Drum Roll Please: Risography for all!

Directangle Press Residency

The following are a selection of risograph works produced by artists while in residence at Directangle Press. Directangle, under studio founder and manager, Josh Dannin, has hosted and collaborated with well over 100 artists since the program’s inception. For more information please visit: https://www.directanglepress.com/

Mark Choi

A sitting African elephant joins a woolly mammoth in this composition. The background is printed in a warm red and minty teal layer with flying birds over the elephant and a silhouette of a tree behind the mammoth.

Arrival
Risograph-printed folio containing 7 prints and a booklet
9.25″x6″ Edition of 20
2023
Image courtesy of the artist.
Web: marcchoi.com
IG: @more_underlines

Amze Emmons

The text of a poem, biological explanation, and Fibonacci sequence diagrams sit upon layered images of sea shells in browns and grays.

Spreads from Tidings 1–3
Risograph poster zines
17″x11″ (unfolded)
2023
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Web: amzeemmons.com
IG: @amzeland

Olivia Fredericks

 

A grid of fine, red lines at offset angles are printed on a sheet of cream and moldy green handmade paper.

*incoming
Risograph
10″x11″x8″
2023
Photo by Neighboring States, courtesy of the artist.
Web: oliviamfredricks.com
IG: @oliviamfredricks

Lindsey Larsen & Wes Larsen

A fanciful, deteriorating island surrounded by a hazy black halo. Above, an inset of the heads of flowers seemingly emitting pollen.

Butler, Cook, Chauffeur, Maid
Three color risograph with exposed kettle stitch
9.5”x6.2” (closed) 60 pages
2025
Web: what-that.studio
IG: @lnsylrsn / @weslarsen

Valeria Guillén

Dirty Fingers Multiple color risograph book with laser cut elements 11″x8.5″x.75″ Edition of 23 2025 Photo courtesy of the artist. Web: valeria-guillen.com IG: @measure_twice_cut_1ce

Arantza Peña Popo

Undulating layers of white line work evoking coral and wood are surrounded by wisps of cloud and stars on a dark blue ground.

Interjection
Five color risograph accordion book
8″x6.5″ (folded); 8″x26″ (unfolded)
2025
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Web: arantzapopo.com
IG: @_ara_pena_

Amira Pualwan

Heart of the Labyrinth
Risograph and monotype
10″x8″
2023
Image courtesy of the artist.
Web: afpprints.com
IG: @mirkat239

Genevieve Sachs

Bookworms in G-strings II
Suite of six, four color risograph prints in maple frames, wallpaper (vintage, salvaged from a dumpster in Athens, Greece)
18″x12″ each, Edition of 20
2023
Photo of installation at Associate Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland courtesy of the artist.
Web: genevievesachs.com
IG: @genevieve_ugh

Alexandros Skouras

The left shoulder, upper arm, and chest of a figure rendered in layers of cream and brown populates this image. On the arm are tattoos in blue that reference Indigenous motifs of the Americas. The tattoos are labeled "2, 5, 4" implying a guide to their meaning.

GPU // Graphics Processing Unit
Book: risograph prints, varying paper (size, weight color), metal prong fasteners, cutouts
17″x11″ (closed)
2024
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Web: askouras.com
IG: @kitchkitchkitch

Jackson Taylor

The shape of Hispaniola--Haiti and the Dominican Republic--is printed in black surrounded by a yellow outline. Beneath, the text "Nuestra Futura Isla" (Our Future Island) is created by a the ground of abstracted swooping marks in gray and orange.

Detail from As Ghosts Teeth White Spiral-bound risograph book 14″x11″ (closed) 2024 Image courtesy of the artist. Web: jacksontaylorstudio.com IG: @jaxontaylor4

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