Linocut Relief Printing

with Christopher Ganz

When: Saturday, May 18 from 10am - 4pm

Where: Artlink, 300 E. Main Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802.

Tickets: $65

Participants will create a three-color print using a reduction process on linoleum. Each layer will be hand printed, and layers will be subsequently printed one on top of the other. This process will involve carving material from one piece of linoleum, and a registration system will be used to ensure each color layer aligns to complete an edition of three prints.

Imagery for the print will primarily be abstract, but some representative elements can be used as well, such as natural patterns and textures. Participants can create their own designs prior to the workshop or use supplied designs or imagery. Participants can also collaborate with each other to make prints using more than one linoleum piece. Participants will learn about the linoleum printmaking process, and about two-dimensional and color design/theory.

For high school age and up.

About the Instructor

Christopher Ganz is a professor of drawing and printmaking at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Ganz received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1995, and a Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2001. His work has been displayed across the nation and at international art fairs, and his work is represented by Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago.

Seminal influences on the work of Ganz include Dore’s engraved illustrations for The Divine Comedy and super-hero comics. Later on, Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Caravaggio would inspire his wok, as well as contemporary artists such as Mark Tansey and Lucian Freud. The novels of Melville, and Dostoyevsky, and contemporary authors such as Thomas Pynchon and Umberto Eco are also sources of inspiration.