Brad Brown

Third Drift 28-36

2003

Color monoprint In 2010 Kara Maria worked with Bud Shark on a series of monoprints at the studio in Holualoa, HI. Mylar stencils, hand cut by the artist, were inked in various col...

Color lithograph, Edition 25 Barbara Takenaga is a painter who made her first lithograph at Shark's in the summer of 2002. Her abstract works are full of repeated, obsessive mark ...

Nicole Dikon lives and works between Oahu and Mississippi. Her work spans various media and practices, including woodcut printmaking, writing poetry, making artist books, installing edible and native gardens, and more. Dikon views her practice as a means of grounding her perspective in the principles of ecology. Born on Maui in 1989, Dikon was raised all over the Americas. As she continues to follow a nomadic path, she grounds her art practice in whatever environment she finds herself. The key to her process lies in her attempt to mimic the cycles of a natural ecosystem. Everything in the studio has value; from the scraped-up ink to the paper scraps, they all have a function that is considered and reused in the system several times before they are reused again in the waste pile for rebirth. In doing so, each image, object, and place created serves as a portal to a right relationship with the natural world, one where we acknowledge our connectedness, not through an intelligent knowing, but a visceral and intuitive awareness. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Dikon went on to earn a master's in printmaking from Temple University...

This piece titled "Philly Street V" is an original piece by Alexis Nutini and is made from a woodcut and found object stencil monoprint. This piece measures 40"h x 29.5"w and ships u...