I'm Convinced! :: Doc Pizzoli Book and Exhibition Process Thread

[Gregory]

BUY THE BOOK! <--link to classified to purchase Where the Night Train Goes, my latest limited edition artist book



This is a shot from my MFA Thesis Installation which opens this Friday.

Here's the info:

I'm Convinced!
J. Gregory Pizzoli
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Friday May 8th 5-8pm
The Skybox at 2424 E. York Street
Philadelphia

For this show I made about 30 prints, made all my own frames, wooden flags, mountains and a lake, a pretty big drawing, some small sculptural pieces and a hand-silkscreened book which I wrote, drew, printed (32 runs/edition of 125!) and bound myself.

I have a ton of photos and will be posting them here. I hope some of you in the area can make it to the show...

[Gregory]

Shot of my custom pedestals , rusted steel with coats of poly to keep the books from getting too dinged up.

Where the Night Train Goes is the silkscreened book I just finished - will be in the classifieds soon..

The Great Race was a book I did last semester, offset guts and silkscreened covers

[Gregory]

S'more shots:


top view

Wall pieces

[seriplop]

rulin'!

[The Bubble Process]

Wow, all the hard work looks like it payed off. Wish I was in the area so I could check it out. Great stuff.

[tim gough]

lookin sweet, see you friday!

[Gregory]

Thanks Chloe, BP more pics...

Here are some process shots from the lil' owl print that is in the middle of the cluster seen here:



I do all of my art prints seps by hand soooo...... it starts looking something like this:



I print that with a metallicy gold color and then take that print to the light table, tape another sheet of paper on top of the one I just printed and then draw the next layer.

This way of working keeps the whole process really fresh for me as I can start with an idea of what I want at the beginning, but can change my ideas and rework stuff as I go

Admittedly this is a pretty straightforward print so I'll just post the rest of the pics:

first layer printed


second layer drawn


second layer printed


third layer drawn


3rd printed


I kept working all the colors from that originally metallicy-gold so all of the layers have a metallic quality as they are all built from the same ink

close up




I somehow skipped some layers but the final thing was six layers:



in a frame:

[dennyschmickle]

Awe-some!!!

[Carlos Artest]

Yr so good. I want that animal collective poster you did so badly. Wish I could make this

[Gregory]

Thanks Tim, Denny and Carlos.

Here are some more close ups of some other stuff I made for the show. Right now I am trying to organize my book printing process shots but in the meantime I made some, well, umm





I made that shelf too