Drum Roll Please: Risography for all!
About the Artists
Ry McCullough is an artist and educator, working in Tampa, Florida. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio where he concentrated in the areas of printmaking and sculpture. Upon completing his undergraduate work, he served as the Director of Sculptural Studies and taught printmaking at Stivers School for the Arts. McCullough received his MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. He currently serves the Department of Art + Design as an Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Tampa. McCullough has exhibited nationally and internationally and is the founder of the Standard Action Press Collaborative Zine Project and a founding member of the 24-Hands Printmaking Collective.
Nick Satinover is an infinitely curious maker of things, currently residing outside Nashville, TN. He works across several media but is often found in the printmaking studio. He earned his BFA from Wright State University, Dayton, OH, and his MFA from Illinois State University, Normal, IL. He has been an artist-in-residence at Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Belgium, Kala Arts Center, Berkeley, CA, In-Cahoots, Petaluma, CA , and the Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA. His work has been shown widely in juried, group, and solo exhibitions across the United States. He is an Associate Professor of Print Media at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, where he coordinates the studio art BFA degree. He shares a home with his twin boys, partner Brittany, and rescue animals (Neko and Gracie). His work is represented by Manneken Press, Bloomington, IL.
Artist:
Ry McCullough (above) & Nick Satinover (below)
Social media: @small_bars_small_bars
Website: http://smallbars.art
Exhibition
Drum Roll Please: Risography for all!
Artist Statement
small_bars is Ry McCullough and Nick Satinover, interdisciplinary artists whose works utilize printmaking processes and formalist strategies. Within their collaborative practice they explore the structural authority of their “band” name moniker, small_bars. This ambiguous name serves as an all-encompassing banner which simultaneously references pixels on a screen, lines of type, halftone processes, and the physical clubs and venues their former bands played.
Since 2018 small_bars has created an ecology of audio recordings, videos, printed ephemera, performative events, and structural arrangements, all of which exemplify their mantra of Conversation, Factory, Archive, a generative feedback loop of ideas, images, sounds and activity. This collaborative effort seeks to create a space where the acts of publishing, printing and performance co-exist.
Recent projects have examined the primacy of the landscape as image, experience and source of inspiration, the subversion of audience/performer roles within presentation settings, and the linear correlation of audio compositions and book structures.
Foliage Array Work
Lasercut Risographs and Vinyl Text
Size variable, installed at Farmer Family Gallery, OSU Lima, Lima, OH
2024
Foliage Array Work
Lasercut Risographs and Vinyl Text
Size variable, installed at Farmer Family Gallery, OSU Lima, Lima, OH
2024
Layers and Loops
16 page risograph and laserjet printed zine
5.5” x 8.5”
2022
Layers and Loops (Performance)
Improvised audio performance with audience participation via instructional zine
20 minute duration
2022
Part of “NO FINE PRINT” event at MAPC Kent State
(in) brief color fields
Risograph prints, audio, folding hand-cut sleeve
13:52 audio runtime.
https://Smallbars.bandcamp.com/album/in-brief-color-fields
2.5 x 3.5” x 1” closed
2021
(in) brief color fields
Risograph prints, audio, folding hand-cut sleeve
13:52 audio runtime.
https://Smallbars.bandcamp.com/album/in-brief-color-fields
2.5 x 3.5” x 1” closed
2021
spring_stills
set of risograph postcards with accompanying audio
33:56 audio runtime
https://smallbars.bandcamp.com/album/spring-stills
4”X6” stacked
2023
spring_stills
set of risograph postcards with accompanying audio
33:56 audio runtime
https://smallbars.bandcamp.com/album/spring-stills
4”X6” stacked
2023
[WINDOWS]
16 page risograph zine with handmade and hand-cut cover; cover paper by Kayleigh Messler Vinson
23:00 audio runtime
4” x 5.25”
https://smallbars.bandcamp.com/album/windows
2025
[WINDOWS]
16 page risograph zine with handmade and hand-cut cover; cover paper by Kayleigh Messler Vinson
23:00 audio runtime
4” x 5.25”
https://smallbars.bandcamp.com/album/windows
2025