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  • Emil Lukas at Durham Press printing Double Event Bubble monotypes
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  • Durham Press Emil Lukas Center Hum East and West Screenprint Edition
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  • Emil Lukas Durham Press screens hand wrapped with thread for creating thread screenprint uniques and editions
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  • Emil Lukas Durham Press Assembly Major and Minor Woodblock and Relief Print Edition
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  • Emil Lukas Durham Press Editioning Assembly Major and Minor woodblock relief print
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  • Emil Lukas Durham Press Double Event Puddle series of unique monotypes
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DURHAM PRESS featuring EMIL LUKAS (screenprint, etching, relief, and woodblock editions and uniques)

 

Durham Press has collaborated with Emil Lukas for almost 25 years to create unique prints and editions which draw on his characteristic body of work, namely his Thread and Larvae Paintings. Lukas' studio practice is process driven. Often using unconventional materials, he combines both calculated and unpredictable actions to create compositions which seem to unfold of their own accord: his Thread Paintings form as he methodically hand-wraps individual threads around a framework, while Larvae Paintings challenge this control as larvae dipped in ink move across the surface to produce their own organic composition. Lukas' prints with Durham Press do not simply translate these series into a new medium, but act as a record of his unique process. To transform a Thread Painting into screenprint, Lukas must separate what would be its final form by wrapping each layer of thread on a new frame - like an exploded diagram, printmaking encourages Lukas to dissect these processes by isolating each action before unifying them into the sum of their component parts.

 

Lukas' latest work with Durham Press is a continuation of his previous Bubble monotype series, initially inspired by his plaster-cast dot-grid paintings made from bubble wrap. The monotypes use a matrix of interlocking plates to create a debossed surface, bringing physicality to their loose, hazy imagery. The relationship of background and foreground distort as washes of color being to visually blur, creating a fog-like abstraction from the common material of bubble wrap. Each print fluctuates as the eye searches for something tangible, always finding new forms in their structured but nebulous atmosphere.

 

To learn more about our work with Emil Lukas, please visit his artist page and viewing rooms below: