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.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
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