'UB Prints Today' showcases work of advanced printmaking students

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Services Editor

The exhibit will run through Oct. 1 in the Art Department Gallery in Room B45 (lower level) of the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus.

Gallery hours are Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. There is no admission charge.

Artists whose work is featured in the show are Nathan Hochstetter, Olenka Bodnarskyj, Alan Coburn, Susan Budash, Jim Burns, Rebecca Costanzo, Ben Dunkle, Meg Kasper, Michael Parker, Rebecca Robideau , David Jablonski, Jason Jones, Susan Lewke, Kyoko Roszmann, Adam Selbst, Michael Smearer, Amy Swartele, Daniel Walker, Michael Yeomans.

A complementary show of work by students in introductory and intermediate printmaking classes is on display in the northwest corridor of the center's lower level.

Within the broad spectrum offered by the printmaking mediums of intaglio, lithography, relief and monotype, the artists explore and mix "alternative processes," such as digital and photographic images, book art, collotype (a photomechanical process for making prints directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid that has ink-receptive and ink-repellent parts) and collography.

"Our graduates," Henderson says, "have gone on to prestigious MFA programs and are employed in a variety of fields as independent printmakers; master printers and print shop owners; museum, gallery and auction-house print curators and specialists, and as art professors. Armed with a university degree and creative and analytical skills, others have entered the fields of law, investment banking, business management and consulting, art direction, illustration and scenic and costume design."