Featured Artists

Jeff Perrott

Construction WC watercolor monotypes

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This print is a from a series of 16 watercolor monotypes related to the artist’s ‘Construction’ series of paintings. In the paintings, connected planes of color construct quasi-architectural spaces whose axonometric geometry plays with flatness and schematic depth, resisting settling into naturalized space. In the monotypes, however, the process and the geometry gets a repetitive, obsessive, calligraphic treatment, trading the more solid structure of the paintings for the restless ephemeral movement and agitated becoming of the accumulative marks. The Construction prints evoke the struggle of building a world – new spaces — from the shattered parts of the old one. tell us why we should make a purchase.

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Center Street Studio is pleased to announce the publication of Janine Wong’s duotypes, Recto Verso.

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In this color poem series, I explore color using a unique printing process I developed that produces two prints simultaneously from a double-sided printing plate. Plates are constructed with paper coated on both sides with ink, cut into strips of varying widths and lengths and woven into a geometric composition. The color strips on the front side are woven in search of a balanced and unified composition. It’s only when its printed, the back side is revealed.

Each a pair of prints is a duality: order and chance, chaos and control, conventions and invention. Each pair represents impressions from both sides of the same plate. One side of the plate is a harmonious interplay of colors, carefully composed through the lens of color theory and the dynamics of color interaction. The other side unfolds as a serendipitous result—a chance composition that embraces the dual nature of artistic creation: the intentional and the spontaneous.

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Janine Wong

Recto Verso

George Whitman

untitled (beetle 1-4)

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Anna Schuleit Haber

Sliding down the Banister

Center Street Studio is pleased to announce a new suite of four etchings by German-American artist Anna Schuleit Haber. Master printer and publisher James Stroud invited the artist to pursue a print project after seeing a series of drawings she was working on over the course of the past few years. Four motifs chosen from a larger group were newly drawn and etched into copper plates. Printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper with hand-colored chine collé sheets painted by the artist in acrylic, each set in the 'edition' of 30 will be unique. There will also be five individual Artist Proofs of each image available as well.

from the artist:

My usual studio space has several parts: paintings on the walls, drawings and prints on tables in the middle, paints and inks and dry media and other tools in-between, and books and writings on the fringes. The different parts in my studio help to keep me moving, like stations along a road. Things are in flux, swinging in and out of abstraction. I feel curious and glad in the spaces that open up in that imagined landscape, glad to follow, to find. At the center of it all — not in the center visibly, but rather central to the daily work — lie my drawings. Sometimes drawings are a way of story-making. Sometimes they remain figurative enough to be recognized as something known or remembered. Sometimes they become a form of recording.

In the printmaking studio the open ways of drawing merge for me with the linear processes of printing. Three of the etchings are of wooden figures that I found while helping to clear an old attic space. The birds, the hinged dog, and the horse emerged from the half-dark with their shapes and characters intact. The fourth etching is of my dog, who belongs with the others, bridging their world of open play with ours. Among the layers of inspiration for this project are also the life stories of toy creator Margarete Steiff and pediatrician Janusz Korczak. The notions of how to be and how to invent — of how to be in one’s inventions, and how to survive through them — are all tied into this series.

Anna Schuleit Haber, September 2023

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Markus Linnenbrink

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Center Street Studio is pleased to announce its first print project of 2023 with German born artist Markus Linnenbrink. Markus pushed our technical limits to the max during this past residency producing monotypes larger than we have ever made before at CSS. The result was a series of five 60 x 60 inch prints literally dripping with ink.

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