Pilchuck Print Shop
July 4 - September 23, 2015
Exhibition Date: July 4 - September 23, 2015
Artists: John Buck, Dick Weiss (WD40+), Ginny Ruffner, Italo Scanga, Lino Tagliapietra
Additional Artists: Nancy Davidson, Kaitlin Becker, Oida Toika
In the Benaroya Glass Gallery, the Museum of Northwest Art is proud to present for the first time a selection of prints from Pilchuck Glass School’s Pilchuck Print Shop. Artworks were selected by co-curators Tina Aufiero, Pilchuck Artistic Director and Lisa Young, Exhibitions Director.
Printmaking with glass plates was introduced to Pilchuck in the 1980’s. Artists such as Harvey Littleton and Elizabeth Tapper have been credited with what has become a legacy studio on campus, the Pilchuck Print Shop.
Hank Murta Adams + Class, Funkadelie Hyena Holiday, Small Plates collage with pig in center
Courtesy of the Pilchuck Glass School
Painting on glass has a long history in the traditions of stained glass techniques. Pilchuck Glass School is known for forging relations with artists to further the use of glass as a medium, easily finding that they could adopt techniques from other print disciplines, creating applications unique to transferring images from glass plates.
Cappy Thompson, Untitled (Two Figures at Table), 1993
Courtesy of Pilchuck Glass School
In 1990 Elizabeth Tapper officially started the Pilchuck Print Shop with the acquisition of a press. It is still used today and has made thousands of prints by well known artists, instructors and students.
Lauren Grossman, Pretty, 2013, Artist’s Proof
Courtesy of Pilchuck Glass School
Ric Bartow, Raven, Siliograph, 2010
Courtesy of Pilchuck Glass School
Megan Biddle, Feathers, 2004, 1 of 1
Courtesy of Pilchuck Glass School