PRESS founder Melanie Mowinski currently has a solo exhibition on view at MCLA’s Gallery 51 (next door to the exPRESS space on Main Street)! Wayfinding presents an investigation of the motivations behind the paths taken in life through Mowinski’s installation, letterpress, book arts, and collage pieces. This stunning exhibition concludes Melanie’s year-long sabbatical, and she returns … Continue reading
This year’s calendar printing was interrupted with 23 runs to go by the most inconvenient mechanical failure. When we moved from Main Street to our new location, the motor that moves the carriage back and forth over the print form needed to be removed. All seemed to be well after the Vandercook was back together, … Continue reading
As part of this year’s calendar creation, PRESS is collaborating with MCLA’s Gallery 51, and students in MCLA Professor Frances Jones-Sneed’s Women, Race and Society class. In addition to the calendar Frances Jones Sneed and PRESS founder Melanie Mowinski will be curating at exhibit centered on the Black Lives Matter movement to open January 28 … Continue reading
On August 27th, Printmaking @ PRESS opened to the public here on Main Street. We’d like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who stopped by to look back on five years of making in the letterpress medium with us. All of the old favorites made an appearance in this retrospective exhibition, and … Continue reading
We are frantically getting ready for PRESS’ final show, Printmaking @ PRESS. It features the work made at PRESS from the past five years, and selecting the exclusive few was not easy, because students and interns have made a lot of high quality art at PRESS. The first chance for the public to see the “best of” … Continue reading
Latitude is only on view for a few more days! Today’s featured artist is Erin Paulson, you’ve probably seen her animations lighting up our front windows, but read more about her inspiration below: Erin’s largely interdisciplinary practice relies heavily on time-intensive processes. Which is fitting since many of her interests revolve around time and space … Continue reading
Latitude is only up for one more week! Today our featured artist is Charissa Schulze, find out more about her work below: Charissa’s work Tempus Florae is adapted from a different clock based theory from the same era. In 1751, Carl Linnaeus theorized a clock of flowers by way of observing their circadian rhythms. … Continue reading
Today’s featured artist is Erin Malkowski, read more about the inspiration for her works in our current exhibit, Latitude, below: Erin’s work seeks to lessen the distance between “out there” (galactic bodies such as the sun) and “down here” (the sundials). She wants to hold in her hands what exists in the vast cosmos … Continue reading
Over the next two weeks we will be presenting features on the artists from our current exhibit, Latitude. Our first featured artist is Tara O’Brien! Learn a little more about Tara and her inspiration for the show below: For Tara, who works with old books and an artist who creates new ones, the image … Continue reading
Our second show of the 2015 DownStreet Art season opened yesterday! We had a great turn out and a great time at the July DownStreet Art celebration. The artists,Erin Malkowski, Tara O’Brien, Erin Paulson, and Charissa Schulze, were inspired by a 1763 mathematics manuscript describing instructions for setting up a sundial, four artists respond to the … Continue reading
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