Represented Artists
Here at DIY Printing, we produce screen prints of existing artwork or allow our artists to create something completely new. Whether in a series or unique pieces, our artists create a collection of work that we display in our gallery space. We have these prints available for sale in our shop. The funds received from these sales go directly towards the artists and help keep the studio running.
mZ.iCARMz. Icar is an anonymous art collective composed primarily of Black Women. Our name is racIzM, backward. We started this collective to create works that celebrate Women, Global Blackness, and Play.
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ADD FUELADD FUEL is Portuguese visual artist Diogo Machado (b. 1980).
With a degree in Graphic Design from Lisbon's IADE – Creative University, he spent a few years working in design studios in Portugal, followed by an eight-month stint in Munich, Germany. Since 2007, he has been focusing exclusively on his artistic work. Starting out under the full name Add Fuel to the Fire, he first created a dark yet exuberant visual universe populated by a cast of slimy, eccentric and joyful creatures, influenced by a variety of interests ranging from video games to comics, animation, sci-fi, designer toys, and urban visual culture. In 2008, fascinated with the aesthetic possibilities of symmetrical patterning and tessellations, he shortened his moniker to Add Fuel and began redirecting his focus towards working with and reinterpreting the language of traditional tile design, and that of the Portuguese tin-glazed ceramic azulejo in particular. Effortlessly blending these two seemingly-irreconcilable visual idioms, his current practice seeks to combine traditional decorative elements with contemporary visual referents into new forms that reveal an impressive complexity and a masterful attention to detail. If, on the face of it, his work in small and medium sized tile panels, large-scale stencil and freehand painted murals, and print editions might seem simply a pastiche of classic formalism, a closer inspection rewards the viewer with a chaotic world of unequivocally original motifs and characters brimming with deep emotions. Creating balance and harmony from symmetrical repetitions, a build-up of layers and techniques of visual illusion such as trompe-l'œil, his multi-layered patterned compositions produce a poetic rhythm that plays with the viewer's perception and the (multiple) possibilities of interpretation. Exploring a wide range of both manual and digital techniques in the fields of drawing, painting, ceramics, and printing, his practice expresses a sophisticated dialogue between the old and the new, between heritage and modernity. Besides the numerous public art interventions he has been creating in various countries, he has also been showcasing his work in solo and group exhibitions in reputed galleries and museums. Diogo Machado lives and works in Cascais, Portugal. |
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BEAR CHAMPRivera is a Puerto Rican born, Chicago-based artist who has spent the last decade creating one of the most iconic national street art brands using the 'Bear Champ' as his moniker. He uses the iconic bear character to express his concepts, journeys, and, struggles to make it in the art world.
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EMPIRE CITIZENS
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"Empire Citizens is a guerrilla, street art exposé on the absurdity of modern society. With a populace more often willing to be entertained by improbable credence, pre-prepared allotments of the imagination and suspending disbelief in lieu of accepting the simple, but often hard truths, it has never been a better time to re-align. Through mass production of playfully sardonic imagery, the aim of the project is to sow seeds of skepticism and dissent in the long barren threshold of the collective consciousness. Through grassroots, global participation, shinning a lampooning mirror of existential disappointment, the direct but forgiving critique plays with the notion that our detriment and salvation are being offered at an intellectually discounted price. While hopefully stirring a desire for active, meaningful interactions for the observers, Empire Citizens hopes we may also achieve aspirations of working cooperatively towards a more creative, thoughtful and sustainable coexistence."
Excerpt from sosartcincinnati.com |
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Kevin T Kelly
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Kevin T. Kelly, born in 1960, graduated from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1987 with a B.F.A. in Sculpture. He moved to New York City in 1988, where he worked as a studio assistant to Tom Wesselmann for six years.
Kelly’s work is decidedly “Neo-Pop” or “Post-Pop”. Infused with a postmodern sensibility, contemporaneous subject matter, and executed in what the artist refers to as a “hyper-chromatic” palette, the paintings are not only redolent of contemporary issues and politics, but excel as studies in formal definition, composition and color. Allowing for open-ended lines of query and interpretation without the burdensome weight of didactic pretense, Kelly chooses to establish a dialogue with the viewer vis-à-vis the painted image rather than wag his finger sanctimoniously from an ivory tower like so much “Activist Art” does today. His work has been described as: “Roy Lichtenstein meets Dennis Hopper on Steroids.” It’s a wry, complex admixture of sardonic social commentary, the six o’clock news and the Sunday funnies. He currently lives in Covington, Kentucky and works in the Greater Cincinnati area. His paintings have appeared on the cover of New American Paintings in 2000 and 2003 and are featured in numerous public and private collections both in the United States and abroad, including Breitling S.A., The Kinsey Institute and Procter and Gamble. In addition to having taught as an adjunct professor at The Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Baker-Hunt Foundation in Covington, KY, he has also written critical review for Cincinnati CityBeat, Dialogue magazine, New Art Examiner and the online art journal, AEQAI. See examples of his work here. Limited Edition prints are available in our shop. |
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Clint Woods
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Clint Woods is a Cincinnati-based artist and designer, working by day as an Art Director for a local health information company and by night as a painter of surreal landscapes, which reveal to him the nature of his mind. Woods received his MFA in New Media from the College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP) at the University of Cincinnati and a BFA in Printmaking from Northern Kentucky University and has been featured in several local and regional exhibitions, in addition to being the recipient of the Hemera Foundation’s 2014 Tending Space Fellowship.
See examples of his work here. Limited Edition prints are available in our shop. |
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Dalek
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James Marshall, also known as Dalek, is an American artist and designer based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has published two books featuring his artwork and been included in many other books and magazine publications. His artwork has appeared on a wide variety of media, including sneakers, sculptures, and a Scion car.
Dalek's most recognizable work is his Space Monkey, a "grinning and malevolent" character, his own vision of a human being. See examples of his work here. |
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Leslie Shiels
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"Leslie Shiels grew up in Cincinnati and has been painting for most of her life. She received her training from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. She earned a BFA from the University in 1974. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums throughout the United States. Her work has become a part of numerous corporate and private collections, most of which are located in Cincinnati. Art critics have described her paintings as lush, powerful, and skillful works of art. She has used her painting as a vehicle to solve problems as they relate to life experiences. She has traveled and painted in many locations, some of her favorite spots being France, Colorado, and Connecticut. The artist currently resides in Indian Hill with her husband Buck and works out of her studio on Findlay St. in downtown Cincinnati."
Bio excerpt from Cincinnati Art Galleries. See examples of her work here. Limited edition prints available in our shop. |
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Jennifer Purdum
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"Jennifer Purdum has been exhibited internationally and nationally, including in “Printmaking Today” at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where her “Exodus Print Series” is part of the permanent collection. She has exhibited in Zig Zag Light Night, Gallery Svartaloft, Reykjanesbae, Iceland, AGallery in Chelsea , NYC, and at the Weston Art Gallery in Cincinnati.
Her current series of mixed media and print media have been an investigation of her love of objects, and objects' ability to act as placeholders for memory. The images are purposefully ambiguous, reading sometimes as object and sometimes as place; the photos, drawing and printed media overlap and blur the ability to feel oriented. Instead, the images challenge the idea of the concrete and the permanence of place. Purdum’s fascination with the transitory nature of place and objects probably began with her experience in living through Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, and she has continued to explore the topic since through printmaking, drawing and assemblage." Bio excerpt from Miami University. See examples of her work here. |
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Julia Oldham
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Julia Oldham is an artist and storyteller who was raised by a physicist, a rock hound and a pack of dogs in rural Maryland. Born the same year as the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Oldham has been consumed by scientific curiosity her entire life, and has sought through her work to understand the unknowable and transcend humanness. She blends digital media and drawing to tell stories that she finds both troubling and beautiful. She frequently collaborates with scientists and finds hidden love stories in particle physics and theoretical mathematics, and ghost stories in wetland ecology. Oldham builds her alternate realities by combining photography and video with fantastical hand-drawn characters and landscapes; and this process results in work that rides a fine line between the real and unreal.
See more of her work on her website. Limited edition prints available in our shop. |
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Jonpaul Smith
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"Jonpaul Smith is a Cincinnati, Ohio transplant, having grown up in Logansport, Indiana, a real small town about forty-five minutes north of Purdue University. Just good farm country—a “one-Walmart-town”, as Jonpaul lovingly refers to it. Having been raised in a farming community and under the influence of his father's liquor store and mother's crafting practices, Smith utilizes corporate refuse and branding to creating patterns and stories about how we identify with the things we consume."
Read the full interview with Jonpaul at Five Dots. See more of his work on his website: JonpaulCSmith.com Limited edition prints available in our shop. |
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Andy Sohoza
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Andy Sohoza is a unique artist with a rough upbringing. He simply did the best with what he was given. Approaching thirty with little to lose, he gave everything to art school. It gave him everything back and then some. He is a visual artist and illustrator who lives in Newport, Kentucky; still riding his skateboard as much as he can. His artwork is playful and colorful with a sharp tongue. He is known for the dichotomy of political and social commentary presented in a seemingly whimsical fashion. His illustrations are amazing, hand drawn images from his imagination and brought to life through screen printing. This work is no different showing a refection on our time today with Sohoza's caricature telling a story about America.
See more of Andy's work on his website: Sohoza.com Limited edition prints available in our shop. |
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Aaron Kent
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Aaron Kent was born in Springfield, Ohio in June of 1972. He studied commercial art in high school, and attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he studied fine art and sculpture. He left after two years and began working at Casting Arts and Technology; a fine art bronze foundry in Cincinnati, where he studied bronze casting, metal fabrication, and bronze restoration. He also worked at Suders Art Store learning the skills of framing, matting, and art restoration. He returned to the Art Academy in 2008 to finish his degree, graduating in 2009. He founded an artist based silkscreen co-op and studio called DIY Printing. Aaron still runs the studio and works as a screen printer, printing for artists and other arts organizations.
See more of Aaron's work at www.aarontkent.art Limited edition prints available in our shop. |
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Andrew Au
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Born in Chicago in 1972, Andrew Au was influenced from an early age by science fiction, religion, reading, illustration, and art. With each series of work he produces, he creates a working narrative that sets the parameters for the aesthetic conventions he uses. The concept for each series is the driving force and sets constraints on each body of work. He considers most of his work to be illustrations for parallel and fictitious experiences, academic research of the absurd, artifacts of the intangible. He teaches at Miami University Regionals and maintains Fuse Press Studio with his wife, Jennifer Purdum, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
See more of Andrew Au's work on his website: au-purdum.com/andrew-au Limited edition prints and etchings by Andrew available in our shop. |
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Jenny Ustick
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Jenny Roesel Ustick is Assistant Professor of Practice and Foundations Coordinator in the School of Art at the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning (DAAP). She manages large-scale public murals, with eleven walls in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky; she has also worked on projects in Miami Beach, Florida and in the Villa Crespo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ustick's studio practice is based in drawing and painting while branching out into spatial and time-based work. She is a member of two related collaborative groups, Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running (with Denise Burge and Lisa Siders), and Black Forest Project (Denise Burge, Lisa Siders, and Tracy Featherstone), whose work includes video, animation, sound/music, sculpture, and installations. The groups have exhibited nationally (including the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati) and at international film festivals. See more of Jenny Ustick's work on her website: www.jennyroeselustick.com Limited edition prints available in our shop. |
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Matt Kish
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Matt Kish was born June 4, 1969 in Oberlin, Ohio and currently works as an artist and illustrator in Dayton Ohio. He is best known for his monograph "Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page," an illustrated edition of Moby Dick that features one illustration for every page of Herman Melville's novel. He is also known for his illustrated edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Matt Kish is a Ohio-based librarian and self-taught artist who has turned the daily act of drawing into a vehicle for indexing and cataloging his life and experiences.
See more of Matt Kish's artwork on his website: www.matt-kish.com Limited edition prints available in our shop. |
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