Above image: AV Pike: "Balls". Stencil monotype prints, laser cut and embossed for folding, 2026
The month of June features two PATT members’ work: AV Pike, and Catharina Marlowe. The pieces in the exhibit range from variations of prints on paper, printing on fabric, folding, and sculpting printed paper. Edges have been cut and boarders expanded using both printmaking and at times conventional and fabrication tools.
Artist Statement by AV Pike: Looking back over my art making, I find I repeat forms, shapes, lines, and often have a visual symbolic vocabulary. My art is about the world around me, the stars and universe or at times to birds and trees. But again, there is that repetition. Early work also has that similar language, repeating now and current work. The other side of my art making is my love of process– of the tools and fabrication – the cutting of edges. So, I love the camera, the scanner, the software, the laser, vinyl cutter, water jet, and CNC router. Always remembering that these tools are just hammers. You can build a house with a rock, but why not use a hammer. In the end, of course there is always my hand and my crafting. My printmaking. No matter the tools in the process, I want my hand in applying the line, be using a press, screen, or just hand printing.
Artist statement by Catharina Marlowe: “Hydrangea-in-Jar” began as a digital photograph taken in my home studio. From the digital negative, I made a platinum print—an early photographic process in which paper is brushed with platinum solution and contact printed from the negative—as well as a platinum-over-color print. In printmaking, this layered use of the same matrix is called a “double drop.” I then made intaglio and relief photopolymer plates from the same digital file and experimented with color by combining the two processes through double drops and overprinting. These explorations resulted in a varied edition of nine prints. This exhibit includes an archival pigment inkjet print, a platinum print, and a platinum-over-color pigment print. The varied edition (V/E) “Hydrangea-in-a-Jar” emerged from these experiments with color inks and double printing using photopolymer plates.
Credits:
PATT