Dan Welden
Artist, Master Printmaker
Sag Harbor, NY
@danwelden.solarplate
“I have printed over 20,000 prints with my E-12 Etching press and it still prints like the day I got it.”
– Dan Welden,
Artist/ Printmaker
Bio
As the original pioneer of alternative printmaking since 1970, Dan Welden has been in the forefront of ‘health and safety’ in the arts. As co-author of ‘PRINTMAKING IN THE SUN’ and director of Hampton Editions, Ltd., his 50 plus years of collaboration include artists such as Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith, and Dan Flavin. He has received international recognition through his residencies in China, Belgium, Cuba, Peru New Zealand, Australia, and other countries.
With 105 solo exhibitions to date, including the paramount exhibitor at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and travels to 55 countries on all seven continents, he was awarded a ‘lifetime achievement award’ from A/E Foundation in New York; a title of Professor Emeritus from Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cusco, Peru and most recently a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant.
Artist Statement
I am an experimenter, explorer and a seeker of beauty. When I set out to work, there is no image in mind, but the vision unfolds as the work evolves. It usually begins with simple forms and marks with broad areas. It then becomes more refined and delicate and knits itself together through line.
I am a process person, interested in employing materials and techniques to the ‘landscape’ of my mind. My drawings, paintings and prints evolve from the idea of linear pathways echoing from the tracks of animals in nature, fissures in rock palisades and the patterns created by my hands becoming ‘playful’ with my tools.
Learning to read a printing plate before inking, is like sensing the log before wielding the axe. So goes my act of creativity, being aware of what resonates in front of me and responding with marks, colors and textures.
Prints
“Round Square”
– 2011
– 16″ x 12″
– Printed at home Hampton Editions, Ltd
“Antarctic Thirst”
– 12″ x 16″
– Intaglio Relief
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