I just updated my website with new illustration, print and publication work.
Check it out if you have a minute (click the links above)
Thanks folks!!
Sanya

Hello. I’ve been doing a thousand things lately so I’m really behind on updates. Hopefully I’ll get around to posting more often, but for now… here’s my first-ever wood relief print I recently made! I’m really excited about this way of printing, I can’t wait to explore it further! My friend, Liz Born, is an excellent teacher and introduced me to woodblock reliefs. She’s also an amazing artist and printmaker herself, so please check out her work!

This is a two-color reduction woodblock print. It’s titled, “Prophets of Tomorrow”, 7.5″ x 11.25″ on Stonehenge paper. Edition of 22.





print detail



here’s what inking a carved block of wood looks like

Just finished printing these weirdo holiday cards last week! If you’d like one, let me know, I might have some extra ones to send out.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Sanya

Been drawing quite a lot lately. Here’s one of the more finished ink drawings, eventually it will be screen printed in color. It’s about 8″ x 11″ or so. I’m printing some holiday cards to send out this year, hopefully I’ll have an image to post soon…

Earlier this year, Jeremy Smith (pen name: Onsmith) and I got together to make a nine-panel comic for the next issue of Lumpen Magazine. It’s due out soon so I don’t want to post the entire thing, but it’s pretty experimental in few ways:
1) this is our first collaboration together, ever; 2) we worked on every part of it, integrating the lines, and 3) it’s a semi-abstract sequence we came up with together. We worked back and forth, first with pencils, then ink. Neither of us knew what to expect, and we were both pretty blown away by how incredible the drawings turned out. It was so enjoyable working with someone as talented as Jeremy, and I hope we do more in the future.



Jeremy working on the pencils



inked pages






and a couple of the individual panels

Here’s a fun way to get some presents together and support a local print shop!
I have a few things in the show for sale, and there’s always tons of stuff to look at and take in. There’s snacks too.

Opening: Saturday and Sunday, Dec 3 – 4, from 11 am – 7 pm
At Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, located at 4642 N. Western Ave, Chicago IL
The show will be up through January 28th, 2012

Here’s my finished 2-color print for the Blaque Lyte Print Suite. The entire suite was screen printed by Chris Kerr and Paul Nudd as part of the “Blaque Lyte” exhibition at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, going on now through January 9th, 2012. Each edition includes nine 11″ x 15″ multicolor screen prints by participating artists, and all prints shine brightly and beautifully under black lights!
For more information, purchasing, and to view all other prints in the suite, visit Chris Kerr’s website

And a quick pencil study for one of the pieces I have in the Blaque Lyte show (see post below)

“Blaque Lyte presents the new and glowing artwork by over thirty international emerging and established artists. Curated by Chicago-based artists Paul Nudd and Chris Kerr, the exhibition explores the visual properties and strange effects of the black light by presenting artwork specifically intended to be seen under ultra violet rays.”



Poster by Hanna Andersson & Joakim Ojanen


Come check out the seriously wicked “Blaque Lyte” exhibit at Hyde Park Art Center! Thirty artists, black-light artwork, curated by Paul Nudd and Chris Kerr. The show’s been up since Oct 2nd, with the official opening on the 29th. I’ve seen it and it’s truly stunning.

Opening reception: Saturday, Oct 29, 5 pm – 8 pm
Exhibition dates: Oct 2, 2011 – Jan 9, 2012
Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S Cornell Ave
Gallery 2 & 5

I feel incredibly lucky to be showing with these amazing folks!

Benton Moss, Thomas Mazzarella, David Shrigley, DeeDee Scacci, Keith Herzik, Nick Black, Mike Andrews, Lilli Carre, Giselind Von Wurmb, Evah Fan, Seth Scriver, Leif Goldberg, Marie Rosen, Eric Lebofsky, Paintallica, Andy Burkholder, Mariano Chavez, Edie Fake, Onsmith, Ben Stone, Sanya Glisic, Kristen Romaniszak, Laurent Impeduglia, Geoffrey Todd Smith, Brandon Heuser, Joakim Ojanen, Hanna Andersson, Anya Davidson, Nicole Northway, Max Morris

Newcity reviewed the show, read it here…

As did the Chicago Reader

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Alongside “Blaque Lyte” is the Keith Herzik retrospective, titled “There Are Still Lofty Dreams, Meager Desires and Still Silliness.” Herzik’s work is just mindblowing, with over 350 pieces ranging from screenprinted posters, paintings, random doodles, scraps of notes, weird-ass awesome drawings, and so on… Here’s a snapshot I stole from his blog.

Been way too busy to update but here’s some new stuff.
I just finished these about a week ago. The original drawings were done with quill pens and ink. These are two-color screenprints on grey French cover stock. Each one is 6.25 in. x 9.5 in., in varied editions. There’s six of them in the set, and they’re available through my etsy site

A couple detail views: