SHOP TALK

Shop Talk is a celebration of the communal spirit shared by printmakers. Not one artist or studio is an island. As printers, we rely on one another for wisdom, inspiration, progression of skill, and camaraderie. The historic Portland neighborhood of Louisville is the city’s oldest and has long been a place full of artists, musicians, travelers, and craftspeople passing through on the Ohio River. Those port-town days of Portland connected resident and traveling artists near and far for collaboration, distribution, and more, and in celebration of this spirit exhibit curator Shannon Delahanty asked Louisville printmakers to pick an out-of-town “print pal” to be shown alongside them. Shop Talk connects printers from nearby and far away to showcase diverse techniques, subjects, and perspectives to honor artists’ contributions to their communities.

Nick Baute (Kentucky)
Letterpress Items Printed at Hound Dog Press
Letterpress

Kala’i Blakemore (Kentucky)
Sending and Taking
Monotype

Ben Blount (Illinois)
Pop It!
Letterpress and screenprint

Beech Grove Press (Kentucky)
Letterpress Items Printed at Portland Museum

Letterpress

Melissa Blount (Illinois)
Free Your Mind
Letterpress print

Zach Clark (California)
2023 Postcards
Risograph with wooden slats

Aaron Coleman (Indiana)
Survivor of the Great American Autoclave
Lithograph screenprint

Susanna Crum (Kentucky)
Watershed Globe: Gores I.
Cyanotype

Shannon Delahanty (Kentucky)
Red Setter’s Supper
Image transfer, collage, graphite, and grease pencil

Whose Room?
Image transfer and printed collage

Quarry Summer Report
Image transfer, monotype, collage, graphite, risograph

We Have Liftoff!
Image transter, monotype, collage, graphite, grease pencil

Felt Plucky, Sorta Unlucky
Image transter, monotype, collage, and graphite

Robert Finkel (Alabama)
“Ukelele” by Sandra Beasley
Two color letterpress on 110 lb cover cranes lettra

“Articulation” by Natasha Trethewey
Two color letterpress on 110 lb cover cranes lettra

“I Got Heaven” by Garret Hongo
Two color letterpress on 110 lb cover cranes lettra

Lucas Keown (Kentucky)
Ice Tower Old Yard
Intaglio

Greenhouse
Intaglio

Annie Klein (Iowa)
Supersonic Fluid Mechanic (After Ernst Mach)
Toner transfer, oil-based monotype, etching with sugar lift and soft ground

EVPL (Kentucky)
Corn Cob Jelly
Relief on recycled bedsheets

Erin Martinez (California)
Missing
Screenprint

Patrick Masterson (Kentucky)
Vinylthon 2024
Letterpress and relief print

D.A. Meeks will Sing More Slowly Than the Hummingbird
Letterpress and relief print

Neon Moon Tattoo
Letterpress and relief print

Taryn McMahon (Ohio)
Dunkard Creek
Lithograph

Adrienne Miller (Kentucky)
Investigating Above and Below
Trace monotype and print collage

Mapping the Invisible
Trace monotype and print collage

Edie Overturf (Oregon)
Self Help
Linocut and screenprint

Forrest Pass (Kentucky)
M. Series Triptych
Aquatint Monoprints

Rudy Salgado (Kentucky)
Distilling Apparatus
Stone lithograph, acrylic paint

Lindsay Schmittle (Pennsylvania)
Deciduous Delight Triptych
Letterpress printed with handset metal ornaments and border rule and carved MDF, oak plywood and torn chipboard blocks

Danny Seim (Kentucky) & Tyler Stout (Washington)
Collaborative Screenprint Collection
Screenprints

Rachel Singel (Kentucky)
Bat
Intaglio on handmade Johnson grass and abaca paper

Zach Stensen (Wisconsin)
Jackson Hole
Lithography and ball-point pen on paper

Brad Vetter (Kentucky)
Leave it Better/Heartwood
Letterpress print

Katherine Watts (Indiana)
Wabi-Sabi
Monotype print with chine colle and mixed media