Thrasher Wheat - copper to 11 2016 at Weill Hall in

2016 at Weill Hall in Rohnert Park

This marks the first time I've worked in portrait for this series of prints

24 x 32 – 5 color silkscreen – S/N edition of 200 – 2 transparent whites

The colors are metallic silver and gold but we added an additional step where the metallics are heat pressed onto the shirt

The primates here all stand

Thrasher Wheat - copper to 11 2016 at Weill Hall inFor me, there is no other animal that so dramatically symbolizes the West like a bison. I was surprised when I looked back thru my work that I'd only used the animal once before on a Neil Young print from 2011. My thought is that a lone bison has a weight, a gravity and a history unlike anything else I can think of. I've been experimenting lately with elaborate under printing textures that can be seen and are slightly raised thru the black ink on the