A 24 Hours: an Intaglio Record

Pecos Pryor & James Hapke

Two artists endured a performative drawing session onto a huge copper plate for 24 consecutive hours last fall.  The copper plate was set up like a table where the artist sat across from each other using drypoint, hard ground and acid, abrasives, and spit bite to etch portraits of one another below the surface of the plate, encouraging each other during the overnight, exhaustive session. Now two months later the plate will be printed on Constellation Studios huge etching press to reveal this experiential record. The guest artists will be proofing the plate and printing the week of January 22 – 25, pulling a limited edition. The public is invited to view this “big reveal” of the intaglio portraits on Tuesday January 23, 5:30 – 7.