Lithography: Here & Now

This show will be a great opportunity to know about lithography.

Opening: Friday, April 12  6 - 8 pm

April 12 - May 9 

Call open hours: 646 416 6226

Blackburn 20|20

EFA, 323 West 39th St, Fl 5, 

New York, NY 10018 

(Between 8th & 9th Ave)

I will show my work call  "Letter from Chief Seattle "    2010

Paper Litho, Collagraph, Burned deco edge    15 x 19.25 inch

Under the influence of “Letter from Chief Seattle”, I made this to protest Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law. The American government and native Americans had different concepts of nature.  “How can you buy or sell the sky?” was an honest question to the American government. Native Americans were the first people who lived here. They helped people who came after them to adapt. We’re all immigrants.

Hope to see you at opening!

Spring Workshop

 Paper Intensive

March 26-April 9   Tuesday 3 sessions  6:30-9:30 pm    

$230 members   $270  non-members

This workshop will introduce three different ways to create images on your paper. You will investigate these ancient techniques to find modern applications, experimenting and transforming your prints into new ideas, as well as combining these mediums with your art work. Bring prints and drawings to work with, and discover unlimited ideas from simple preparations and basic techniques.

Suminagashi is a Japanese marbling technique.

Reaction between water and oil will create marbling images. 

Itajime shibori is a shaped-resist technique.

Folding and clamping paper will create patterns by resisting dye. 

Paste Paper is is a was first used in Europe for covers and papers on books.

Applying brushes and hand tools to the surface of a paper that has been coated with thin colored paste.

More information:  Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

New Prints 2013/Winter

My piece, All things are linked 311, has been selected by the International Print Center's jury for New Prints 2013/Winter.

The show will run from January 18 - March 9, 2013.  The opening reception will be held on Thursday, January 17, from 6 to 8pm.

International Print Center New York: 508 West 26th Street, Room 5A, New York, NY 10001   (212) 989-5090   contact@ipcny.org

New Prints 2013/Winter will travel to Art League Houston in Texas where it will be on view from June 21 to August 2, 2013.

"all things are linked 311" was created as a sequel to my "all things are linked 911". The white embossed Japanese map shows a world without borders. The folded-paper cranes were made out of parts of a world map that was dyed pink. The cranes were placed where nuclear power stations are and where the United States dropped atomic bombs. The symbolic images and the factual records evoke a relationship. In my work I try to make the invisible visible by stimulating imagination and memory, in order to stare at the nature of problems.

I will be the opening. Hope to see you there!