Biography

Roswell, New Mexico

Following successful careers as a photojournalist, television art director and graphic designer, Ed turned his attention to portraying the dramatic and spiritual quality of the architecture, landscapes and light of the Southwest.

ORIGINAL SERIGRAPHS
Why these or called an original print.

An original print is a work of art created by hand and printed by hand, either by the artist or by a professional assistant (often called an artisan), from a plate, block, stone, or screen that has been hand created by the artist for the sole purpose of producing the desired image. The plates or screens it is printed from bear no resemblance to the finished work of art, which means it is not a copy or a reproduction of anything. Each print produced is technically a unique work although produced as a signed and numbered multiple. The original print is usually produced as a limited number of impressions, another word for print. The term for this group of prints is the edition. Although there are many of the same images in an edition, each print is an individual part of the whole, the whole being the edition. An original print is actually one piece of a multiple original work of art. Back to serigraphs

There are different methods of producing a stencil for printing a serigraph. With the film method, which he uses, a very thin soluble film on a transparent backing is laid over the pattern and cut with a knife to trim away the areas being printed. After cutting the film stencil, the film is adhered to the silk screen with a fluid and the backing is removed. After the stencil is placed on the screen, the ink is prepared to its desired color and proper consistency. A squeegee is hand-pulled by the artist across the screen, pushing the ink through the silk onto the paper below. The entire edition is printed with one color before dissolving the stencil and preparing the screen for the next color. The next stencil is registered for placement with the precious colors so that the imprint will fall into the right place. This becomes increasingly more difficult as the number of colors in the print increase. The number of "good ones" in the end determines the edition size. There may be slight imperfections due to the handmade nature of the printing process, and the blends of color may vary somewhat from print to print.

Exhibitions/Publications

New Mexico State Fair Professional Fine Arts Exhibition - 2004, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994

Rio Grande Arts and Crafts Festival Albuquerque, NM - 2005

Fuller Lodge Art Center Los Alamos, NM " The Art of New Mexico" - 1996, 1995.

Weems Artfest Albuquerque, NM - 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002

The New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair - 2008, 2004, 2003, 2002, 1994

Magnifico! " Albuquerque Festival of the Arts" 1995.

G. Whitwell Gallery Albuquerque, NM one man show 1997.

Informart magazine summer 2002 issue, a feature article.

The Collectors guide for Santa Fe, Taos and Albuquerque, NM