| Glenn Seaborg |
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i’ve had three great printmaking teachers
ian colverson maurice gray and kathan brown who before the day i took this picture i’d never actually met i studied with ian at ucla with maurice at cal state fullerton and with kathan between the covers of her book ink, paper, metal, wood ian’s printmaking class was actually the first art class i’d ever taken in my life i worked for weeks on this intaglio self-portrait he helped me deal with line with myriad other issues and when the piece was finally done we put the print on a counter and ian leaned over it for really a long time and he stared finally looking over at me and asking gently “does it look so fucking awful because you wanted it to, or can you simply not draw?” at an lax bookstore of all places i found ink, paper, metal, wood an extraordinary book in that it manages to explore a triad of |
her life journey contemporary intaglio techniques and a few decades worth of art issues and styles summer of 1959 holiday trip to edinburgh a backyard pile of gears and metal parts an etching press? yes students had diverted it from meltdown for the war it had a history in the next four decades it would have more kathan and the rusty parts took a freighter thru the panama canal to a boyfriend in a city she’d never seen san francisco married in ‘60 son in ‘61 crown point press in ‘62 the husband drifted away in ‘63 four decades of art and life intaglio techniques from another age in the service of making sense of life today kathan brown’s journey an inspiration for life for technique for art |
| Master Printer |
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31 July 99
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