Wingate Studio Collaboration

Wingate Studio Collaboration, 2017

Wingate Studio is pleased to announce six new etchings by San Antonio-based artist Daniel Rios Rodriguez: Mim’s, South Parish, Three Stones, Asa Nisi Masa, Snake Theory and PNT. Created in summer of 2017 during his first collaboration with Wingate Studio, each work is a single plate etching demonstrative of the artist’s agility and predilection for drawing. In the studio the artist moved between plates and processes with ease, working on multiple plates simultaneously and making use of many of the tools and techniques available to him. Beginning with sugar lift and soft ground, the artist was able to achieve additional desired effects with spit bite, burnishing, hard ground, dry point, and electric engraving. The plates for the four larger etchings are oval, the shape of many of the artist’s paintings.

While less abstract than some of his paintings, these etchings evoke a totemic and shrine-like quality emblematic of his work. The artist has developed a personal mythology whose symbols emerge time and again, both as visual descriptions (a double eye as an offering to an inamorata, a flower with an exaggerated bulbous center) and incarnate (marbles, rope, feathers). As Roberta Smith wrote in a New York Times Review, his works “are like present-day icons devoted to nature and abstraction that also take tips from the early modernists who merged them. Rotating among plant forms, glimpses of outer space and schematic self-portraits, they are indebted to Marsden Hartley’s robust brushwork and rich palette, Forrest Bess’s visionary quirkiness and Arthur Dove’s collage-assemblages.”

Wingate Studio publishes fine art etchings created by invited artists in collaboration with our master printers. The press advances the work of artists by presenting their work to the public through gallery shows, hosting museum and student groups, lectures, open studios, and by placing work in important public and private collections internationally.

History

Wingate Studio first opened in 1985 as a print workshop where founder Peter Pettengill printed work for Louise Bourgeois, Walton Ford, Sol LeWitt, Robert Motherwell, and other artists. Wingate Studio began publishing its own prints in the mid ’90s by New England-based artists, and has since expanded its publishing program to include artists of international acclaim, including Ambreen Butt, Walton Ford, Josephine Halvorson, Robert Kushner, Barbara Takenaga, and many others. Wingate Studio continues to work in both modalities, both printing editions for other publishers and galleries, and publishing its own prints in collaboration with contemporary artists. The press is renowned for its specialization and technical expertise in the age-old process of multiple plate aquatint etching.

In 2013 Peter’s son James Pettengill joined as a second master printer, after having grown up in the print studio, moving away and starting a gallery in Philadelphia, and returning to the place he loves. James continues to print, and now co-directs the publishing program with Peter. Alyssa Robb also joined in 2013 as the director of communications and visuals.

The studio was once Peter’s grandfather’s portrait photography studio, and the land has been farmed for four generations. Wingate has supported both farming and artistic process for over 100 years.

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