The Hand at Fenix Arts:

Juried exhibit of handmade prints and photographs

October 6 – November 12, 2022

Opening Reception: October 6th

5:00 – 8:00PM

The Hand at Fenix Arts, is an international exhibition of handmade prints and photographs juried by Adam Finkelston and James Meara, he co-editor and publishers of the Hand Magazine. The exhibit drew artist submissions from 28 states and five international countries. Never before in history have more prints and photographs been made per minute, yet each of these exhibited entries takes days to construct by hand. The Hand at Fenix Arts is a celebration of the creative image maker, and the exhibit ranges from a Daguerreotype, one of the earliest forms of photography, to a duotone print. Such range and diversity of printmaking methods has likely never been shown before in the state of Arkansas.

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Winning Artists

Artist selected by jurors Adam Finkelston and James Meara.

Anna Guyton
Bloom
Artist Residency Winner

Jacob Crook
Distillation
Honorable Mention

Todd Paige
On the other side of the Fence
Honorable Mention

Linda Whitney
Pinaskiw ~ Butterfly Dancer (season of the falling leaves)
Honorable Mention

Artists

Exhibiting artist selected by jurors Adam Finkelston and James Meara.

Anna Guyton
Bloom
18.5″ x 24.5″
Experimental Inkjet Print

Blake Sanders
Anywhere I Lay My Head
36″ x 4″
Screenprint on repurposed fabric with machine stitching and hand embroidery

Brandon Williams
Measure Once
12″ x 17.5″
Multi-Plate Etching copper, ink, paper

Cathie Kayser
Forgotten
44″ X 32″
Monotype with graphite and ink
Canson Editioning, dry mounted on wood cradle for hanging

Ciara Froning
Obsession No. 1
24″ x 24″
Archival Pigment Transer on Canvas

Debbie Danna
Cuetzalan
11.8″ x 15.7″
Toned Cyanotype on paper

Dennis Segers
Alaska Seastacks
From the series: “Postcards from Afar”
14″ x 11″
Platinum / Palladium over Archival Ink-jet Pigment on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag

Donna Moore
Imagine Topography #1062020
Sphere with copper and turquoise colors
4″ x 6′
Unique/expired photo paper/ wood panel

Dora Agbas
Studio Survaillance
installation of original pinhole photographs in acrylic boxes
3.5 x 5 x 10, 6 x4.5 x 11 (2), 3 x 8 x 13 (2), 2 x 2.3 x 7
paper, wood, acrylic, metal gromet

Harold Lohner
Houses and Rooms 9
A man’s face layered with silhouettes of perfume bottles, color and pattern, overprinted inscription from Whitman in gold
22″ x 15″
ink on paper / monoprint & woodcut

Jacob Crook
Distillation
Dewy Window
12″ x 9″
Mezzotint

Jacqueline Huskisson
Weep
Self-portrait and depiction of inner demons
30″ x36″ x 1.6″
Relief print adhered to wood panel, acrylic and charcoal on Wood panel

Jason Sobottka
Analagous Structure
8″ x 6″
Intaglio, screen, and airbrush pochoir on Rives BFK, mounted on panel

Jeffery Sass
Dreamscape 5
Silver Gelatin Print with Oil Paint
14″ x11″ x 1″
Silver Gelatin Print

Joseph Scheer
Oaxaca Cactus
Two Color Woodcut on Zhou Hong Chang, Cloud Dragon raw paper
36″ x 26″
Woodcut on Xuan Paper

Julie Hamel
Altered Negatives 1 & 2 (window)
Archival print of scanned negative
15″ x 12″
Large format film with hair, orchid petal, strawberry begonia, and thread.

Katharina Bossmann
From Whence Cometh
A large, multi-plate color etching in various blues, grays and blacks. The undulation of the murmuration leads to multiple other images in this print.
18″ x 46″
Inks and transparent base on Japanese washi

Kristoffer Johnson
To Which we Return No. 25
Mordancage
Framed 47″ x 39″  x 3.5″
Gelatin Silver Print

Linda Whitney
Pinaskiw ~ Butterfly Dancer (season of the falling leaves)
Mezzotint with hand applied earth pigments
32″ x 24″
Mezzotint printed from hand rocked copper

Tracy Longley-Cook
Hemispheres #2
Atmospheric circle broken into two halves
7.75″ x 7.75″
Silver Gelatin Print

Marky Kauffmann
Colored Maple
Chemigram
12″ x 18″
silver gelatin paper with fix, bleach, ink

Mitch Eckert
Still Life with Apples Suspended
Palladium Toned Kallitype
23.5″ w x 16.74″
Toned Kallitype on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag Paper

Ranran Fan
Amulets (Tongren)
This is a collaboration done at Tamarind Institute. Collaborative Printer: Austin Armstrong
22″ x 30″
Lithograph, copper wires, fabric threads, incense powder

Robynn Smith
Hill and My Heart #5
A response to the summer of 2020
22″ x 15″
Solarplate etching

Sally Chapman
Liberation Rising
14″ x 30″
cyanotype and pastels

Scott Kitts
Night Bird
Mixed Media
8″ x 8″
Paper Acrylic

Scott Singer
Trinity (study A)
Oppenheimer separated into the three constituent components, and a Tiepolo head in halftone, barely resolved or dissolving into particles of information.
16.5″ x 22″
acrylic marker on paper

Simone Wicca
philosophicum ovumbecquerel daguerreotype in a small box
8.26″ x 0.51″ x 5.11″ (open box)
copper, silver (image). wood, velvet and cotton (box)

Todd Paige
On the other side of the Fence
Hand made print of digital photo
13″ x 15.25″
Platinum Palladium on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag

Trinity Kai
As an Act of Resistance
39″ x 40.5″
Cyanotype on fabric with copper wire and hand applied wax

Wlodek Witek
Skudneshavn Harbour
on the southern end of Karmøy Island on the West Coast of Norway
7″ x 9.5″
Saltprint from calotype negative

Yu Yan
Blueprint #45
Diazotype on paper
33″ X 51″ X 1″
Photogram, paper

Additional Artists

Exhibiting artist invited by jurors Adam Finkelston and James Meara

Paloma Nunez-Rugueiro
Entre El Siempre Y El Jamás

Matthew Magruder
Chicago Diptych

Leah Wells
When Women Were Birds

Keith Dull
The Pandemic Opens – Take a Field Trip to Parsburg

Kayla Bedey
Bond Between Earth and Sky

Katrina Dienno
Joan Of Arc

Jacob Wachal
Tanday

Dana Christensen
Gnarled

Dan Baird-Miller
Stuck

Carla Taylor
Out of the Ashes