It's been a busy Summer and Fall over here in Chicago! Here's a quick recap of some events I participated in recently. In June, I drove out to Easton, PA to participate in the third installment of PRINT RIOT. Then it was back to work for my solo show, Semisweet, at Your Happy Place Liquors in Chicago which opened in early August. Some recent group shows here in Chicago have been the Art of the Slice Exhibition at Galerie F, and the Chicago Printers Guild 10 Year Aniversary Show. The CPG show is currently up at the NEIU Fine Arts Center Gallery until October 25th.

​Stay tuned for more announcements regarding upcoming fairs and exhibitions I will be exhibiting work in!

This year I am exhibiting at SGCI's latest installment, Texchange. I am at booth 59 at the Vendor, Program, and Publisher's Fair. The VPP Fair is located on the second floor of the Fairmont Dallas Hotel in the Regency Ballroom. Be sure to check out all of the great programming SGC has to offer this year, from demos, to inkubator sessions, to gallery openings and more. Additional information is located on SGCI's website here.

When: March 7 & 8: 8am-1pm
          March 9: 8:30am-2:30pm
Where: The Fairmont Hotel
            1717 N. Akard Street, Dallas, TX 75201
            2nd Fl. Regency Ballroom

I am excited to announce that I have 3 prints in this exhibition, curated by Bill Fick and Judy Jones, that opens today at Artspace in Raleigh, NC.  If you are in the NC area, feel free to check out this great showing of print work from all around the U.S.!

About the show: This exhibition celebrates printmaking as one of the most relevant visual art forms practiced today. Twenty-six artists from across the country were chosen to demonstrate the astonishing technical breadth of the field, its deep history, perpetual innovation, and unique ability to communicate prescient social and political ideas. Judy Jones and Bill Fick bring their decades of experience, passion for print, and distinct curatorial points of view to create a dynamic vision of contemporary printmaking in the United States.

I just wanted to share a couple of great print events I was able to be a part of this fall! Back in October I traveled to NYC to participate in Print Week. I assisted Jennifer Melby at her booth at the Editions/Artists' Books Fair as well as exhibited some of my own work published by Cannonball Press at the fair. Working with Cannonball, I created two new black and white prints that I have featured below. It was an honor to be able to participate and exhibit in such a prominent art fair in New York City.

I am showing work at the Big Print Show which opens at the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative tomorrow, June 23rd. Check out large scale printed works by myself, Art Werger, Aaron Coleman, Jenny Robinson, Karen Kunc, Raeleen Kao, and Teresa James. This show is part of the Chicago Print Crawl which is a self guided print tour with participating shops and galleries around the city this Sunday. The show will run through August 31st. Be sure to check it out!

This Friday and Saturday, June 8 & 9th, Brick & Mortar Gallery will be hosting the second annual PRINT RIOT in Easton, PA! Curated by Jesse Shaw, Print Riot is a two day affordable print fair featuring the work from 12 different print houses and printmakers. I will be sharing a table with Jesse, so please come by and say hello!

The fair will be in full swing on Friday from 6-10pm and on Saturday from 11-6pm.

Participating vendors:
Cannonball Press - Brooklyn, NY
Hoofprint - Chicago, IL
Fatherless - Rockford, IL
IS Projects - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Carrier Pigeon - Guttenburg, NJ
Paul Roden - Pittsburg, PA
Drive By Joseph Velasquez - FL
Anna Hasseltine - Chicago, IL
Dylan Garret Smith - Bethlehem, PA
The 50/50 Company - DE
Printmakers Society of the Lehigh Valley - PA
American Printmaker: Jesse Shaw - Bethlehem, PA

RSVP to the event on Facebook here!
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Thank you so much to everyone that came out to my opening at Galerie F last week! I am incredibly grateful for all of the support from family, friends, and the people who I did not even know that came to see the show. It means the world to me, and I could have not asked for a better opening.

If you missed the opening night, do not fret! The show is still up for another week and a half until June 10th. All of the prints for the show are also available to purchase via the Galerie F webstore, so be sure to check that out as well.

Galerie F is open Thursday-Monday from 11-6pm.
The gallery is located at 2415 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL.

SGCI is back for another installment, this year in Las Vegas! Hoofprint and I drove out from Chicago, and picked up our pal Crookedpaw in Saint Louis on the way. Crookedpaw and I are sharing booth 312 at this years Vendors and Publishers Fair at Bally's Las Vegas. We will be posted up on the first floor in the Bally's Conference Room across from the Casino.

Hours are as follows:
Thursday: 9am-5pm
Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: 10am-3pm

Hope to see ya'll there! You can find more information about the conference here.