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Exquisite Corpse Woodcut Printmaking
November 16, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$65
Exquisite Corpse Woodcut Printmaking | Sat. Nov 16, 2024 | 2:00 – 5:00 pm ET | The Pulpery,
Exquisite Corpse: a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, creating a finished composition.
In conjunction with the Museum for Art in Wood’s current exhibition, Mark Sfirri: La Famiglia, please join us for this woodcut printmaking workshop with artist Colin Pezzano.
In this three-hour workshop, Colin will walk participants through the basics of carving, inking, and pressing a woodcut print. Practice the fine art of collaboration by joining each individual’s print to create the finished artwork.
The workshop is inspired by the many artists Mark Sfirri has collaborated with and the many woodcut prints he still creates to this day. Following the workshop, participants are invited to a special tour and reception with Mark Sfirri. Don’t miss this fun, collaborative workshop!
Workshop:
2 – 5 pm at Pulpery Studio
56 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 191906
Special Tour & Reception with Mark Sfirri:
5:30 – 7:30 pm at the Museum for Art in Wood
141 N 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
About Colin Pezzano
“Dragged” by Colin Pezzano for his graphic novel “Soma”
Colin Pezzano, born in 1992, is a woodworker, printmaker, and craft artist based in South Philadelphia. His practice combines digital and hand processes to infuse humor, pathos, and memory into his chosen materials. By relying on woodworking processes, he connects his actions and memories to the traditions of his predecessors.
Colin graduated from the University Of The Arts in 2014. Upon graduation, he received The Faculty Choice Award and The Windgate Fellowship. After graduation, Pezzano was featured in Craft Forms (2014) and interviewed in an article with American Craft. In the Spring of 2015, Pezzano had his first solo show, “Contain You,” at Bridgette Mayer Gallery. In 2018, Colin had his second solo show, “Still Life With Dead Game,” at Allens Lane Art Center. In 2022, he received The Windgate-Lamar Fellowship Award through The Center for Craft.
In conjunction with the exhibition “Home as Stage” at the Wharton Esherick Museum in the fall of 2022, Colin released a graphic novel titled Soma, told in 45 woodcuts. A “mundane horror,” the narrative investigates lived and imagined experience, corporality, and the passage of time.
During his career Pezzano has participated in group shows, juried exhibitions and attended residencies in the USA and Sweden. He maintains his practice in his basement studio.