Pressed Narratives
Jeffrey Dell
Juan Escudero
Jon Greene
Cary Hulbert
Michael Krueger
online Exhibition
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SKYE GALLERY is thrilled to present “Pressed Narratives,” their first immersive, online art experience. This show presents artworks by five master printmakers who employ varied techniques to explore the same medium. A celebration of both traditional methods and contemporary innovation, “Pressed Narratives” invites viewers to take a closer look at the versatility of printmaking.
Jon Greene’s specialty lies in depicting familiar surfaces using synthetic materials and thin-layer ink on paper. His work reflects personal experiences and explores how we perceive our surroundings, highlighting society's defining social, psychological, and economic barriers.
Similarly, Jeffrey Dell’s screenprints engage themes of human desire and its effects on perception, impulse, appetite, and health. Dell’s prints are characterized by their detailed, layered textures and nuanced use of color, showcasing a profound sensitivity to the printmaking process.
Juan Escudero makes meditative landscapes that explore themes related to human emotions and nature. His work primarily involves traditional techniques like etching and engraving. His prints are known for their intricate details and fine lines. This meticulous approach allows for a rich visual texture and depth.
Master printmaker Michael Krueger marries both time-honored and groundbreaking techniques such as etching, lithography, gesso, and watercolor to cultivate human connection and explore narrative, mythology, counterculture, the history of art, and personal memoirs. His work frequently showcases intricate textures and subtle tonal variations, highlighting his skill in manipulating the printmaking medium to achieve complex visual effects.
Meanwhile, Cary Hulbert is known for combining nontraditional tools such as colored pencil, gouache, and silkscreen to create fluid landscapes that depict an alternate realm, one that evokes associations with the dream realm and afterlife.
“Pressed Narratives” offers a compelling, intimate view of printmaking's breadth and depth through the work of four distinct masters who showcase a rich tapestry of the medium’s capabilities. We invite you to join us online through October 1st in celebration of Skye Gallery’s first digital exhibit. Here, you can delve into the innovative techniques and diverse perspectives of these artists and experience the versatility of printmaking from the comfort of your own space.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
JEFFREY DELL
Jeffrey Dell was born in Santa Monica and grew up in both California and Oregon. He received aBA in Studio Art, with an emphasis in ceramics, from Hamline University in St. Paul MN.Subsequently, he moved into print, working as a non-degree graduate assistant at BucknellUniversity for two years, in Lewisberg, PA. He received an MFA in Printmaking at the Universityof New Mexico. Upon leaving NM, he was a Fellow for two years at the Scuola Internazionale diGrafica in Venice, Italy. Since 2000 he has beenteaching at Texas State University in SanMarcos, where he remains a professor.Jeffrey’s work is in the collection of The Blanton Museum of Art at UT Austin. He is representedby David Shelton Gallery in Houston, and previously by Art Palace Gallery andGalleri Urbane inDallas. He has exhibited in Europe, South Korea, and extensively across the US. He was awardeda solo exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia, PA, for their 90thAnnual InternationalCompetition
JUAN ESCUDERO
Juan Escudero is from Spain and has won several internationals printmaking prizes in the last five years. He builds a textured relief map of an unknown and intriguing chromatic gradient landscapes with intricate contour lines. The “map” that is created is evocative, but elusive, creating a sense of movement that alludes to something growing, retreating – powerful in its energy and scale.
JON GREENE
Jon Greene is a visual artist and a professional printmaker whose work depicts architectural and environmentalboundaries. He draws from research and personal experiences in psychoanalysis. Jon specializes inlithography, relief, and installation. He completed Tamarind Institute's Printer Training Program in 2019 andreceived an MFA from The University of Iowa in 2022. Jon has exhibited his work internationally, including atZane Bennett Contemporary Art Gallery, The Fig Bilbao International Printmaking Festival, and New York’s2023 Art on Paper fair. This past year, Jon was a resident at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, he taught as aVisiting Professor at Colorado College and printed as afine art lithographer at Petrichor Press. Jon's prints willbe included on the set of The Curse, a new Showtime television series starring Nathan Fielder and EmmaStone.
CARY HULBERT
Cary Hulbert is a multidisciplinary New York-based artist, educator, and curator. Hulbert received her MFAfrom Columbia University in 2016 and her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in 2007. She has taughtprintmaking and drawing at Columbia University and Mass Art. Currently, Hulbert is a Project Manager andPrinter at Two Palms in SoHo, NYC.Select exhibition highlights include: Bronx Museum (NYC), Fisher Landau Center (NYC), The Jewish Museum(NYC), Ortega y Gasset Projects (NYC), IPCNY (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Novi Sad),and Taimiao Art Gallery (Beijing) and the Liu Haisu Art Museum (Shanghai).
Michael Krueger
Michael Krueger works in a variety of media including, painting, drawing, printmaking, animation, and ceramics. His grounding medium is drawing, which brings emotional acumen to his process. Through mark making and invented drawing languages he creates artworks that cultivate human connections. Michael additionally has a long relationship with printmaking and has adapted print processes in his approach to other media. For the past 10 years he has fostered ways to situate traditional printmaking techniques, such as pochoir, stencil-making and engraving in his unique works in painting and drawing. Michael’s artworks through the years have been connected to narrative, mythology, counterculture, the history of art, and personal memoir. Recent works have deepened a relationship with the landscape, storytelling and evoke an emotional awareness through nuanced image making, color, drawing and paint.
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