The Printmakers II
Spotlight:
The Printmakers II
Exhibition: August 17, 2023 - February 17, 2024
Featured Artists:
Peter Baczek
Ali Blum
Jessica Dunne
Ellen Heck
Geneviève L’Heureux
Deborah Sibony
Artist Reception and Trunk Show:
Saturday, December 2nd, 12-3pm
Catalog designed by Michael Yochum
Arc Gallery © 2023
Beginning in 2023, Arc is 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
Peter Baczek
website:
www.baczekstudio.com
email:
pbaczek@earthlink.net
Throughout our lives we modify our living and
working space to fit our needs. We are constantly
surrounded by an ever-changing landscape of
mood and color that I hope to capture. These
urban landscapes have always been a part of
my vision. I choose to depict cityscapes through
a more refined interpretation of the composition
before me. The broad mass of walls, roads, and
sky establish areas of color and light that can
create a certain mood, and act as compositional
components in the overall work of art. By
expanding my use of shadows, texture, and light,
the finished works grow in both scope and
spectrum to better realize that vision.
Peter Baczek received his BA in Art with a concentration in Printmaking from San Jose State University in 1970. Over
the years he has been included in national and international print competitions, receiving numerous awards. He has
participated in many group shows in galleries and museums, including the Berkeley Art Center, Triton Museum, Tokyo
Art Museum, CooperHewitt Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tucson Museum of Art and the California Palace
of the Legion of Honor. He is in several permanent collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, Tucson Museum,
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Turner Print Museum, and the Library of Congress. He is a member of the
California Society of Printmakers, The Boston Printmakers, The Los Angeles Printmaking Society, and The Society of
American Graphic Artists.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2023
North American Print Biennial, Boston Printmakers, Boston MA
Triton Salon, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (Award)
California Printmakers: Tradition & Innovation, Arts Benicia, Benecia CA
52nd Annual Juried CompetitionInt’l Paperworks, Minot State University, Minot ND (Award)
60 Square Inches XX, Juried Small Print Exhibition, Perdue University, West Lafayette IN
2022
Brand 50: Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper, Brand Library, Glendale CA
38th Bradley International Print & Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria IL
35th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles LA
89th Annual Juried Exhibition, Hudson Valley Art Association, Old Lyme CT (Award)
2021
PaperWest, 3rd National Works on Paper Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT
Awagami International Mini Print Exhibition, Awagami Japan (Award)
27th Annual America’s All Media, Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University, Minot ND (2 Awards)
32nd Nat’l Drawing & Print Competition, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore MD
2020
33rd Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles LA
Under Pressure: National Printmaking Exhibition, Lincoln Center, Colorado Springs CO
31st National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore MD
Americas Paperworks 2020, Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University, Minot ND
2019
Triton Museum 2D Competition & Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (Award)
Ink & Clay 44, Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo CA
Bay Area Prints, Compound Gallery, Oakland CA
26th Parkside National Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
47th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville TX (Award)
2018
Hot Off The Press, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock CA (Best of Show)
Ink & Print, West Coast Printmakers, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay OR
60th Juried Exhibition, The Haggin Museum, Stockton CA (Award)
2017
70th North American Print Biennial, Boston Printmakers, Boston MA
Pacific Prints, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA (Award)
Pressing On-Contemporary Printmaking, Richmond Art Center, Richmond CA (juried exhibiton)
Panoply of Prints, National Print Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, CA (Award)
2016 Artist in Residence, Gruenwald Press, California Society of Printmakers, SF, CA
2nd Annual Hand Pulled Prints, The Current Practice in Printmaking, Site, Brooklyn, NY
Innervisions: New Prints/Summer, International Print Center, New York City NY
Into the Night: Modern & Contemporary Art & the Nocturne Tradition, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ
Americas Paperworks, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot ND (Award)
Peter Baczek
Flying Buttress
aquatint
15” x 12”, image size; 25” x 21” framed
edition 5/50
$500 framed; $350 unframed
Peter Baczek
The Turn Around
lithograph
16” x 12”, image size; 25” x 21” framed
edition 5/60
$450 framed; $300 unframed
Peter Baczek
Slow Curve
lithograph
16” x 18”, image size; 28” x 29” framed
edition 3/30
$500 framed; $350 unframed
Peter Baczek
NX2 Laurel
aquatint
11” x 14”, image size
edition 22/75
$400 unframed
Ali Blum
website:
www.aliblumart.com/
email:
alexandrablum68@gmail.com
My interior world of memories of childhood,
books, songs, and stories steer my work.
In this exhibit I continue with my Nature Makes
a Comeback series with garden and seasonal
spirits. The environment and natural world
are increasingly central to my work. Folktales
and myths have always been integral to my
understanding of the world. Overtime, hybrid
creatures and genetic engineering have
blended with the spiritual world of my childhood
and have resulted in these elemental guardian
figures. Printmaking is my artmaking home. I
start with a monoprint and then add elements
in screen printing, block printing, stamping, and
gouache to create atmospheric layers that
represent time and the finding of narratives and characters through process, chance,
and intention
I received my BFA from Cornell University in Painting and my MFA in Printmaking from
Washington University in St Louis. I have had residencies at Curtiduria Print shop
in Oaxaca, Mexico, the De Young Museum in San Francisco, and San Francisco
Heritage Doolan Larson Building. I actively exhibit and select shows include The de
Young Museum, 2023 Hearts in San Francisco General Hospital, Cornell University
Hartell Gallery, San Francisco Public Library, Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca, The
Mission Cultural Center, and The San Francisco Jewish Library. I enjoy teaching which
informs and inspires my artmaking and select workshops and live art demonstrations
include SFMOMA, De Young Museum, The Academy of Sciences, and The Jewish
Museum. My work is in public and private collections
EDUCATION
1996
M.F.A., Printmaking, Washington University, St. Louis MO
1992
B.F.A., Painting, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Wild Life, Marin Headlands Visitor Center, Marin CA
2018
Endangered, Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids, San Francisco CA
2012
Weather, Paxton Gate Gallery, San Francisco CA
2010
Silhouettes, de Young Museum Artist in Residence Exhibit, San Francisco CA
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Solo Mujeres, ,The Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco CA
2020
Women Against Climate Change, Puerto Alegre, San Francisco CA
2019
Recognition: Labor Meets Art in Explorations of Identity and Social Justice, The Hilton, San Francisco CA
”La Frontera, Jewish Community Center, San Francisco CA
She/Her, Paxton Gate Curiosities for Kids, San Francisco CA
2018
The Dreaming, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco CA
2015
Exhibicion Colectiva, Museo de la Filatelia de Oaxaca, Oaxaca Mexico
Exhibicion Colectiva, Curtiduria Prinshop, Oaxaca Mexico
2014
Facing East” & Radio Mutiny, “Eviction Times, Jewish Library, San Francisco CA
2013
New Works, Hotel Biron, San Francisco CA
2012
Mission Art, Alley Cat Gallery, San Francisco CA
2011
In Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
2010
Grafica de SF, CA, Taller de Artes Plastica, San Francisco CA
SELECT ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES
2015
Curtiduria Printshop, Oaxaca, Mexico
2011
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (Artist in Residence)
2010 Nahual Rojo Printshop, Oaxaca, Mexico (Guest Artist)
2004
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (Artist in Residence)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Library of Congress, Washington DC
TEACHING
1997 - present
Drew School, San Francisco CA
1996-2007
Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco CA
1996-2000
LEAP... Imagination and Learning, San Francisco, CA
MEMBERSHIPS
2001 - present
California Society of Printmakers
Ali Blum
Spring
mixed media monoprint with stamping, screen printing, and gouache
30” x 22”
$1,025 framed
Ali Blum
Summer
mixed media monoprint with stamping, screen printing, and gouache
30” x 22”
$1,025 framed
Ali Blum
Endangered
mixed media monoprint with stamping, screen printing, and gouache
30” x 22”
$800 unframed
Ali Blum
Love Letter
mxed media monoprint with screen printing, linoleum, and transfers
15” x 11”
$250 unframed
Jessica Dunne
website:
www.jessicadunne.com
email:
info@jessicadunne.com
Years ago, while driving down the highway at night in
my hometown, I was overwhelmed with nostalgia for my
childhood. I then realized there was a brownout and–
with all the streetlights extinguished–the dark road was
as I had experienced it as a child, before we replaced
stars with sodium-vapor bulbs. Over the years, on visits
to my childhood home, I had been incensed by the new
three-story beach “mansions” and tee-shirt dealerships,
yet had taken little notice of the street lighting that had
altered the nature of night itself. The dark highway was
a visual prompt into a memory of my past, something
that rarely happens, especially in contrast to the constant
reminders of other times through taste, sound and smell.
This is how I began my ongoing project, an exploration of homo sapiens’ equally
ongoing tussle with the dark.
I call myself a painter but I make spit-bite aquatints too. “Spit-bite” means biting the
image with a combination of acid and saliva directly into a rosin-coated copper plate.
The copper becomes the matrix for several identical prints--an edition. I find the fluid
and painterly results worth the unsavory process.
EDUCATION
San Francisco State University, B.A. in Fine Arts, San Francisco CA
SELECTED AWARDS
1997-8 Foundation Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York NY
1995
Foundation Grant, The Ruth Chenven Foundation, New York NY
1991
The James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking, The San Francisco Foundation and Kala Institute, San Francisco CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
FourSquared XIII, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA
2021
Spotlight: Jessica Dunne, Vedder Price, San Francisco CA (Arc Fine Arts Consulting)
2017
Jessica Dunne, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento CA
2016
Jessica Dunne, Commonweal Gallery, Bolinas CA
2006
Double Yellow Line, Texas A&M University, College Station TX
2003
Jessica Dunne: Paintings and Prints. Fresno Art Museum, Fresno CA (catalogue)
The Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield MN
2002
The Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA (now the New Museum Los Gatos)
1998
Jessica Dunne—Monotypes and Aquatints, The Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA (catalogue)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Space: Lifestyle & Landscape After WWII, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga CA
2020
One Night in California, The Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield CA
2016
Djerassi: A Legacy, Ascent Capital Management, San Francisco CA
2014
Print Facets, The Curator Gallery, New Yor, NY
2013
Backwards is Forwards: Layer and Impact in Printmaking, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos CA
2011
New Prints 2011/Summer, International Print Center New York, New York NY
2007
Town and Country: Jessica Dunne and Louis LaBrie, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga CA
2000
Surf Trip, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA
SELECTED ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCIES
2020
MonsonArts, Monson ME
2019
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA (also 2013, 2007, 2005, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013)
2016 Djerassi Exchange Fellowship, Oberpfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
2007
The Ucross Foundation, Clearmont WY (also 1994, 2003, 2004)
1999
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha NE
1997
Djerassi Resident Artist Artists Program, Woodside CA
1996
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco CA
The Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
The Library of Congress, Washington DC
The New York Public Library, New York NY
The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA
Stanford Special Collections, Stanford CA
University of California at Berkeley, Special Collections Library, Berkeley CA
University of Santa Cruz, Special Collections Library, Santa Cruz CA
Jessica Dunne
Speed
spit-bite aquatint
4” x 5” plate size, 14” x 13” framed
$790 framed
Jessica Dunne
On -ramp
spit-bite aquatint
6” x 9” plate size, 16” x 18” framed
$800 framed
Jessica Dunne
U Haul
spit-bite aquatint
4” x 6” plate size, 14” x 13” framed
$800 framed