Print Fair Artist Profile #27: Gloria Huet

Name:  Gloria Huet
Website:  http://www.gloriahuet.com
Education:  BFA from SJSU in 2009, currently pursuing MFA at SJSU Reside in Fremont, CA
Making works on paper since 2004
Preferred printmaking process:  monotype
Most recent exhibition:  Three-artists group show at SJSU Art Dept. in Feb. 2011
Three words to describe my works: geometric, raw, movement
What everyone should know about printmaking:  The printmaking process involves an intimate balance between control and innovation.
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be an opera singer
Cats or Dogs? cats

See more of Gloria’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1,  from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #26: Sieglinde Van Damme

Name: Sieglinde Van Damme
Website url: http://www.studiosieg.com
Education: Master In Economic Sciences, currently working on my MFA at SJSU
Reside in: San Jose, CA
Making works on paper since I discovered that video artists must go crazy if they only work on a computer!
Preferred printmaking process: photo-polymer intaglio
Most recent exhibition:  last week
Three words to describe your work: photographic, ambiguous, layered
What everyone should know about printmaking: the going is tough but the end is SO liberating!
If I wasn’t an artist, I’d be totally unhappy …
Cats or Dogs? Sigh, neither …

See more of Sieglinde’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1,  from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #24: Vladimir Sepetov

Name: Vladimir Sepetov
Website url: Working on it!
Education: About to graduate Harker High, Class of 2011
Reside in: Santa Cruz Mountains, CA
Making works on paper since: 2010
Preferred printmaking process: Monotype and silk screen
Most recent exhibition:  AP Studio Art Exhibition 2011
Three words to describe your work: geometry, words, me
What everyone should know about printmaking: Process, process, process.
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: A chef or a unicorn.
Cats or Dogs? Catz

See more of Vladimir’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Saturday, April 30,  from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #22: Sydell Lewis

Name: Sydell Lewis
Website url:www.sydellart.com
Education: Cooper Union Art School, ( painting major) NY, University of Michigan ( B.S. in Chemistry)
Reside in: Sunnyvale
Making works on paper since: 1980
Preferred printmaking process: acrylic monotype
Most recent exhibition: “Robert Allen Fine Art Gallery, Sausalito, CA “Abstract Painting by Selected Gallery Artists Nov-Dec. 2010
Three words to describe your work: complex, abstract, colorful
What everyone should know about printmaking: It requires thinking in reverse, and preplanning
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: a ballroom dancer
Cats or Dogs? Plants

See more of Sydell’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1,  from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #20: Liz Maxwell

Name: Liz Maxwell
Website:http://www.lizmaxwell,com
Education: UC Berkeley 1976, followed by about 10 years evening, weekend, and summer sessions at CCAC Oakland
Reside in : Oakland
Making works on paper since: about 1980
Preferred printmaking process: monotype, mixed media
Most recent exhibition: Arts on Fire XV, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica
Three words to describe your work: Color, symbolic abstraction
What everyone should know about printmaking: Try it! Nothing like it!
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: wanting to be one
Cats or Dogs? Cats!

See more of Liz Maxwell’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Saturday, April 30 from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #18: Michael Cutlip

Name: Michael Cutlip
Website url:  http://www.michaelcutlip.com
Education: BA Studio Arts (painting)
Reside in: Berkeley CA
Making works on paper since: 1996
Preferred printmaking process: Monotype
Most recent exhibition: Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael CA / Solo Exhibition, March 2011
Three words to describe your work: Spontaneous, humorous, painterly
What everyone should know about printmaking: Try it!!
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: a Super Hero
Cats or Dogs? Dogs!!!

See more of Michael’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse on Sunday, May 1 from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #17: Andy Muonio

Name: Andy Muonio
Website: muonio.com
Education: AA Illustration, Evergreen Valley College, San Jose, BS Graphic Design/Illustration, SJSU, BFA Pictorial Art, SJSU, MFA Pictorial Art, SJSU
Reside in: Home, Mountain View, CA; Studio: San José’s Japan Town
Making works on paper: Illustration: 1990 – 2000; Printmaking (lithography, intaglio, monotype, serigraphy): 2000 – today
Preferred printmaking process: Monotype; Lithography (if I had a litho press)
Most recent exhibition(*solo show): Paintings and Works on Paper,*Cañada College, Redwood City, CA; Main Theatre & Gallery, November 8th – December 7th 2010
Three words to describe your work: Painterly Figurative Expressive
What everyone should know about printmaking: The monotype process does not start with an etched plate while the monoprint process does (or some other reproducible matrix).
If I wasn’t a printmaker (or painter, sculpture, photographer, videographer, art historian, art educator, art critic, illustrator ), I’d be: an Archeologist

See more of Andy’s prints at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Saturday, April 30 from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #15: Donna Orme

Name: Donna Orme
Website url: http://www.donnaorme.com
Education:   Studied with Master Printmakers Alan May and Joe Zirker
Reside in: Santa Clara, CA
Making works on paper since: 1992
Preferred printmaking process: Acrylic Monotypes, Collagraphs
Three words to describe your work: Nonobjective, spontaneous, experimental
What everyone should know about printmaking: Making prints keeps my mind in a state of tranquility.
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: Prior to becoming a full-time printmaker, I raised three children and was a legal secretary.

See more of Donna Orme’s work at the Print Fair at ArtHouse at the ICA on Sunday, May 1, from 11am-4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #14: Adele Seltzer

Name: ADELE SELTZER
Website url: http://www.adeleseltzer.com NOTE my BLOG on website: reedited to ten minute Monotype Demo Video from PBS of one drop painterly print
Education: B.S.,M.S, U. of Penn., MFA San Jose State U., Stanford University – Monotype with Nathan Olivera 1 yr. and TA
Reside in: Portola Valley – where I give monotype workshops
Making works on paper since: the early 1990′s
Preferred printmaking process: Monotype Painterly Printing
Recent Exhibitions: recent solo at Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA,  Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA., featured solo
Three words that describe your work: fluid, painterly, colorful
What everyone should know about printmaking: fun, spontaneous
If I wasn’t a print maker, I’d be: I’d have clean fingers and long nails – and be miserable
Cats or Dogs? Love Samoyeds and fluffy cats

See more of Adele’s work at the Print Fair at ArtHouse on Saturday, April 30 from 11am to 4pm.

Print Fair Artist Profile #12: Inge Infante

See more of Inge’s work at the Print Fair at ArtHouse on Saturday, April 30 from 11am to 4pm.

Name: Inge Infante
Website url: ingeinfante.com
Education: MA Mathematics
Reside in: Palo Alto, CA
Making works on paper since: 1996
Preferred printmaking process: Monotype
Most recent exhibition: 2011,  ”Renew”, Palo Alto City Hall, curated by Elise DeMarzo
Three words to describe your work: Personal memories
What everyone should know about printmaking: Intense
If I wasn’t a printmaker, I’d be: Collage artist
Cats or Dogs? love them but am allergic