The Printmakers IV
Spotlight:
The Printmakers IV
Exhibition: November 9th, 2024 - July 12th, 2025
Featured Artists:
Elizabeth Addison
Daisy Eneix
Theresa Giammattei
Marc Ellen Hamel
Robynn Smith
Charles Stinson
Artist Reception and Trunk Show:
Saturday, March 22nd, 12-3pm
Catalog designed by Michael Yochum
Arc Gallery © 2024
Beginning in 2023, Arc has been dedicating its Spotlight Gallery & Office to a
rotating exhibition of Bay Area printmakers. This more intimate space lends
itself very well to exhibiting prints, which are ofter best viewed close-up.
We will also have some unframed works in the flat files by each of the
exhibiting artists.
Arc is dedicated to showcasing and promoting emerging and established
artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since establishing Arc in 2010,
the Gallery and Project Gallery have provided exhibition opportunities for
over 1000 mostly local artists. Our artist studios are the working home for
15 outstanding local artists. Our goal has been to foster community; provid
ing an arc between our vibrant Bay Area art scene and its art enthusiasts,
collectors and businesses.
Michael Yochum, Curator
Arc Gallery & Fine Arts
415-298-7969
for purchases or consulting services, please email arcgallerysf@gmail.com
Curator’s Statement
Elizabeth Addison
website:
www.elizabethaddison.com/
IG:
@eaddison329
Hills
I record images and impressions on daily walks
and transform them into Mandalas of ‘the one… the
universe.’ These range from examining California’s
native flora and waterways to the consistency in
nature’s forms and environmental equity. My Hills
series is a visual expression of love for the Berkeley
Hills. They have their moods and messages and
communicate something worth contemplating each
day.
These hybrid prints are created with original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype on
100% cotton rag paper.
Elizabeth Addison
Grounded
original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype on 100% cotton rag paper
16” x 16” framed (12” x 12” image), EV 2/2
$600
Between Heaven & Earth
original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype on 100% cotton rag paper
16” x 16” framed (12” x 12” image), EV 2/2
$600
Elizabeth Addison
Elizabeth Addison
Breath
original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype
on 100% cotton rag paper
16” x 16” framed (12” x 12” image), EV 2/2
$600
Passage
original digital imagery, stencil, and monotype
on 100% cotton rag paper
16” x 16” framed (12” x 12” image), EV 2/2
$600
Daisy Eneix
website:
www.missionartists.org/artists/daisyeneix
IG:
@nightdreamingdaisy
Drawing from the fertile ground of mythology, folklore
and fairy tales, these hand-carved images explore
themes of liminality, intimacy and transformation.
Deities and archetypes of old are remembered and
reinvented, their presence an incitement to enter a
more visceral and mystical world of knowing and being.
Daisy Eneix
The Queen of Diamonds
linocut
15” x 15” framed (12” x 12” image)
$300
Daisy Eneix
Encounter
linocut
15” x 15” framed (12” x 12” image)
$300
Daisy Eneix
Ishtar Reborn
linocut
20” x 16” framed (15” x 11.5” image)
$320
The Night Apothecary
2-color viscosity linocut
20” x 16” framed (13.5” x 11” image)
$340
Theresa Giammattei
website:
www.uncommonegress.com
IG:
@t.giammattei.art
My work invites one to explore the quirkiness of the human
condition. Much of the imagery is drawn from my childhood,
freely roaming, catching bugs, and creating forts in the
woods of upstate New York and the Berkshires. These hand
drawn monotypes are part of my current Organic/Mechanic
series in which I ruminate on biophilia (love of nature) vs.
biophobia (the fear of nature) and how they affect the
way we reshape our environments. We use tools to alter
and sterilize our surroundings. But we need to fix these
tendencies, not only to bring back the wild, but also to
re-expose ourselves, as well as the next generations, to
the wonders and diversity of nature. We must look past
our initial squeamishness and get closer to examine the
beauty of the unfamiliar.
Theresa Giammattei
Gold Star
hand modified monotype with colored pencil and gold leaf
30” x 22.5” framed; (22” x 15” image)
$900
Theresa Giammattei
Clipped Wings
hand modified monotype with colored pencil
30” x 22.5” framed; (22” x 15” image)
$900
Theresa Giammattei
Terraforming
hand modified monotype with colored pencil
30” x 22.5” framed; (22” x 15” image)
$900
Marc Ellen Hamel
website:
www.marcellenhamel.com
IG:
@markiehamel
In this series I explore balance and symmetry
using shapes, color, and layering. Using the
multi-drop technique, I start each print with a
background color and oval areas blotted out,
then add contrasting shapes and colors in a
number of layers, working quickly and intuitively,
to reach the final composition. The oval shapes
offer a sense of floating, or of piled rock shapes,
while the linear shapes provide interruption and
contrast. The intense colors and varying shapes
create an atmosphere brimming with activity. I
was initially inspired by wooden cairn sculptures
of George Tsutakawa, an artist whose work I saw
throughout Seattle in my youth and the series
grew and changed from there.
Marc Ellen Hamel
Jazz Club
Monoprint
25” x 19” framed
$500
Marc Ellen Hamel
In The Half Light
Monoprint
25” x 19” framed
$500
Marc Ellen Hamel
Keep on the Sunny Side
Monoprint
25” x 19” framed
$500
Robynn Smith
website:
www.robynnsmith.com
IG:
@blue_mouse_studios
Commuting to Monterey from Santa
Cruz brought me through Elkhorn
Slough three times a week. The
landscape was both constant and ever
changing. The Slough witnessed thirty
years of my life, and I watched it in
wonder through seasonal changes,
earthquakes,
changing
migration
patterns, drought and flood. These
prints
walk
the
line
between
representation
and
abstraction,
photography and printmaking.