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Series: 4. Artwork of Drew Matott, 1999
: This series includes a number of items created by Drew Matott from his time in school
at Buffalo State College in New York. This includes wet-trap transfer plates and prints
of Wall Street Times and From
Above. These were printed on scavenged materials: TyVek House Wrap, cloth, and
a semi-absorbent Tyvek-style material. The imagery was created by projecting old 1980's
film strips onto different substrate material (plywood, cardboard, and pegboard),
tracing the images, cutting and printing by hand as relief prints. The process, as
explained by the artist: "The process I used was to ink the plate, relief print onto the
TyVek, bedsheet or mystery material and then take another material cardboard, plywood,
pegboard...coat it with clear polyurethane, lay the freshly printed transfer material
onto the plate and burnish the back of the transfer material using a baren and spoon.
The ink would be captured by the urethane and drawn into the new substrate. The finished
pieces I really liked and at first, threw away the transfer plates, then I realized I
liked the transfer plates as much as the finished pieces, especially how the ink would
bleed and run, giving a sense of melting in a way..." It also includes Pegboard Nude aka Born From the
City and an untitled landscape drawing. Born From the
City is a pegboard reduction print on construction paper. The image was
derived from a drawing done by the artist during a figure drawing class at Buffalo State
College. Our print is number 4 of 10. The untitled landscape print is a twice printed
image, derived from a 35 mm print, taken at Waterman Hill in Canton, New York, USA. The
process as described by the artist, "The plate was printed twice, once fully inked, then
again with re-inking, the mysterious substrate material I spray painted to give it a
background. This was before I learned how to do this kind of technique with paper pulp."
These were done by Drew Matott during an independent study course on large format
printmaking, under the direction of Peter Sowiski and Paul Martin at Buffalo State
College, Spring 1999.
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