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Alps, Glen
| Last Name: | Alps |
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| First Name: | Glen |
| Dates: |
*1914 (Date of Birth)
*1996 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | Glen Alps, born Loveland, Colorado 1914, died Seattle, Washington 1996 – Glen Alps was an innovative and experimental printmaker who throughout his career explored a variety of printmaking processes beyond the traditional, pushing and redefining the field. He is best known for developing a collage printmaking technique he labeled the collagraph. Objects are collaged onto a plate or other support and the resulting textured surface is then inked and printed. Though elements of collage were used in printmaking prior to Alps, he is most often misidentified as the inventor of the collagraph technique, as he extensively studied and formalized the process and was its foremost practitioner. In the 1970s he also experimented with burnt lacquer prints, a technique in which automotive lacquer was poured onto Masonite and then burned away to create a design. While artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School in 1988, he was introduced to vitreography, or glassplate printing. (page 86, “Best of the Northwest: Selected Works from the Tacoma Art Museum” Margaret E. Bullock and Rock Hushka, 2012) |
| Related Objects: |
4395.1 (Print, Screen, Chicken in the Box, 1947)
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