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Goat Plateau by Dan Welden

$4,200.00

2022

Zinc etching, mixed media

39” x 32”

Learning to read a printing plate before inking, is like sensing the log before wielding the axe. So goes my act of creativity, being aware of what resonates in front of me and responding with marks, colors and textures.

Nearly a decade ago, Dan Welden discovered a stack of 11 oxidized, deteriorating zinc plates in an abandoned building. He pried apart the rusted plates, which produced mirror images of the corrosion on each. After observing nature’s design, he scribed and etched his own marks and lines, and printed them, front and back, to create 22 altogether in black ink. Honoring the theme of opposites he named the series Aesop’s Fables. Dan then created a colored hybrid series of the same images, augmented with acrylic, watercolor and crayon, as seen here.

2022

Zinc etching, mixed media

39” x 32”

Learning to read a printing plate before inking, is like sensing the log before wielding the axe. So goes my act of creativity, being aware of what resonates in front of me and responding with marks, colors and textures.

Nearly a decade ago, Dan Welden discovered a stack of 11 oxidized, deteriorating zinc plates in an abandoned building. He pried apart the rusted plates, which produced mirror images of the corrosion on each. After observing nature’s design, he scribed and etched his own marks and lines, and printed them, front and back, to create 22 altogether in black ink. Honoring the theme of opposites he named the series Aesop’s Fables. Dan then created a colored hybrid series of the same images, augmented with acrylic, watercolor and crayon, as seen here.

Dan Welden has been a pioneer of alternative printmaking since 1970. Nationally and internationally recognized master printmaker, he was the first artist to initiate Solarplate and waterbased monotype workshops, placing him squarely in the vanguard of healthy and safe creative practice. 

Welden is co-author of Printmaking in the Sun and producer of the film of the same title. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Lifetime Achievement recognition from A/E foundation; a Professor Emeritus award from the Escuela de Beas Artes in Cuzco, Peru, and most recently a Pollock/Krasner Grant. Ninety-three solo exhibitions into Welden’s career, the Cape Cod Museum of Art mounted a mammoth collaborative exhibition of his studio works on paper along with collaborations with Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith and Dan Flavin, to name but a few. He has been in 53 countries with numerous residencies including China, Belgium, New Zealand, Cuba and Peru.