2014 Monothon Exhibition by 90 more Artists

Thursday, January 15, 2015 5:00 PM 17:00
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 6:00 PM 18:00

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MORE THAN 90 ARTISTS AND AMATEUR CREATIVES SIGNED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE [PRESS] AT UNTITLED'S 2014 MONOTHON EXHIBITION. EACH PARTICIPANT SPENT 1-3 DAYS WORKING IN THE PRINTMAKING STUDIO TO PRODUCE HAND-PULLED MONOTYPE PRINTS. MONOTYPE PRINTS BEING A FORM OF PRINTMAKING THAT CAN ONLY BE USED ONCE, VERSUS MOST FORMS OF PRINTMAKING WHICH CAN BE USED MULTIPLE TIMES.

"The 2014 Monothon Exhibition represents a litany of creative individuals from Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico who came together to support the [Press] at Untitled through the creation of hand-pulled monotype prints, also known as monoprints.

Monotype is a printmaking processs, known as the painterly process, while a monoprint can be created in any printmaking process, but it is a work on paper that is one of a kind and not editioned (editioning is signing and numbering multiple identical prints). A monotype is created by making an impression on paper of a design painted with brushes, brayers, fingers, etc. on a surface such as Plexiglas, and can be created using one or many layers pressed into paper using an intaglio press to complete the composition.

The process was created by artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione who began creating monotypes sometime during the 1640's. Though, historically monotype focuses in the use of toxic oil based media the exhibited prints in the 2014 Monothon were created using non-toxic water-based inks which have experience their evolution over the last 20 years following the development of many non-toxic printmaking methods pioneered by Keith Howard, Professor and Director of the Graduate Contemporary Non-Toxic Printmaking Program at Rochester Institute of Technology.

The exhibition participants range from Untitled's mentoring of art students from Geary High School in Oklahoma, to amateurs and career arts professionals. The prints selected for the exhibition was chosen to catalog the most diverse array of creative methods. While these monoprints exemplify many different styles, as a whole, they represent the possibility that exist for any person willing to embrace the wonderful world of printmaking through the [Press] at Untitled. There is virtually no wrong way to create a monotype; its freedom of methodology is complimented by spontaneity and happy accidents which continue to lead the evolution of the form today.”

- Stacey D. Miller, [Press] Director

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