Shelby Dinh
Is it a Choice?
Exhibition dates: October 17-22
Reception with the artist: Tuesday Oct. 18 at 4:30 pm
at The UCSC Contemporary Print Media Research Center, Baskin Art Studio G111

Is it a Choice? showcases a series of screen and relief prints that reveal the harsh reality following the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. As our government begins to turn the clock back to 1950, it’s important to stand up for those who have lost the rights to their own body. Inspired by popular magazine covers from the 1950s, these prints hope to make a statement as bold enough as the supreme court’s decision.

Shelby Dinh is a recent alumni of UCSC and graduated with a BA in Art and a BA in Economics. Printmaking became an instant passion for Shelby after discovering it in 2019 through the intro printmaking class on campus. After trying a hand at each printmaking medium, she found that relief  and screen printing were the mediums she was most drawn too. Personal life experiences are what inspires her the most to create. She now lives in San Francisco where she hopes to grow and continue her art practice. 

Sage Alucero Juarez – Serenades the Night
Exhibition dates: October 10-15
Reception with the artist: Wednesday Oct. 12 at 2:00 pm
at The UCSC Contemporary Print Media Research Center, Baskin Art Studio G111

Artist and educator Barbara Benish’s collaboration with political philosophers Michael J. Shapiro and Sam Okoth Opondo, a reciprocal visual and textual dialogue titled Aesthetics of Precarity (publication 2022), includes a series of woodcuts produced at the Contemporary Print Media Research Center reflecting the writer’s “responses to a renewed sense of the fragility of life in the wake of nuclear, racial, and pandemic sublimes”. Associate professor Enrique Leal has been overseeing the printing production. Artists proofs from the series were included in the group exhibition Collaborations, presented at Bubec Studios in Prague, Czech Republic, May 2021.

UCSC alumni and art patron Jock Reynolds has donated various print media related publications to the Contemporary Print Media Research Center that included numerous editions of the international art journal Parkett, and ESOPUS, an annual artist-project driven magazine (both discontinued publications).

Associate professor Enrique Leal is collaborating with Little Giant Collective in a UC Place Based Art + Design mini-grant to build a mobile silkscreen printing tricycle (sericycle) to provide migrant and marginalized communities the possibility to graphically empower their social concerns.  

The Institute for the Arts and Sciences 2020 artist’-in-residence Futurefarmers artist collective have been producing a series of lithographs as part of their public art projects Fog Inquiry, an interdisciplinary and collaborative proposal carried throughout the UCSC campus. The graphic work-in-progress involves transferring crayon rubbings of hand size rocks to traditional lithography stones before printing. Associate professor Enrique Leal is providing Futurefarmers members Amy Franceschini and Lode Vranken technical advice and assistance in the process. Alumni printmaker Jocelyn Lee has been closely collaborating with Futurefarmers throughout their residency. The project will resume following the opening of the Elena Baskins Visual Arts print studios in 2021/22.  

The Annual UCSC Outstanding Undergraduate Printmaker’ Award recipient

Teralyn Brown

LIVED IN

Exhibition dates: November 4 -15, 2019

Reception with the artist: Monday November 4th 2019, 4:30pm – 6:30pm

at The UCSC Contemporary Print Media Research Center, Elena Baskin Visual Art Studio G111

The Art Department and the Contemporary Print Media Research Center proudly present a solo exhibition of the work of our first Outstanding Undergraduate Printmaker Award recipient, Teralyn Brown, Lived In.

Lived In is an ongoing series of etchings that render scenes and aspects of messy private living spaces such as kitchens, bedrooms, closets, and garages as candid representations of the people who live within them.  With the use of photo-based etching processes, integral line drawings, and aquatint, the spaces become compositionally appealing and graphically reveal relatable personal elements that otherwise would be overlooked in everyday life.

Brown transferred to UC Santa Cruz in 2017 from Foothill College in Los Altos Hills with zero knowledge or interest in any kind of printmaking.  After spending much time working in the print studio, she realized that her true love was intaglio printmaking.  For her, it combines the elements of painting and drawing that she enjoys, but adds a satisfying process and comforting permanence in knowing that more of the image can be made.  Having graduated from UCSC with a BA in Studio Art in 2019, she now lives in Silicon Valley, California and continues to seek beautiful messes.

The Annual UCSC ‘Outstanding Undergraduate Printmaker’ Award

With this award, we acknowledge and honor an outstanding undergraduate student whose work as a printmaker demonstrates excellence, dedication and passion.

We also consider how this student has contributed as a good citizen and community member in the UCSC printmaking environment, as we hope this awardee can become a possible future leader in the field.

This award comes with a $400 credit toward material purchases in the UCSC paper store and the privilege of being an artist in residence (for four to six weeks), provided with a personal studio space at the Contemporary Print Media Research Center (CPMRC) during the summer break.  In the fall quarter a solo exhibition of the awardee’s work will be presented at the CPMRC.

Exhibition dates: May 8 -11, 2019

Reception with the artist: Wednesday, May 8, 4:00pm – 6:00pm

at The UCSC Contemporary Print Media Research Center, Baskin Art Studio G111

Our fourth visiting artist Tobias Crone will be working on his new print and drawing projects at the center from April 10 through May 13, 2019.

After growing up in the swamps of the Northern German province, Tobias Crone studied printmaking at the Art Academy of Groningen in the Netherlands. Having suffered some short but intense romantic affairs with animation movies, installations and theatre, he managed to stick to his true love called intaglio printmaking, once introduced to him by his good ol’ pal, the pencil.

During his stay in Buenos Aires from 2012 to 2017, he began working on a series called ”Person Separation Device“: detailed figurative etchings, aquatints and drawings, the majority of them large monochrome prints with subtle color accents. These works depict fragile persons that get united through the “Person Unification Device” (an object that resembles a mattress), then travel together through a world of desolate swimming pools and tiled bathrooms, and at the end, enter the “Separation Device” (technically a turnstile).

He now lives on the cold hostile grounds of Berlin, continuing to work on his series. His works have been

displayed in various exhibitions around the world and received distinctions like the CIEC Foundation Grant 2018 (Spain) or the 2nd Prize of the Manuel Belgrano Printmaking Award (Argentina).

ZineFest. October 18th, and Zine Workshop October 19th, 2018. Multiples a 2 Day Screen Printing workshop. October 25th and 26th

Printmaking events and workshops were held at Elena Baskins Visual Arts print media studios as part of the UCSC Sesnon Gallery exhibition, Unique Multiples. Teaching with the Parkett Collection from the University of Castilla La-Mancha. A ZineFest including works of local and Bay Area graphic artists drew high participation and attendance.  Madeleine L. Keller conducted a zine workshop for students coordinated by Sesnon Gallery manager, UCSC alumni and printmaker Louise Leong. Little Giant Collective artist and UCSC alumni Ry Faraola, exhibited his graphic activist prints and provided students a two-day screen-printing workshop.