracking our resident Alison Byrnes’s book project Scientific Theories Once Widely Believed, Since Proven Wrong. This is the first post in the series. It seems that Alison Byrnes has been screenprinting all day, every day. In just over three short weeks, she’s run off 100 of each of the… View Article

Across Time & Space: Sarah Peters in the Studio

Oct 23, 2013

This is the second of two posts on Sarah Peters’s project The Moon Has No Weather. If you missed it, read the first post here. “Sometimes I think this is really doable and sometimes I think this book is never going to get done,” Artist’s Book resident Sarah Peters said on October 3 amidst her final… View Article

Audrey Hurd Makes Her Mark

Oct 16, 2013

In the silkscreen studio, Audrey Hurd and WSW Studio Manager Chris Petrone are each pulling one half of a long squeegee across a 55×39” screen burned with a large halftone of a smooth and curving form. The ink – once thick as cake frosting – is finally the right consistency, and it pushes through the… View Article

Shu Mei Chan: The Artist is Present

Oct 09, 2013

A skeletal netted form is taking shape piece by twiggy piece on the laundry line behind the workshop. Gillian Jagger Legacy Artist-in-Residence Shu Mei Chan is behind the sculptural growth, carrying tubs of what look like bones of various sizes to the site and unpacking them in piles before linking them into the slowly-growing sheet… View Article

Fly Me to the Moon: Sarah Peters in the Studio

Sep 30, 2013

Over the next few weeks, we’re tracking our book resident Sarah Peters’s project The Moon Has No Weather. This is the first post in the series. If not for the hand-marbled paper, bits of abaca and Thai mulberry, polymer plates, and paper casts that look like chunks of lumpy lunar surface, you’d be forgiven for… View Article

Liza Macrae: The Beautiful & the Really Real

Sep 21, 2013

Liza Macrae likes to have her hands in a little bit of everything. Her eclectic photographic portfolio spans several processes and methods: digital and analog; color and black and white; calotypes, silver prints, platinum and palladium prints. Now in the last week of her one-month Ora Schneider residency, she can add photogravures to the list. Liza… View Article

Cheryl Paswater & the Importance of Being Playful

Sep 09, 2013

Cheryl Paswater has sprawled her double-sided 14×14” woodblocks across one wall of our intaglio studio, and she’s approaching her work the best way she knows how. “I’m about to try something I’ve never done, which should be fun,” she announces with a shrug and a laugh, inking a block. Cheryl is introducing chine colle into her… View Article