For the month of November, Rumor Designs will feature printmaker Kristina Petrash. Join us to debut her new show, Fresh From The Ground: a new collection of watercolor monotypes, as well as her work with copper plate intaglio prints.
Where: r | d home 912 Lincoln Ave. Downtown Steamboat Springs, CO
When: First Friday Artwalk November 5th, 5-8pm
We offer complimentary sips & snacks from r | d home café
PLUS - don’t miss beautiful acoustic piano performed live by David Hingtgen.
Kristina Petrash is a printmaker based out of Steamboat Springs, CO.
Her work centers around nature and our relationship to it. Petrash loves to create layered images, marrying different printmaking processes to create new forms of visual communication. She often draws inspiration from her travels, incorporating the local flora and fauna.
Petrash creates all her work through the printing press using various techniques of printmaking. One of her main techniques is copper plate intaglio, or etching into copper with a needle.
“I fell in love with the process of intaglio immediately because it takes the depth of a pen or pencil drawings and makes the line even deeper and that much more rich.”
Petrash also enjoys creating different forms of monotypes, or one of a kind prints. She picks weeds and other flora growing in the area, inks them up and runs them through the press in interesting configurations.
“I still get excited when I pull a monotype print from the press. I have an idea of what it's going to look like but oftentimes there’s unexpected surprises from the plants or fabrics that make the entire piece that much more interesting. It’s magical!”
These prints are one of a kind because once the ink is stripped from the subject, it can never be recreated. Within the last year, Petrash has recently started using more watercolor in her monotypes. Influenced by the colors of the seasons, her gestural watercolors mixed with local flora create a variety of landscapes that all feel familiar.
“These landscapes are memories of how I felt in that time and the colors that were around me. They may not exist in real life but they do exist on an emotional plane.”
Kristina Petrash attained her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan in 2017. In 2018 she moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado where she started working at Oehme Graphics, a fine arts printmaking studio. Petrash has shown in a few Michigan galleries and around Steamboat Springs, including the W Gallery, the Barley, and the past two summers at Saturday Farmers Markets.
Website: kristina-petrash.com
Instagram: @kp.prints
For inquiries contact: kpetrash.art@gmail.com