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Bad Impressions: Prints and Drawings by Don Colley

In his own words: “Born an Air Force brat in 1954. Spent the first 16 years as a wandering gypsy. Decided in my third year of college to give the art thing a try as parasitology wasn’t working out so good. Exhibiting paintings, prints, and sketchbooks in earnest since 1983. Backed into the occasional illustration gig and am now, after a couple decades of pondering societal woes and coulrophobic parallels, working primarily on visual journaling, urban sketching while returning to a nomadic lifestyle as pencil salesman.” In 2012, as one of Faber-Castell’s celebrated instructors, Colley led an illustrated road-trip across America, which covered 11 cities where he held drawing and illustration demos using Faber-Castell products. Don will be in Philadelphia demonstrating the Faber-Castell products late October. Dates and locations will be given as soon as his schedule is finalized. This exhibition will include preliminary drawings and prints made at C. R. Ettinger Studio as well as Lithographs and relief prints made at other studios.

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blockadia.sim is an archeological study focusing on the island of Blockadia, a multi-racial organizing and resource hub run and operated by and for people of color. We lost contact with the island on October 2nd, 2017 and need your help tracking it down!

Join us February 9th at Cindi Royce Ettinger Studio to learn more and see artifacts, artworks and simulations from the region.

Support for this program is provided by the Cindi Royce Ettinger Fellowship and Second State Press.

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Matrix: Ed McHughReception November 10, 2018 5:30-7:30 Trained as a painter, printmaker and sculptor, Philadelphia artist Ed McHugh has recently completed a group of large scale etchings combined with monoprinting. Each work is unique, transcending the concept of a traditional edition series. The final prints consist of different matrixes/grids which he uses to make aquatints or open bite etchings. The plates are then printed over monoprints or hand colored with iron oxide after printing. This unique process adds depth, movement, and color.

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NOIR

C R Ettinger  Studio is pleased to present in the gallery a collection of black and white prints by 16 artists spanning four decades. The artists include: Bo Bartlett, Astrid Bowlby, Francesco Clemente, Donald O. Colley, David Fertig, Larry Francis, Charles Grumbling, Peter Haarz, Tom Judd, Robert Andrew Parker, Mark Rice, Judith Schaecter, Bill Scott, Jürgen Stimpfig, Ivanco Talevski,  Rochelle Toner. Please join us for a reception Friday September 14 from 6:00 to 8:00 in the gallery.

The C.R. Ettinger Studio Gallery features exhibitions of prints and printmaking related works. The gallery has irregular hours (usually open from noon till 6:00 Monday through Friday), but always best to contact before visiting or take your chances. Also open by appointment 7 days a week. C.R. Ettinger Studio 2215 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19146610.585.4084 www.crettinger.com

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Into the Fold, an exhibition of mokuhanga prints by international artists

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Into The Fold

cettingerstudio@gmail.com Into the Fold, an exhibition of mokuhanga prints by international artists

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Six international artists will showcase their new mokuhanga works at C.R. Ettinger Studio Gallery in Philadelphia, PA which opens on Friday, March 30 at 6-8 p.m. This exhibition titled, Into the Fold, is the result of an ongoing creative conversation where artists respond to themes of folding/unfolding, portability, lineage, and community using mokuhanga as the primary medium. Artists Katie Baldwin (Huntsville, AL), Sarah Hulsey (Somerville, MA), Fuko Ito (Lawrence, KS), Mariko Jesse (Tokyo, Japan), Yoonmi Nam (Lawrence, KS), and Mia O (Tokyo, Japan) are connected through teaching and learning mokuhanga in the United States and in Japan. The term and the process of Mokuhanga (Japanese for woodblock printmaking) has been adopted by contemporary artists working with the tools and materials associated with traditional Japanese water-based woodblock printing. These artists, along with many contemporary artists working in mokuhanga, trace a lineage of learning to a handful of Japanese printers, carvers and artists connected through the Nagasawa Art Park and MI-LAB artist residencies located in Japan. Katie Baldwin’s work in woodblock and letterpress is grounded in the language of narrative, investigating storytelling through text and image. She is an Assistant Professor in Printmaking and Book Arts at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Sarah Hulsey creates artist books and prints that utilize visual possibilities inherent in language. She holds degrees from Harvard, MIT and University of the Arts, and currently lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts. Fuko Ito’s work in drawings and prints playfully explores feelings of vulnerability and sensations of discomfort informed by her cross-cultural upbringing. She was born and raised in Kobe, Japan and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Kansas. Mariko Jesse was born in Japan, spent her childhood in Hong Kong, and was educated in the UK. Her international experiences shapes the subject matter of her work, as she express ideas of being caught between different cultures. She currently works as an illustrator in Tokyo, Japan. Yoonmi Nam is drawn to the man-made spaces and objects that suggest a contradicting sense of time that is both temporary and lasting. She was born and raised in Seoul, Korea and is an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas. Mia O, inspired by calligraphy, works as a painter and printmaker to create images that embrace layering and mark-making. She was born and raised in Seoul, Korea and currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition dates are March 30 - April 11, 2018. The opening reception is on Friday, March 30th, from 6 - 8 p.m. The C.R. Ettinger Studio Gallery is located at 2215 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146. This event is free and open to the public. The C. R. Ettinger Studio Gallery features exhibitions of prints and printmaking related works. The gallery has irregular hours (usual open from noon till 6PM Monday - Friday), but always best to contact before visiting or take your changes. Also open by appointment 7 days a week.

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Exhibition opening: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Saturday, January 6th Exhibition dates: January 6th to February 5th

Interior Flora is a show of new works by Katie Kaplan at C.R Ettinger Gallery. For the exhibition, Kaplan focuses on creating sculptural, printed textiles in relief and silkscreen, that evoke private spaces of fantasy and domesticity, viewed through a queer femme lens. Within the works is a collection of symbols and references drawing from mythology, art history, western esotericism, religious iconography, herbalism, and personal narrative. Her practice intends to elevate and explore feminine power and inner beauty.  

Katie Kaplan is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on exploring printmaking at the intersection of sculpture, fiber arts, photography and video. Kaplan is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,  currently living in Philadelphia, where she works as a Teaching Artist.   Recent accomplishments include completion of the Post-Graduate Apprentice Training Program at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the CRE Fellowship at Second State Press, a project based grant from the Three Rivers Community Foundation, and the upcoming January 2018 Denbo Fellowship at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center . Kaplan received a BFA with Honors and Outstanding Merit in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2011.

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Fold: Ten Conversations is an exhibition at C.R. Ettinger Studio that expands on printmaking’s roots in communal production and its role as a vehicle for creative relationships. It features Ivanco Talevski’s collaborations and interactions with ten fellow artists connected to Philadelphia: Jane Irish, Sarah McEneaney, Matt Neff, Didier William, Chad Andrews, Joan Curran, Vasko Dukovski, mouth, Illya Mousavijad, and the late Hitoshi Nakazato. Throughout, Talevski recognizes that printmaking processes—both traditional and nontraditional—bring people together to exchange ideas imaginatively.

Exhibition opening: 6-9PM Friday, Nov. 10th Exhibition dates: Nov.12th - Dec.22th

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Bonnie Levinthal Earthview 21 (detail), ink on paper, 2017 Press Release: C. R. Ettinger Studio

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Bonnie Levinthal / There and Somewhere

September 5th to October 18th, 2017 The reception will be Saturday September 9th, 2017 from 6:00 to 8:00

C.R. Ettinger Studio is pleased to present THERE AND SOMEWHERE, an exhibition of prints and print based work by Bonnie Levinthal. Bonnie Levinthal’s work is inspired by her travel to isolated northern locations and greatly informed by aerial photography, satellite images and maps.

While her work is linked to the places she visits it is not characterized by depicting any one particular place, but rather by “re-presenting” images that reflect her emotions and life situations. The visual language she has created melds observation and memory reflecting an experience that exists somewhere between the real and the imagined. Reflections, re-presentations, imaginings... Working with intaglio techniques, hand-coloring and suminagashi (a Japanese marbleizing technique), Bonnie creates work that is guided by her research in depicting the mysterious underlying structure and relationship of the physical landscape, along with patterns, colors and phenomena associated with

humankind’s impact on the earths ecology. Her work establishes a “viewpoint” whereby she challenges us to further consider ways one’s perspective might offer unexpected reflection and insight. For further information www.bonnielevinthal.com or contact Cindi Ettinger crettingerstudio@gmail.com

About the Artist: Bonnie Levinthal (Philadelphia, PA) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania State University and her BFA from the University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art). She has shown her work nationally in Philadelphia, New York, Washington D.C. among other locations and internationally in Havana, Cuba, Toronto, Canada and Melbourne, Australia. Levinthal has received awards for her work, including a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant and fellowships at Yaddo, The Millay Colony of the Arts and the Nes Artist Residency in Iceland. Her work is collected in numerous public and private collections in the United States. Levinthal is currently an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Penn State Abington.

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Paul Cava / Variations / June 3 – July 15, 2017

From June 3rd to July 15th, 2017,  C.R. Ettinger Studio is pleased to present Paul Cava /Variations, an exhibition of photo-based work.  The exhibition will open the evening of Saturday, June 3rd, 2017 with a reception 6:00-8:00 pm.

Since the late 1970’s Paul Cava’s art has been involved with the fusion of photography and non-photographic media, such as painting, drawing and various forms of printmaking.  Using his own work as well as found anonymous photographs, Cava combines images both manually and digitally with paper and collage elements.

Much has been said about the sensual and poetic nature of his imagery but the purpose of this exhibit is to shed some light on the artist’s practice – the various expressions, permutations and manifestations that a singular photographic image can potentially propagate.

Most photographic practice extracts a singular image from the continuium of life. Cava’s approach is to extract the continuium from the singular image. Context is a signifier in Cava’s collages and allows him to reposition emotionally, and psychologically in regard to the meaning of a particular image .

In music, variation is a way of organizing a composition by taking a melody or phrase and then repeating it in several different ways. Similarly this exhibit examines the ways Cava explores the various possibilities of meaning in his work.

Paul Cava has exhibited paintings, drawings and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the US and Europe, and his work is included in private and public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, The San Diego Museum of Art, The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and others.

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T H E  N O B L E  S O VL D I E R.                   O R  A  C O N T R A CT              B R O K E N,   J U S T L Y                  R E V E N G E D  A                                  T R A G E D Y.

 Etchings By David Fertig

David Fertig’s portfolio of 70 etchings now in production at the C.R. Ettinger Studio is based on the artist’s fascination with the Napoleonic Wars, battle scenes and everyday moments from that time. Although the images, medium and style are based in history and tradition, they have a contemporary quality due to his drawing style of loose gestural lines that create high contrasts of abstract shapes. He uses the subject of war as a metaphor to illustrate human emotions we all feel and can relate to.

David Fertig studied at Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), and Chicago Art Institute. He has been represented by The Graham Gallery in New York, The Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco and has also shown in Canada and Abroad.

To raise funds to complete these editions we are doing a promotion to sell various proofs of the first 20 prints of the portfolio at a reduced price. Please join David and me Sunday, December 3rd for this opportunity and help participate in our promotion to complete this ambitious project. Other work By David Fertig will also be on display and available for sale. For more information please contact Cindi Ettinger at cettinger@verizon.net

The C.R. Ettinger Studio Gallery features exhibitions of prints and printmaking related works. The gallery has irregular hours (usually open from noon till 6:00 Monday through Friday), but always best to contact before visiting or take your chances. Also open by appointment 7 days a week.

C.R. Ettinger Studio 2215 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 610.585.4084 www.crettinger.com