Print Launch: Mari Eastman
Process/Process is pleased to release a new limited edition woodblock print with Mari Eastman in a one night event at Soccer Club Club.
Join us to celebrate with curated drinks and music.
Inaugural pricing, one night only.
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Known for her “off-hand intimacy,” Mari Eastman paints models, friends, animals, and flowers. Through its subject–a fox–and small scale, this new woodblock print embodies the artist’s affinity for ambience and affect. Visually, it also draws on the artist’s distinctly brushy color application–which writer Alex Jen characterized as a kind of painterly “traffic” on her works’ surfaces.
Eastman’s print collaboration with Process/Process began with the artist’s longheld interest in the print work of Edward Munch and the possibilities presented by Japanese woodcuts. Over several studio sessions, Eastman used wood carving tools to move her own visual language into the realm of the multiple. The resulting portrait of a fox renders her characteristic markmaking and colorful flatness as a woodblock print. The final works comprise four carved blocks, producing 34 varied impressions.
Full details about the print will be released on the occasion of its launch on September 5, when it will also be for sale on our website. For an advance preview or for inquiries, please contact hello@process-process.com.
Soccer Club Club is located 2923 N Cicero Ave, Chicago.
This event is free and open to the public.
Mari Eastman holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and she is faculty in the Department of Visual Arts (DoVA) at the Univesrity of Chicago. She has exhibited at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angles), The Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach), Cherry and Martin Gallery (Los Angeles), Victoria Miro (London), Colette (Paris), Barbara Gladstone Gallery (New York), the Berkeley Museum of Art, and numerous other venues. Her work has been included in such publications as Modern Painters, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Flash Art, The New Yorker, and on artforum.com. Eastman lives and works in Chicago, and this is her first print with Process/Process.