Art
Roadworks Print :: Maia de Raat's Aquarium
- Item Number
- 302
- Estimated Value
- 500 USD
- Leading Bid
- 150 USD
- Number of Bids
- 1 - Bid History
Item Description
Maia de Raat's Aquarium
Large-scale 4' x 4' Linocut Print (3' x 3' image), not numbered
Printed by steamroller on Rhode Island Street in September, 2005
The San Francisco Center for the Book’s Annual Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival is a day-long public printmaking and book arts extravaganza that includes free hands-on printmaking and book arts activities, demonstrations, arts and crafts vendors, art gallery and studio tours, and more.
During the Roadworks Steamroller Printing Festival we celebrate this interesting fact of book arts history in the biggest, over-the-top, spectacular way we can think of, by printing linocuts using a 7-ton 1924 Buffalo Springfield steamroller -- provided by Roots of Motive Power - combined with the road surface of Rhode Island Street as an enormous makeshift printing press. In this way a team of featured artists, printers and steamroller operators create large-scale Featured Artist prints during the Festival.
Maia de Raat :: Maia de Raat, founder of Dandy Lion Press, taught letterpress and related arts at the San Francisco Center for the Book for 7 years. Her work was twice part of the Center's Steamroller Prints Event where in artists are each asked to carve a 3 ft by 3 ft sheet of linoleum which is then inked & run over by a steamroller. Neenah Paper, Inc. picked her "Baby Bunnylope In A Carriage" card to be part of their 2010 nation-wide Crane's Lettra Paper promotion. Maia's letterpress work is featured in two books "Adventures in Letterpress" by Brandon Mise, published by Laurence King Publishing, and "DEZAIN NO HIKIDASHI Vol. 10", published by Graphic-sha Publishing Co., Ltd. Maia originally discovered the craft of letterpress printing while studying for a Fine Art degree at Smith College in Northampton MA. It was an irresistible mix of arcane knowledge, antique machinery and beautiful ephemera.
Item Special Note
Unframed.
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