Creekside Studio/Gallery Shoal Creek and PrintAustin2021, Jan 15-Feb 13

Please join us for PrintAustin January 15-February 13, as we feature a collaboration with Gallery Shoal Creek artist, Koichi Yamamoto, and showcase new editions at Creekside Studio with studio artist, Tina Weitz. Two special online Creekside events will also be held on February 6, for PrintAustin’s PrintExpo:

an artist talk with Koichi Yamamoto
and
a curating demonstration with Creekside Master Printer, Tracy Mayrello.

Registration is free and online at www.printexpo.org. The studio will be available by appointment only, contact us @hello@creeksidestudio.com

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Tina Weitz Part of Austin Chronicle feature with Austin Studio Tour

Sugar Cane Twister RTP1

Sugar Cane Twister RTP1

Many thanks to Big Medium and the Austin Chronicle as Creekside Studio artist, Tina Weitz, has been selected with 9 other artists to be featured for The Austin Chronicle's Themed Tour, Art Inspired Beyond City Limits. Themed tours are curated lists of artists on the Austin Studio Tour that are selected by some of the tour sponsors, centered around one theme and have a special section on AustinStudioTour.org. You can see the virtual selections Saturday, November 14, as the tour begins its first weekend. What a great way to start the tour!

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Austin Studio Tour with Tina Weitz @ Creekside Studio

Telescoping Landscapes
what remains

Iao Valley, Maui edition of 24

Iao Valley, Maui edition of 24

In the Studio @creeksidestudioatx with Tina Weitz

Iao Valley, Maui

Maui’s beautiful rainforest trails and volcanic mountains of Iao Valley offer incredible vistas and scenery. They also hold a sacred spirituality in history and instill a place to respect what remains. What remains are the stories featured in my photogravure series, Telescoping Landscapes, a visual voice of the land.

One of the wettest areas of Maui, Iao Valley offers a rainforest and National Natural Landmark. Lava mountains offer breathtaking waterfalls and lush vegetation. This is the landscape which covers the phallic lava remnant known as Kanaloa, God of the Underworld, the Eye of the Needle.

The Iao land itself holds countless remains and history of an ancient warrior lookout.  There are sacred and secret ali’i burial grounds that include Kings. The Iao Needle also holds the past of those who lost their lives in an historical bloody battle.  So many fell their bodies blocked the Iao stream of water which ran red.  This battle site is called “Kepaniwai”, “the damming of the waters”.

In Weitz’s photogravure “Iao Valley”, the serene example of an early Maui settlement home stands beneath in the Valley. Part of history, and part of the continuing encroachment of the rest of the world to Maui’s shores. The green Kozo chine collé represents the history, mystery and the past of Maui. The brown ink a la poupeé creeps toward the past but is lost in the black and white of today.  The plant of the tarot root, significant in Hawaiian culture, watches below.

The next print in this series is from Maui’s Sugar Cane Fields. Watch for our writeup during Austin Studio Tour in the next week.  For sales information contact us at hello@creeksidestudioatx.com.

 

East Studio Tour - Process

This year during E.A.S.T. come visit PROCESS, an exhibition by newcomer on the scene Creekside Studio. Creekside is located in the rear portion of the Bale Creek Allen Gallery, #314 on the tour. You can reach the space via the hallway of Building 2 at Canopy .

PROCESS presents a variety of works on paper by artists that exhibit a keen understanding of the interaction of line and color. Although the subject matter is varietuous, the works on display have in common a strong grasp of formal issues and exploratory use of technique .The exhibition highlights examples of various print methods which can be produced via Creekside’s etching press, including monotype, woodblock linocut, etching, photo polymer gravure, polyester lithography and engraving. See the great possibilities held in just one press in this dynamic show.

PROCESS includes work by the following artists: Cordelia Blanchard, Marc Burckhardt, Veronica Ceci, Karen Kunc, Tracy Mayrello , Samson Mnisi, Jun Wan , Tina Weitz, Joan Winter , Koichi Yamamoto