Sanya Glisic

Illustration for The Harold Washington Literary Award

Sanya — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:27:33 +0000

This is the illustration I did for The Harold Washington Literary Award reception dinner. Organized by Near South Planning Board (NSPB), the event celebrates this year’s literary award recipient.

Relief Printing

Sanya — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:29:40 +0000

This is a long overdue update on the printing I’ve been doing over at Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
Not too long ago, I started making woodcut relief prints for the first time. I enjoyed the process so much that I wanted to expand on it and do a series… so I ended up writing a story and based the prints on it. When I finish, there will be ten prints and a story page (most likely screen printed). I’m still very new to relief printing, so it’s been a slow, learning process, but it’s exciting to see the prints come together.

detail of printed page (the physician)

block detail

prints drying

detail of block I’m currently carving

Cover for The Land Line Quarterly

Sanya — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:54:14 +0000

Here is the cover I did for the April 2012 Issue of The Land Line Quarterly, a new Chicago publication featuring lots of bizarre and wonderful essays, comics, interviews and such.
It’s exciting to have a new arts journal around town, and it has a great collection of contributors so I’m definitely looking forward to future issues. The paper has its own blog, with more info and other things.

Wheel of Life at the Rubin Museum of Art

Sanya — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:10:38 +0000

I’m happy to announce that I’ve been invited to participate in the “Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics” exhibit currently on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. The exhibit features an extensive collection of comics related to Tibet, ranging from 1940’s through present day.

In conjunction with the exhibition is a series called Karma-Con, for which eight artists and illustrators have been invited to visually interpret different segments of the Tibetan Wheel of Life. This is the part of the exhibit that I am participating in. The final wheel will be constructed from parts submitted by each artist, and ‘unveiled’ at the museum April 18th.

The Wheel of Life is a representation of Buddhist beliefs about life, death, rebirth… Beings are trapped in this cyclic existence, moving through with energy of past actions (karma).

Basically, life is a giant cracker consumed by a crazed mountain man:

I’ve been working on the Three Spiritual Poisons and The Dark and Light Path, at the center of the wheel… at the center of human suffering!!

Other participating artists include Molly Crabapple, Ben Granoff, Rodney Greenblat, Steven Guarnaccia, Michael Kupperman, Josh Neufeld and Katie Skelly.

Visit the museum’s Karma-Con page to learn more about this project. Should be a fun time!

I’m still working on the final, but here are a couple ’sneak peeks’:

Also a few process sketches:

Galactic rambling and more

Sanya — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:46:06 +0000

Some more of the woodblock prints I’ve been making… A few of these are currently up at Morpho Gallery, close to Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago. Check it out if you get a chance, it’s a fun group show based around relief printmaking, up through April.

“Galactic Drifter”, 2012, two-color reduction woodblock print on Stonehenge

and “Collapse”, one-color woodblock print on Stonehenge

Updated website!

Sanya — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:13:51 +0000

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

New Relief Print

Sanya — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:00:46 +0000

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

Happy Holidays!

Sanya — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:39:21 +0000

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

Porous heads

Sanya — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:18:17 +0000

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…

‘Gains and Losses’ Comic Collaboration with Onsmith

Sanya — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:42:16 +0000

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