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The Lapis Press continues to be committed to artists and has an artist in residency program. They also continue to publish books in the spirit of Sam Francis. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy. My Favorite Items. He is also a trumpet-playing visual artist and a well-known art-world DJ. Contradictions that may not really be contradictions but rather nuances as in the title of this portfolio, Quiet Noise that are at the heart of what he does.

The next day he had me taken to a Swiss castle where part of his collection was being shown. When I came back, he asked me if there was any particular thing that I liked. He sat me at a marble table, again with a bottle of wine, and he had his assistants bring out the entire Vollard Suite. JS: Yes, and every time I went to Europe, which was quite frequently as I was working with all these European artists, I always brought that interest home.

In Paris there were these old map shops, with etchings and all different kinds of things. Actually I felt like a jazz musician. I lived here, but I was working in Europe. And everyone in Europe understood what I was doing. JS: My job is to be as well versed in all the aspects of the medium of etching as I can be so that I have a variety of techniques to offer the artists I work with.

They were impeccably packaged—nothing commercial about them—and the sound was perfect. They put out the first Keith Jarrett solo albums. The album covers were artworks and had very beautiful photography.

JS: It was the movement from pop to minimal and conceptual. I remember being at Crown Point Press when it was in Oakland at the old hat factory building, and they were working on the Chuck Close Keith print. Even when they were large-format, there was no slickness to them. Etching was responding to the needs of the artist. I went to New York in , in , in , and I was staying down in SoHo, getting a feeling for what was going on there. Etching really seemed to be part of that raw aesthetic.

There were minimal, simple prints that were formally impeccable but also had this quality of the handmade, a little bit of roughness to it. These were all things that I responded to. JS: I have a few. A contemporary artist who I think makes excellent prints is William Kentridge. CB: Did you become interested in the series format because of its relation to the book? They published a book of photo-etchings in a grid that were details of everything in his studio.

So I responded to that, and I liked the idea of serial imagery, one image leading to the next. What got me into books was working on the Lapis Press books. LJ: I think we should talk about how you went about establishing your traveling print shop. JS: That came from working with Sam.

On my first day he gave me a lecture. He really liked to lecture and intimidate me, which was terrific.

I learned from Sam that artists are more comfortable in their own studio. I thought it could be possible to do a portable studio, but how could I create perfect aquatints on the road?

So in I designed a portable aquatint box, of which the primary components are the bellows from eight-by-ten view cameras. Jack Brogan built it for me. My portable studio fit into two carry-ons.

I had all the plates, acid, and copper cleaner, and I was able to get these really cool European hot plates, for rolling out grounds and melting rosin. When she saw that the spit bite could be done with her saliva, and with her being so performance oriented and body oriented, it all started to gel. For the next project, with Rebecca Horn, I had to fly to Paris. Then why not just do a photo print?

With this, the artist connects the human life cycle with artistic practices. John Baldessari is known for his work that blends photographs by extracting them from their original milieu and rearranging the form. He also added text and lines to such pieces.

He leads the viewer into ways of looking, selecting and comparing. After he got to know about a criticism against conceptual art, that it is all and only about pointing — Baldessari mocked the very criticism. He created photos of a hand pointing at different objects.