2009
William Fick
About the Project
In 2009, supported by a grant from the Milton Fine Foundation, Artists Image Resource initiated an AIR Resident project with William Fick. During the course of the project Mr. Fick explored a number of ideas and processes including relief etching, letterpress and screenprinting.
After a number of initial experiments with AIR’s crew, Bill settled on the creation of a number of small letterpress coloring books, a number of larger hand colored screenprints depicting the various characters from the coloring books, and some large scale hand colored screenprinted heads.
During Bill’s time at AIR we also executed a large installation in AIR’s screenprinting garage printing the large format heads from the prints onto the floor of the garage. This installation remained on the garage floor for a number of years.
Printers
Robert Beckman, Ian Short, William Rodgers, Matthew Forrest
About William Fick
Bill Fick is a printmaker who lives and works in Durham, North Carolina. He is currently a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies. Over the past 25+ years he has exhibited his prints nationally and internationally and has taught at many institutions across the United States including the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill and Greensboro), Pratt Institute and Rutgers University. Fick’s work can be found in the collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; The New York Public Library and the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University.
In 1993 Fick was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and in 1995 a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship. Fick is also the director of Supergraphic Print Lab a creative art studio dedicated to the promotion of printed matter. Fick is also the Co-director of the Zine Machine Printed Matter Festival in Durham, NC. Fick is also a consultant for Speedball Art Products. Check out his Supergraphic Black Professional Relief Ink.
The second edition of my printmaking book (coauthored with Beth Grabowski) is now available. Its published by Laurence King, London. You can also find it on Amazon and other major online book sellers.
