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Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado #2 |
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Exhibition: March 2 - May 3, 2013, COLLECTORS GUIDE ARTISTS, a group show celebrating the publication of the 2013 edition of Collectors Guide at Johnsons of Madrid Galleries of Fine & Fiber Art, Madrid, New Mexico Receptions Saturdays, March 2 and April 6, 1-5 p.m. |
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(t) 1-505-466-7665 (c) 1-505-660-4064 7 Monte Alto Court, Santa Fe, NM 87508 USA |
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Santa Fe photographer and printmaker Ford Robbins has been creating abstract visual imagery of the light, texture, mood, mystery, magic and spirit of contemporary New Mexico and American landscape for over 35 years. Robbins also maintains a commercial photographic practice providing film, digital, retouching, restoration and pre-press services to artists, writers, publishers, galleries, museums and the general public. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers. Robbins has exhibited extensively since 1983, most recently at the New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe; the Albuquerque Museum of Art & Culture; the Miller Museum of Art, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; and the Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico; as well as at numerous venues in Santa Fe, greater New Mexico and throughout the United States. He was honored by the selection of his work for inclusion in an exhibition of American landscape photography at the United States embassies in Asunción, Paraguay, and Muscat, Oman. The Legislature of the State of New Mexico has recognized Mr. Robbins with the inclusion of his work in the New Mexico State Capitol Art Collection. His work is also included in numerous private, museum, corporate, religious, and public collections. In September, 2009, Red Mountain Press released Robbins' first book of photographs, Connections A Visual Journal. If you are interested in looking at an abbreviated Resume and Artist's Statement, Click Here |
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Photography and printmaking continue to be my deep passions. I am in the midst of experimentation to move some of my images from silver to ink through the photopolymer grauvure process. Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which has been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph. The various steps to achieve a final print by this traditional process can be and are highly toxic. Photopolymere Gravure was developed to overcome the toxicity of the older photogravure process. PP Gravure starts with a film or digital image. If film, the image must be scanned to create a digital file. The digital file is then processed to create a well-balanced positive image. My method at this point is to apply an adjustment layer in Photoshop™ and print out the image as a positive on film. I then expose a steel-backed plate layered with a photosensitive emulsion on which I have placed the film positive to UV light, either the sun, or for consistency to a UV lamp housed in an exposure unit. The exposed plate is then washed in water, which develops the image. At this point I resume the old workflow by inking the plate, laying a piece of paper over it, and running it through a press. For more information, please visit photopolymergravure.com Gallery 1 displays the gravure imagery exhibited on the walls at the Johnsons Galleries in New Mexico Photographers last November-December. Gallery 2 displays a small current exhibition of my photographs at the Johnsons of Madrid Galleries of Fine & Fiber Art in Madrid, New Mexico March-April 2012. Images from my book "Connections: A Visual Journal" and purchase instructions are presented separately, here. Please Note: My studio is usually open daily. Call First. If you are visiting Santa Fe, please give us a call. We would love to visit with you. |
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(c) 2009-12 Ford Robbins. All Rights Reserved. |
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