Portfolios & Exhibitions
More coming soon! We're currently fleshing out this page with descriptions and images of our portfolio exchanges and exhibitions we've curated over the past few years. If you are interested in exhibiting one of the portfolio exchanges at your gallery, institution or hip coffee shop, shoot us an email.
To see more of Blake's work, check out his Steel Trap Press. To see more of Hannah's work, check out her Artwork Page, Press Page, and Flickr.
Hot Mess: Finding Love and Inspiration in South Louisiana
Hot Mess consisted of a potpourri of Blake's work inspired by politics and environmental disasters in Louisiana, flavored with books and prints about his budding romance with Hannah. This was a month-long solo exhibition in August of 2011 at the 567 Gallery in Macon, Georgia.
Homecoming
Just around the corner from Blake's Hot Mess, Hannah had a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Exchange in her hometown of Macon, Georgia the first week of August 2011. This show featured woodcut prints on fabric, crochet floor pieces and a table of delectable sale work in two galleries.
Frogman's 30th Anniversiary Assistants Exchange & Metamorphosis Exhibition
Summer 2011 was Frogman's 30th Anniversiary! As a loyal assistant for many years now, Blake felt it a fitting tribute to organize a portfolio that was displayed in Beresford, SD (the original home of Frogman's Press) during the workshops.The theme of the portfolio is Metamorphosis, and particpants were asked to use at least 1 process in their print that they learned at the workshop.
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Trials & Tributaries: Myth and Disaster in Southern Louisiana
Trials and Tributaries was Hannah's MFA Thesis Exhibition at Louisiana State University in May of 2011. This body of work examines disasters occurring in southern Louisiana, interpreted through the Greek myths The Twelve Labors of Herakles. Mankind’s false sense of control over Louisiana’s resources leaves us vulnerable to nature’s powerful acts of reclamation: hurricanes, floods and the ground sinking beneath our feet.
While researching the details and origins of The Twelve Labors, Hannah found a plethora of similarities with local culture, politics and natural disasters. The characters in these narrative prints include hybrid monsters drawn from Greek mythology, which she then further augmented with various forms of local south Louisiana fauna and contemporary political figures. Trials & Tributaries explores events ranging from Hurricane Katrina of 2005; the BP oil spill in the Gulf, Summer 2010; and the raging university budget cuts going on during my thesis year, 2010-11.
Trials and Tributaries includes woodcut prints on repurposed bed sheet fabrics, appliqué stitched together to form colorful, layered surfaces. Accompanying the prints, I also create collections of crocheted floor pieces called “foot prints,” which incorporate scrap fabric from the printing process as well as clothing donations from family and friends. The pluming shapes of the “foot prints” mirror Doppler images of monstrous weather conditions, encroaching on painfully smaller coastal cities and ecosystems. This powerful image of pluming dangerous substances or weather systems functions as a reoccurring image throughout much of my work about the Gulf Coast.
I was interviewed about my Trials & Tributaries exhibition on Ann Flowers' A Beautiful Party Blog.
Blessed Unions Exhibition
On March 18th and 19th of 2011, we were married as part of an exhibition and panel discussion entitled Blessed Unions in conjunction with the 2011 Southern Graphics Council Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
The wedding took place in an exhibition we organized at Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, which brought together a variety of artistic pairs working in tandem including Johntimothy and Patti Pizutto, Katherine and Andy Polk, Jim Bryant and Nicole Hand, Matt Egan and Heather Muise, The Amazing Hancock Brothers, Adriane Herman and Brian Reeves of SlopArt, Hot Iron Press, Anita Jung and Tom Christison, Tim Dooley and Aaron Wilson, Josh and Emily Minnie, and Hannah and Blake Sanders.
Man Overboard Portfolio Exchange
35 artists participated in the Man Overboard exchange portfolio, which was exhibited as part of the 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
We'll post edited images here soon, but in the meantime, check out these on flickr: Man Overboard.
Flotsam & Jetsam Exhibition
This exhibition also took place as part of the 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference in Chicago, Illinois. It featured 6 up-and-coming artists from the Man Overboard portfolio exchange including Blake & Hannah, Rachel Madeline, Emmy Lingscheit, Megan O'Conner and Rudy Salgado, Jr. The exhibition was held at Within Reason Gallery, just upstairs from the Man Overboard Portfolio Exchange Exhibition.
We'll post edited images of this exhibition soon, but in the meantime you can see some pics on Flickr: Flotsam & Jetsam.