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Printmaking and the performing object: MFA Thesis - Printmaking
Rossi, Roberto
Rossi, Roberto
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Houssart, Emilie, De Armendi Sobrino, Aurora
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2025-05
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There were three objects on display in my thesis exhibit at the Dorsky Museum:
A Theater
A Book
A Cross between a Book and a Theater
After three years working the presses in the print studio at SUNY new Paltz, I have become
attuned to printmaking as a mediated process. The rollers, the press beds, the silkscreen
frames, the light tables have all been reminders that many phases separate the artist’s
intention from the finished product. Printmaking is a medium in the truest sense, I have found
– something that lies between the hand and the artwork – and the more time I have spent in
the studio, the more my focus has shifted away from the fine art image as an outcome and
towards printmaking itself as a technology. With this appreciation of printmaking not as an
autonomous art form but as a medium, I have chosen to direct its myriad capacities towards
developing a project in a domain not usually associated with fine art – puppet theater.