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left: water color and woodcut print on Rives BFK | 11″ x 24″
right: glass and oak | 16″ x 28″ x 6.5″ (closed) | 32″ x 28″ x 6.5″ (open)
Kirk Waldroff, a DC-based printmaker and sculptor, uses traditional woodcut techniques to create non-traditional prints in glass, concrete and on paper. His mixed media works depict invented saints and never-told fables.
Kirk’s work was featured in the international exhibition of glass artwork, “Glass 3” in Georgetown in 2008, where he exhibited his beautiful technique that combines printmaking and sculptural glass. Kirk has a solo show of his glass woodcuts at NOVA’s Waddell Gallery opening Jan 11 titled: Saints and Fables: Prints and Print-based Sculpture
Saint Funiculus | 2009
left: woodcut on unryu | 3.5″ x 24″ | edition of three
middle: glass, oak, flourescent lighting | 9″ x 30″ x 6″
right: concrete, grout, gold leaf | 3.5″ x 24″
Theodulus and the Egret | 2009
left: water color and woodcut print on Rives BFK | 11″ x 24″
right: glass and oak | 16″ x 28″ x 6.5″ (closed) | 32″ x 28″ x 6.5″ (open)
From Kirk Waldroff’s artist statement:
I draw great inspiration from art that I consider beautifully melancholy and aim to make pieces that are at once dark, humorous, and thought-provoking. I often draw upon religious imagery and enjoy employing social and historical themes as well.
Since the beginning of my education in art, I have been most attracted to printmaking. I enjoy the methodology as well as the very tactile link to the past this medium provides. In addition, printmaking is uniquely poised to integrate and borrow from new technologies and methods. My most recent glass and concrete cast-prints blend the traditional art of woodblock printing with innovative techniques in sculptural casting and are certainly the only of their kind.
Saint Cuspis | 2009
left: woodcut on unryu | 3.5″ x 24″ | edition of three
middle: glass, oak, flourescent lighting | 9″ x 30″ x 6″
right: concrete, grout, gold leaf | 3.5″ x 24″
detail of Kirk’s glass woodcut technique
Candy for Sachiko | 2009
left: woodcut print on Rives BFK | edition of one | 7″ x 32″
right: glass and oak | 11″ x 36″ x 6.5″ (closed) | 22″ x 36″ x 6.5″ (open)
Saints and Fables
Prints and Print-based Sculpture
January 11 – February 12, 2010
Waddell Art Gallery
Northern Virginia Community College
1000 Harry Flood Byrd Highway
Sterling, VA 20164 (google map)
Sculpture NOW 2010
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For the WSG show, Ryan has chosen artworks that use non-traditional materials, explore layering and decentered compositions and reflect our information-driven society.
Our Washington Glass School director, Erwin Timmers has work selected to be featured in the show.Please join us on opening night and to see the latest works of DC sculptors: Karen Bondarchuk, Leah Frankel, Kerry Furlani, Tom Greaves, Jason Haber, Ray Hau, Leila Holtsman, James Mallos, Bill Moore, Elena Patino, Mike Shaffer, John Simpkins-Camp, Erwin Timmers, Patricia Tinajero, Elizabeth Whiteley, and Alice Yutzy.
When: Friday, January 5, 2010, 6-8pm
Where: Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery
702 8th St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Washington Sculptors Group, founded in 1984, promotes an awareness and an understanding of sculpture and fosters the exchange of ideas among sculptors, collectors and the general public. For more information on WSG, click HERE.