Cathy Cone
#seventeen, from Apparent Close-Up, 2022
Photogravure, 13.5 x 10 image
Edition of 6 with 2 APs
Apparent Close-Up is a series of 23 photogravures produced during a collaborative residency at Tusen Takk with my partner, master printer Jon Cone in November 2022. This portrait series began as a poetic inquiry using the portrait as a two-way portal. The veiling of the subject is a way of unveiling, using stitching and marking in a layered self-revelatory image. I've been chasing after the portrait as a way to fuse past and present.
ARTIST BIOS
Cathy Cone is a photographer and painter. Her surrealist approach to photography began in the late 1970s with the introduction of the "Diana" camera. This led to investigation of experimental techniques toward a multidisciplinary approach to her poetic image-making. Cathy received her training at Ohio University, Vermont Studio Center. She received her MFA at the Maine Media College. Some of her exhibitions include Weisman Art Museum, University of Alabama, DeCordova Museum, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Vermont Center for Photography. Her works are in the collection of IBM, Hallmark Fine Art Collections, American Express, and the Beekman a Thompson Hotel, New York. Cathy with her husband, master printer Jon Cone, founded Cone Editions Press in 1980 in Port Chester, NY as a collaborative printmaking workshop. Cone Editions Press is now located in East Topsham, Vermont where Cathy is director of the Workshops and Studio.
Currently living and working in Vermont, Jon Cone is a Master Printer, photographer, developer of technology, and educator. He and his wife Cathy Cone, founded Cone Editions Press in 1980. By the early 1990s, Cone would develop the first archival inkjet inks and much of the inkjet technology that is taken for granted today. Over a period of more than four decades, Cone has collaborated with hundreds of artists including Norman Bluhm, Stanley Boxer, Wolf Kahn, Willy Heeks, and David Humprey. At the same time, Cone has shared his technologies with countless other studios and privateers who use the inks, software and methodologies he develops and distributes via his project Inkjetmall. Today, he is revolutionizing the speed and precision of UV exposure systems for alternative printmaking processes.
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