Atelier Four working on plates with various intaglio tools and processes
Perusing a plate covered with hard ground for etching
Daubers - for applying ink to the plate
Wiping an inked plate
Placing the paper on the plate
Adjusting the pressure
Placing the plate on the press bed
Pinning up a print to dry
The Lightner Gallery at Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York
The Cogar Gallery at Herkimer County Community College, Herkimer, New York
The Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia New York
TThe Delavan Gallery in Syracuse, New York
Bruce Muirhead is a self-defined painter/printmaker in the magic-realist mold. He was first introduced to the intaglio process in the early 1970's by his Middlebury College colleague, David Bumbeck. For the past 35 years, Bruce has been Professor of Art at Hamilton College where he teaches painting and drawing and runs the printshop. He is a longtime member of The Society of American Graphic Artists, The Copley Society of Art and The Boston Printmakers. He has exhibited his work in numerous national and international exhibitions and is in many public and private collections throughout The United States. The Amity Art Foundation, Inc. in Connecticut recently published a catalogue raisonne of his etchings.
William Salzillo, also Professor of Art at Hamilton
College, learned printmaking as a student at the Rhode Island
School of Design, and later studied lithography with Garo Antresian,
a founder of the Tammarind Institute at the University of New
Mexico. Inspired by his curatorial research as Director of Hamilton's
Emerson Gallery, Salzillo's recent prints reference a combination
of real and imagined historical events of Northern New York.
Amy Georgia Buchholz studied art at Kirkland and Hamilton Colleges where she was mentored by both Muirhead
and Salzillo. She earned her MFA at the University of Buffalo
where she was the graduate teaching assistant and studio assistant
to the Director of the Printmaking Program, Harvey Breverman.
She is a past recipient of The New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship in graphics (printmaking) and a NY State Council on
the Arts Artist-in-Residency grant. Amy's recent drypoints, based
on organic subjects, are meditative investigations of the natural
world.
Jake Muirhead also attended Hamilton College where
he majored in Painting. He earned his MFA in Printmaking at George
Mason University. Jake has exhibited his etchings and garnered
awards in numerous national and international juried print shows.
He is currently Associate Printmaker at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
in Silver Spring, Maryland. He also teaches drawing at Montgomery
College and Printmaking at The Washington Waldorf School.