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Fiber Ink Studio along with Calumet Photographic and Shadowbox Framing sponsored the 2012 ASMPNY Fine Art Portfolio Reviews. A terrific line up of amazing and accomplished reviewers along with information about event can be found here.

Ohio Dominican University’s Wehrle Art Gallery recently closed the exhibition, A Retrospective by Linda Adele Goodine (from November 4, 2011 – January 5, 2012).

This exhibit offered a 30 year retrospective (1982-2012) with 50 large photographic murals from the artist’s work created in the Panhandle of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, New Zealand, and the Everglades.

Way back when Adele was my teacher and Department Head at Herron School of Art and Design. She rocked my visual world, showed me Diane Arbus, Brassaï and unleashed fine art photography on me, and my eyes have never been the same. Congratulations to Adele on this HUGE accomplishment of 30 years of photographic work.   Please visit her beautiful website for more images.

Need an amazing framer? Someone who listens to what you imagine for your work, then uses her expert knowledge and intuition to tweak it to go beyond your expectations?

Check out this gorgeous spline work created for one of my photographs.

Jennifer Kahrs owns and hand crafts over at Shadowbox in Park Slope, Brooklyn – her contact is jennifer.kahrs@gmail.com.

Shadowbox offers a range of fine art services. Specialities include art production design, hand finished splined frames, period frames, installation and crating.

Fiber Ink Studio confidently refers our clients to Jennifer.  She is the best and we are thrilled to work with her. Now what else can I get framed..?

Luscious and incredible scanner images by Bruce Checefsky (printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta 325gsm) are currently on view at the Akron Art Museum. SuperNatural: Landscapes by Bruce Checefsky and Barry Underwood. On view until March 4, 2012.

From Italian Academy press release: Using a plastic camera from the 1960s, Amy Bedik photographs sculpture and landscape, creating images of startling intensity and sophistication.  In Figure and Ground, she exhibits work made in Italy, Turkey, and New York.  And from Russell Hart: If the shapeliness of Bedik’s subjects makes her viewer cognizant of their creators’ tools—chisel or clippers, wind or water—the visual qualities of her photographs raise the question of what was used to make them. Her perfectly named Diana, an inexpensive plastic camera with a crude plastic lens, produces images that are less sharp than those from a “serious” camera and that become softer still, and also darker, toward the edges. “It would certainly be easier to work with a conventional camera,” Bedik says. “The Diana is unreliable at best, but the way it renders subjects is the closest I’ve come to replicating the way I see.” In fact, Bedik insists that the images no longer appear distorted to her.

We are thrilled to have worked with Amy over the past two years. Amy’s beautiful and transformative work is shot with a toy Diana camera, scanned and outputted to pigment prints – printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 (90% bamboo fibers and 10% cotton) 280gsm. And best of all – we will be at the opening!

Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 18, 2011

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

RSVP at www.italianacademy.columbia.edu / The Italian Academy / 1161 Amsterdam Avenue / Just south of 118th Street / New York, NY 10027

Review of show by the Columbia Spectator

From MICA:
The exhibition will showcase more than 35 images made by DeLuise with an 8×10 large format camera while in India, Nepal, Italy and Bhutan. From the start, travel has been integral to DeLuise’s creative process. Throughout her career, DeLuise has traveled to India and Nepal on a Guggenheim Fellowship, to Italy both to study and teach, and to Bhutan on a recent sabbatical. Although the destinations have varied, DeLuise has been moving in the same direction, desiring to roam toward the unknown and bowing to her subject through the lens of her camera. In the making, printing and exhibiting of her photographs, DeLuise’s journey reflects what Nietzsche called “a long obedience in the same direction.”

We were thrilled to have worked with Regina by drum scanning her 8″ x 10″ negatives and producing luscious pigment prints (Ilford  Galerie Gold Fiber Silk 310gsm) for this show.  At MICA both palladium prints and pigment prints will be on view. Regina traditionally creates gorgeous palladium prints so this was quite a joy for us to be trusted through this process from film to digital output.  Quietly thoughtful photographs of extraordinary landscapes, portraits and sublime moments will be on view at MICA from Oct 21st to November 13th. See more of her work here.

Sculptor and architect Mark Kramer recently hired Fiber Ink Studio to print limited edition artist posters marking his Retrospective of Figurative Bronze Sculptures at Gallery B in Bethesda, MD.

Three limited edition posters will be signed and numbered by the artist. Printed on archival Espon Matte paper with HRD inks.

A Retrospective of Figurative Bronzes
Opening Reception: Oct. 14, 6-9pm
Sculptor and architect Mark Kramer exhibits a series of new and prior Bronze Bas Relief sculptures. Works include Parisian themes of French landmarks and a Zodiac series inspired by the symbolism of astrological signs.

We are thrilled to be a recommended printer for Art From the Heart (AFTH) a pop-up photo festival uniting contemporary photographers with visual connoisseurs.  Fiber Ink Studio is offering a 25% discount on all services for AFTH work orders during the open call. Use job reference AFTH when placing your order;  we will deliver prints  to The Vanderbilt Republic at no additional charge.  Art From the Heart 2011 happens Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 25CPW (25 Central Park West) from 7-11p, and is curated by Jo-Anneke Van Der Molen.

THE OPEN CALL EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 17th, 2011

The work of Bruce Nelson offers a personal look at the Northwoods of Wisconsin. We have had the pleasure of printing for Bruce (despite the distance between us) and have enjoyed “escaping” the studio while looking at his work. For these images Hahnemühle Photo rag (matte) 308gsm and Crane Museo Silver Rag 300gsm were selected. Bruce’s use of deep tonal range including full blacks make these landscapes especially beautiful works. To see more of Bruce’s work visit Lake Effect Gallery. His work will be on exhibition in Chicago in October 2011. Details coming soon.