Beth Howe & Clive McCarthy - Monument: Coding a Woodcut

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Beth Howe & Clive McCarthy, "Monument: Coding a Woodcut, Invitation"

Opening Reception Friday, June 23, 2017 at 7-9PM

Artist Talk by Beth Howe: Friday, June 23, 2017  at 6PM  

This project is a collaboration between printmaker Beth Howe and digital media artist and programmer, Clive McCarthy. Howe and McCarthy developed custom software to cut large-scale photographic woodcuts of monumental infrastructure and landscape features using a CNC milling machine. The woodcuts are then printed by hand on an etching press. The large relief prints of Monument: Coding a Woodcut pull together the ubiquitous contemporary tools of algorithms and machine tooling with the histories of woodcut printing. These methods of making are nodes in the same trajectory, following the human impulse to make and multiply images and text, to pass information and ideas to a larger potential audience at ever increasing speed.

Beth Howe’s practice investigates the built environment and how architecture affects and re ects the way we perceive and understand landscape. Her work involves printmaking, drawing, artist’s booksand multiples and she currently serves as Associate Professor in Print Media at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC.

Clive McCarthy was born in Upton Park, London and following his graduation from University of Salford, he worked in the semiconductor industry. His engineering work ranged from working in a wafer fab clean room to managing a chip and software development organization with 200 employees. His artwork invariably uses computers and he is based in San Francisco, CA. Beth and Clive have collaborated on combining code and relief printing since 2010.