Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking is dedicated to creating and promoting the art and craft of the original print. Flatbed Press, the publishing arm of the center, collaborates and publishes monotypes, editions, and artist portfolios. Established in 1989, Flatbed has worked with hundreds of artists from all areas of the globe and has a deep inventory of works by artists which include John Alexander, Terry Allen, Adrian Armstrong, Miguel Aragon, Michael Ray Charles, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Luis Jimenez, Melissa Miller, Celia Muñoz, Liliana Porter, and James Surls.
Prints created at Flatbed are in important collections including MoMA, the Library of Congress, the Whiney, the Blanton Museum of Art, the High Museum, and many others. Recent collaborations with Nick & Jake have resulted in the livre d’artiste publication, Norma Trist. Flatbed is also involved with publications of emerging artists of color including Adrian Armstrong and Danielle Demetre East. Flatbed’s 2020- 2021 publications have included new work by John Alexander, Adrian Armstrong, Lance Letscher, and Ben Muñoz.
Contact: Katherine Brimberry, Director and Master Printer
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Artwork
NORMA TRIST; OR PURE CARBON: A STORY OF THE INVERSION OF THE SEXES
Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
Livre d’artiste
Folios: Screen print exterior, photo etching with flocking interior
Colophon: photo etching
Book: Screen printed text
Portfolio clam-shell box: 12 1⁄2” x 12 1⁄2” x 4 1⁄2”
Folios: 12” x 24” open, 12” x 12” closed
Accordian book 10” x 532” unfolded
Edition of 15
The 6 folio plates were printed from photo-etched polymer plates by Katherine Brimberry using graphite based ink and flocked with loose graphite powder on Rives BFK paper at Flatbed Press. The serigraphed text was printed by Pepe Coronado on Rives lightweight paper. The typographic design is by Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin
Printed by Katherine Brimberry, text binding and box by Kaoru Y. Perry at Cloverleaf Studio, Published by Flatbed Press
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NORMA TRIST; OR PURE CARBON: A STORY OF THE INVERSION OF THE SEXES
Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin
Livre d’artiste
Folios: Screen print exterior, photo etching with flocking interior
Colophon: photo etching
Book: Screen printed text
Portfolio clam-shell box: 12 1⁄2” x 12 1⁄2” x 4 1⁄2”
Folios: 12” x 24” open, 12” x 12” closed
Accordian book 10” x 532” unfolded
Edition of 15
The 6 folio plates were printed from photo-etched polymer plates by Katherine Brimberry using graphite based ink and flocked with loose graphite powder on Rives BFK paper at Flatbed Press. The serigraphed text was printed by Pepe Coronado on Rives lightweight paper. The typographic design is by Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin
Printed by Katherine Brimberry, text binding and box by Kaoru Y. Perry at Cloverleaf Studio, Published by Flatbed Press
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NORMA TRIST; OR PURE CARBON: A STORY OF THE INVERSION OF THE SEXES
A co-publication between the artists Nick Vaughan & Jake Margolin and Flatbed Press (Austin) this Livre d’Artiste marks the first reprinting of a landmark 1895 novel written in Lagrange Texas, by John Westley Carhart featuring astonishingly
progressive defenses of homosexuality and likely the first unambiguously lesbian heroine in American fiction.
Paired with images of what now stands in locations where there used to be queer bars across the state, “NORMA TRIST” stands as a record of Texas’s underappreciated queer history. The layout of the text is based on the artists’ 2016 physical installation: ‘50 States: Texas’, in which the complete text was stenciled over 100 linear feet of paper in loose graphite powder which was degraded over the course of its exhibition by airflow, insects and errant viewers’ fingers .
Each chapter is illustrated with an image of what currently stands on the sites of historic lesbian and gay bars across the state of Texas.
Mother
Annalise Gratovich, 2021
Chine collé woodcut with hand-dyed Japan mulberry
Image size: 66” x 36”
Paper size: 71” x 40”
Edition of 7
Printed by Annalise Gratovich and Tracy Mayrello, Published by Flatbed Press
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The Undertaker
Annalise Gratovich, 2021
Chine collé woodcut with hand-dyed Japan mulberry
Image size: 66” x 36”
Paper size: 71” x 40”
Edition of 7
Printed by Annalise Gratovich and Tracy Mayrello, Published by Flatbed Press
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Continuous Line
Lance Letscher, 2021
Etching with aquatint and relief viscosity roll
Image size: 35 3⁄4” x 47 3/8”
Paper size: 38 7/8” x 50 1⁄2”
Edition of 7
Printed by Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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Therapy Bird
Lance Letscher, 2021
Color soft-ground etching with hand coloring
Paper size: 30” x 22”
Image size: 20” x 16”
Edition of 30
Printed by Katherine Brimberry, Published by Flatbed Press
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The Six
, 2020
Color drypoint with aquatint and chine collé elements.
Image 36" x 24"
Paper 45" x 31"
Edition of 6
Printed by Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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Epilogue
Ben Muñoz, 2020
Chiaroscuro woodcut on Japan Okawara
Image size: 62” x 36”
Paper: 66” x 40”
Edition of 15
Printed by Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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Heed
Ben Muñoz, 2020
Chiaroscuro woodcut on Japan Okawara
Image size: 62” x 36”
Paper: 66” x 40”
Edition of 15
Printed by Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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Happy Family
John Alexander, 2020
Chine collé polymer gravure on Hand-dyed Japan Okawara and Arches cover buff
Image Size: 30" x 20"
Paper Size: 40" x 29"
Edition of 40
$3,500
Printed by Katherine Brimberry and Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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Portrait EV10
Adrian Armstrong, 2020
Chine collé monotype elements over soft-ground etching with relief roll
Image size: 36” x 24”
Paper size 41” x 29”
Variable Edition of 16
Printed by Katherine Brimberry and Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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Portrait EV5
Adrian Armstrong, 2020
Chine collé monotype elements over soft-ground etching with relief roll
Image size: 36” x 24”
Paper size 41” x 29”
Variable Edition of 16
Printed by Katherine Brimberry and Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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3 prints from the Portrait series
Adrian Armstrong, 2020
Chine collé monotype elements over soft-ground etching with relief roll
Image size: 36” x 24”
Paper size 41” x 29”
Variable Edition of 16
Printed by Katherine Brimberry and Alex Giffen, Published by Flatbed Press
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Adrian Armstrong signing prints in the Flatbed studio.