Artworks > Curatorial Project: Lost and Found Portfolio(2024)

This is an exchange portfolio I curated in 2024 for the the Mid America Print Council Conference.

I asked this group of artists to explore the act of creative re-use by printing onto found surfaces. Artists were invited to consider the specific narratives and mysteries of the appropriated artifact substrates. The printed imagery sets in dialog with the compositional dynamics, haptic qualities, and image contexts of the found surfaces.  This act of creative re-use acknowledges the small but positive impacts that incrementally make a difference.  

The prints created include various processes including screenprinting, relief printing, lithography, and laser etching on a variety of surfaces including handmade paper, sewing pattern tissue, vintage book pages, magazine pages, comic book pages, tabloid newspaper pages, cereal boxes, vinyl stickers, mylar printing master transparencies, vintage wallpaper, laminate wood paneling, roofing paper, and Naugahyde. Many of the works are printed on both sides. The portfolio box is made from post-consumer product corrugated cardboard, and the colophon is printed on insert stabilizing paper from packages of archival cotton paper.

It has been a pleasure working with these innovative artists and seeing how they responded to the challenge of the project.

Portfolio Colophon
Screenprint on found paper
Porfolio Box by José Rodriguez
post-consumer product corrugated cardboard
2024
PM: La Noticia a Tiempo by Miguel Aragón
laser engraved woodcut on newspaper
11 x 14
2024
Rise by Luke Ball
screenprint on oak panel
11 x 14
2024
Wipe Down by Jaquelee Chit Yu Chau
stone lithography on handmade paper made from cotton work shirts
14 x 11
2024
As Above, So Below #15 by Aaron S. Coleman
screenprint on found book page mounted to Rives BFK
2024
Lammin' Full by Andrew DeCaen
screenprint on vintage book page
11 x 14
2024
Precipice by Elizabeth Dove [quote by Cormac McCarthy],
screenprint on clothing pattern tissue
11 x 14
2024
Two Sides of the Same Sign by Clarissa Gonzalez [front]
screenprint on mylar map master
11 x 14
2024
Two Sides of the Same Sign by Clarissa Gonzalez [back]
screenprint on found book page mounted to Rives BFK.
11 x 14
2024
The Flood by Melissa Haviland
screenprint on handmade paper
11 x 14
2024
Daily Dose by Dusty Herbig
laser-etched found offset-lithography, archival adhesive
11 x 14
2024
Bird Songs by John Hitchcock
screenprint on Naugahyde.
2024
LOST! by Joseph Lupo
screenprint on found comic book page and Stonehenge paper
14 x 11
2024
Wright, Wood, and Warming World by Gretchen Schermerhorn
screenprint, vintage wallpaper, and National Geographic magazine
14 x 11
2024
Here and There by Lisa Wicka
screenprint and collaged roofing paper on handmade paper
14 x 11
2024
Multiple Washouts by Eva Wylie
screenprint on handmade paper
14 x 11
2024