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artist, Tamarind Master Printer

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  "Lithographer Wayne Kimball makes small, meticulously executed pieces. At first glance, they look like digitally manipulated photographs, or photocollages, but they're not. Kimball is simply so proficient at his craft that he can achieve effects that his peers from the 1950s couldn't even imagine." -John Hazlehurst

• Web Mentions

  • Back to the Future Art Show
  • Frogman's Press and Gallery: Wayne Kimball
  • Frontiers in Printmaking
  • Nevada Arts Council: Out of Print
  • Speaking Through Stones
  • Study Lithography in Florence with Wayne Kimball

• What is a Lithograph?

  "Basically, it is a print made by using a press to transfer an image that was created initially on stone or metal plate to paper.

  Aloys Senefelder, who invented lithography in 1798, preferred to call it "chemical printing", since the process depends on the chemical interaction of grease, nitric acid, gum arabic, and water, rather than the stone from which the name lithography is derived.

  Although the term can refer to commercially reproduced images, such as those on posters or in magazines, at Tamarind a lithograph is an image made by an artist who works closely with an artisan printer. what 's the difference between a "print" and a fine art print?

  "Print" is the generic tem for an image produced in multiple. There are many different kinds of prints, including reproductions made from an image that already exists.

  A truly "original" print, however, directly involves the artist, who uses the special qualities of the printmaking process--whether it is etching, engraving, serigraphy (or silk screen), woodcut, mezzotint, or lithography--to express his or her ideas.

  Some artists print their images themselves. Others work collaboratively with a skilled printer, who discusses ideas and materials with the artist, and carries out all the technical requirements such as processing and printing.

  In each case, what distinguishes the print as original is that the artist participated directly in the creation of the image and approves all impressions."

  -Tamarind institute
  http://tamarind.unm.edu/process.html