Event Title
Street Knowledge: The Push and Punch of Pochoir
Location
McGregor Outside Tent
Start Date
26-9-2014 1:30 PM
End Date
26-9-2015 3:00 PM
Description
This is a demonstration using hand-cut stencils with aerosol spray to accomplish a large-scale, multi-color print edition without a press. The medium offers simple accessibility to printmaking on a variety of substrates. Escape from the limitations of press bed size and traditional fine-art printing materials opens a variety of creative avenues. The focus of this demonstration will be production of street-scaled art on newsprint suitable to be pasted in authorized public space in the city of Detroit. "Print City," indeed.
Pochoir on alternate substrate
Print city Pingree Hellboy mashup.jpg (1095 kB)
multi-color stencil 36 x 62 inches
Print city respect.jpg (3196 kB)
stencil multi layered with hand work
Print city-detroitred-billboard.jpg (3030 kB)
digital billboard project; Macomb County, June, 2012
Print city Service street.jpg (764 kB)
authorized multi-color stencil; 36 x 80 inches
Street Knowledge: The Push and Punch of Pochoir
McGregor Outside Tent
This is a demonstration using hand-cut stencils with aerosol spray to accomplish a large-scale, multi-color print edition without a press. The medium offers simple accessibility to printmaking on a variety of substrates. Escape from the limitations of press bed size and traditional fine-art printing materials opens a variety of creative avenues. The focus of this demonstration will be production of street-scaled art on newsprint suitable to be pasted in authorized public space in the city of Detroit. "Print City," indeed.
Comments
This is experimental fine art printmaking liberated from traditional gallery environment.
Production requires large table space and suitable ventilation for aerosol spray fumes.
Designed for temporary public display (wheat paste) of large-scaled, inexpensively made, easily disposable art for the street.
There is no formalized text for this presentation.
One example uploaded below (This form would not allow me to upload additional files). More examples available for review inside my Facebook cover photos folder here: https://www.facebook.com/eno.laget/media_set?set=a.414732921916335.96561.100001388910845&type=3
Note: Eno Laget is an alias under which art is pasted for temporary display on the street.
At the request of conference adjudicators the print maker will engage in panel discussion with other demonstration presenters. There will be a combination of indoor and outdoor demonstration and display of process.