The artwork of play: Laurie Szujewska’s distinctive strategy to letterpress printing
Residing up on Sonoma Mountain, Laurie Szujewska (shoe yév skä) explores her fascination with letterpress printing, utilizing a classic Vandercook Common I press. “It’s out there to me for the creative technique of play,” stated Laurie.
She doesn’t use the press because the reproducing machine it was designed for, however as a “mark-making” device. As an alternative of manufacturing multiples of an deliberately designed type, she manipulates kinds, working the identical sheet of paper via the press many occasions to see what would possibly occur. In recent times, she has been slicing up prints to reconfigure into collage.
The complete breadth of Laurie’s work might be seen on her web site, EnsatinaPress.com, named for the big-eyed salamander with a shiny orange underbelly that lives on the mountain. The ensatina, which has no lungs however breathes via its moist pores and skin, is stuffed with surprises, very similar to Laurie’s artwork course of.
Early in her profession, Laurie labored within the printing trades in New York Metropolis, the place she additionally performed with the band The Chairs, and co-founded the music, dance, and intermedia venue Roulette. After receiving her MFA from the Yale College of Artwork, she labored as an award-winning designer and artwork director for Adobe Programs, the place she created the favored digital typeface Giddyup. She taught for a few years at UC Davis.
Laurie lives in a geodesic dome on the mountain with husband John Sheehy, an area storyteller, and their Jack Russell terrier Henry. Her work is presently on view at Wine Snob, a tasting room in Glen Ellen.
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Gadgets developing
Adobe – Fundamental St. intersection IS/MND – Please mark your calendar to attend and put together your feedback. Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is tentatively scheduled to carry a public listening to on April 30, 2024, to contemplate the adopting a Mitigated Adverse Declaration for this key intersection. Agendas are posted seven days prior at https://sonoma‐county.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.
The Penngrove Visitors Examine is predicted mid-April. Supervisor Rabbitt’s workplace will announce a city corridor assembly to debate it.
Lyndi Brown is a Petaluma / Penngrove neighborhood volunteer. She was named Good Egg 2016 by Petaluma Downtown Affiliation. She is an honorary Rear Admiral within the Petaluma Navy (not army: it’s an honorary title for selling the Metropolis as a vacationer vacation spot. Energetic with Penngrove Social Firemen and Village Community of Petaluma, she wants a trip. E mail Lyndi at [email protected]
