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Graphic Impressions is SGCI’s journal. We are open to interviews, academic articles, studio visits (showcases of your work), reviews of books or shows, and demonstrations. All submissions are reviewed by the Graphic Impressions Review Committee.

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October 2024

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Curated by Delita Martin:

Visibility: Seeing and Being Seen

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Elaborate plaited braids sit isolated in a white ground, independent of the head of the subject.

Rabea Ballin

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A figure with two sets of arms gesticulates to the sky and the earth. Her gown is composed of feathers in red and green. Two biomorphic forms in green flanks the figure. Beneath, a volcano smokes, transitioning into the figure.

Minna Resnick

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A woodcut portrait of a woman sits in front of a ground composed of biomorphic patterns in warm colors. She wears large earrings of colorful circles.

Jamaal Barber

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A knot of vipers and wasps are pierced by bloody daggers.

Hailey Quick

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Two men embrace and look out at the audience. They have star burst nimbuses behind their heads and are surrounded by gold text on a jade green ground.

Gabriel Garcia Roman

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A young girl in braids in pink stands with her back to the audience over a ground of botanicals and a split fountain circle evoking the moon.

Chloe Alexander

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A woven bird nest is filled with leaves with transfers of vintage Black children in school class photos.

Ann “Sole Sister” Johnson

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A woman looks out at the audience surrounded by decorative and handmade papers.

Angela Pilgrim

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A tower composed of mobile homes sits over a background of text.

Alejandra Carrillo

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Two bug eyed, scaled figures in overalls are at a counter or table where one is spoon-feeding the other.

Becci Spruill: Into the Wild

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A relief printed portrait of the artist is printed on pink and blue fabric and appliquéd onto a quilt with the phrase "It's not that bad, just smile" stitched behind the figure. A subtle smiley face overlays the artist's face.

Stephanie Alaniz: Into the Wild

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They Don't Want to See These Hands, American Flag, White cloth gloves, 10x16in, 2022

Cameron Gray: Into the Wild

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Maiz is Who You Are Who We Are Lithograph, 15" x 20", 2022.

Juana Estrada Hernandez: Into the Wild

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An accordion book with a pop-up center panel of hands outstretched and overlapping from the spine toward the edges of the book. On the primary pages text is above a half circle in blue filled with hands.

Maritza Dávila: The Next Chapter

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Tribute to Star Varner

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July 2024

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Curated by H Schenck:

Artists’ Proof

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A mural on a doorway featuring tie-dye like spray paint and a figure wearing bunny ears laying in a shopping cart with spray paint cans.

ZICRONA

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Two magnets with like poles facing one another, held down with tape on a door sill. Title references the book "Cruel Optimism," by Lauren Berlant. The more we desire something, the further away it gets.

Nicole Leung

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Image of an older couple sitting in the center of the pattern of braids

Kai Offett

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An exploded diagram of the process of injecting hormones with a primary image of the injection in an abdomen and smaller windows with the filling of the syringe and a collection of jewelry and barrettes around the vial and alcohol swab. In the lower right corner is the phrase "i thought sweetly of my sin"

Juniper Darling

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Ten cornered rats printed in black make up the background of this print where a red star dissolves in the center

Jose Casales

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Threads of various blue hues woven together into a rectangle. In the middle of the woven rectangle is a woven image of a yellow and brown two-story home.

Jensen Delius

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A pile of stickers of a goat skull

Jackson Shane

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Two reclining nude figures in orange and pink sit in the background of a foreground of a rolling hill of fruit lying upon the ground. The scene is surrounded by a lime green scalloped frame painted on the wall.

emmalyn mueller

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A digital print trompe l'oeil of a 70s era album cover showing a variety of women of color overlayed in graffiti. Above the title How to be Culturally Appropriative with Appropriative crossed out

Babs Stevenson

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A relief printed portrait of the artist is printed on pink and blue fabric and appliquéd onto a quilt with the phrase "It's not that bad, just smile" stitched behind the figure. A subtle smiley face overlays the artist's face.

Stephanie Alaniz: Into the Wild

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They Don't Want to See These Hands, American Flag, White cloth gloves, 10x16in, 2022

Cameron Gray: Into the Wild

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Maiz is Who You Are Who We Are Lithograph, 15" x 20", 2022.

Juana Estrada Hernandez: Into the Wild

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A lithographic translation of a Procreate digital drawing featuring layers of bright colors in various textures and brushes culminating in a deep, nonobjective composition.

Richard Peterson: The Next Chapter

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An enormous plaited composition of monoprints on fabric depicting nude men in evocative poses and couplings. The palette and floral elements are reminiscent of late Matisse.

In Plane Sight: Recent Monoprints by Harold Lohner

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April 2024

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Curated by Zeinab Saab and Olivia Richardson:

CondemNATION

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Our Promise, screen and relief, 11”x14”, 2021

Entangled Roots Press

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Untitled (from the project, No Medicine for the Bite of a White Snake), inkjet print, 2022

Tehan Ketema

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Revolution Until Victory, Printed and Embroidered Mesh, 17’ x 9’, 2020, Made in collaboration with PSA STL

Kiki Salem

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Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.

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Thương Hoài Trần

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Mizin Shin

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Aaron Coleman's Delicate and Filled with Dynamite, a handmade boat constructed from salvaged basketball court flooring is stranded on a sandbags filled with rubber mulch from turf football fields.

Aaron Coleman

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CeaseFire Now #1 Digital Print, 11" x 17”, 2023

Sarah Farahat

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Mestizaje, 2018 Linocut & chine colle 22x30

Rene H. Arceo: Indelible

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They Don't Want to See These Hands, American Flag, White cloth gloves, 10x16in, 2022

Cameron Gray: Into the Wild

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January 2024

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A Message From the Coordinator

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Curated Exhibition by Althea Murphy-Price

Reflective Looking: Black Printmakers Finding Self and Community Through Print

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Make A Joyful Noise Mixed media and tambourine, 8" diameter Photo credit: CJ Benninger A small portrait sits at the center of an ornately decorated, bejeweled tambourine.

Rashaun Rucker

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Guinan Screenprint, Caran D’ache, hand-applied ink, charcoal, digital collage on paper; 50”x38"; 2022 A multimedia collage of photos and print layers with the artist's face edited into vintage photos.

Tyanna J. Buie

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to know each other’s languages are our own Linocut, relief ink, textile weaving on 280 gsm BFK Rives; 44" x 30"; 2022 Variable Edition of 4 A woman's head in profile has elaborate braids that form leaves or feathers filled with colorful plaited paper.

Tanekeya Word

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Aaron Coleman

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Aporia: Almanac, Baltimore Iron gall ink on handmade flax paper, 22" x 30" irregular, 2016 Hand replicated infographics taken from weather reports in US cities with the highest murder rates. This piece represents, Baltimore.

jina valentine

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A barber's chair sits in a dark gallery space. The metal work has been gold plated, making it lush, like a throne.

Dr. Faisal Abdu’Allah

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Skin in the Game: Extreme Embarrassment, Digital Print, 50”x38”, 2021 Halftone portraits of the artist printed in process, CMYK, layers at various angles to produce a rainbow, kaleidoscopic portrait

Mildred Beltré

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BANNED! Beloved, Toni Morrison; pigmented ink jet print; 20” x 16”; 2023 A sky is composed of hexagons, numbers, and text from Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved.

April Katz: The Next Chapter

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Maiz is Who You Are Who We Are Lithograph, 15" x 20", 2022.

Juana Estrada Hernandez: Into the Wild

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October 2023

Curated Exhibition by Yoonmi Nam and Ruben Castillo:

The Soft Edges

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146 hand cut aluminum plates, screenprinted with the statements made by each public figure accused of sexual assault or harassment since Harvey Weinstein 96 plates shown displayed, erased through public interaction and maintained through performances to replace erased plates

Alex Younger

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Various forms are wrapped in patterned paper designed by the artist as part of a performance

Derick Wycherly

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Detail of screenprint of the word bestizand (they quarrel) on two layers of tissue paper so that the words appeared staggered between the two sheets

Golnar Adili

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Interior of a box with gloved mannequin hands covered in clown makeup.

Henry Gepfer

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Low relief sculpture mimicking an intricate patterned rug, made with modified shoe soles imprinting ground & sifted Oklahoma red dirt

Rena Detrixhe

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Photo of the artist floating on the Newtown Creek, pulling marbling-like images from pollution and residue on the surface of the creek

sTo Len

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A background radiating textures alluding to nature outlines the shape of a polar bear. On the right, the shape of a human family is filled with imagery of a busy, and crumbling, urban cityscape

Sydney Cross: The Next Chapter

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A group of large scale relief printed figures are arranged with varying opacity of ink to imply atmospheric perspective. The figures, referencing the working class are wheat pasted to graffiti walls

Carlos Llobet: Into the Wild

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Summer 2023

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Sharon Jue: Curated Exhibition

Letterpress Saves My Soul Daily

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Jenn Graves: I am my brother's keeper

Jen Graves

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Untitled by Javier Alba

Javier Alba

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WilxBlox X by Jenny Wilkson

Jenny Wilkson

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Signals by Lois Harada Twenty-five framed relief prints of nautical flag code signals.

Lois Harada

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Say Her Name by Desiree Aspiras

Desiree Aspiras

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Land of the Free by Andy Polk

Andy Polk: The Next Chapter

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"We Hold Space and Time Between Us" Monotype and screenprint with starburst animation projected onto panel and floor in an amorphous shape.

Matthew Willie Garcia: Into the Wild

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